Hula hoop whose name is taken from the Hawaiian hula dance became popular in the 1950s when Alex Tolmer sell these plastic circle in shopping centers.
"Sports hula hoops can burn up to 600 calories per one-hour exercise," says Christabel Zamor a teacher hula hoops and CEO of HoopGirl Inc. quoted from ABCNews, Saturday (26/9/2009).
Exercise hula hoops would be better if done while listening to music. Practicing hula hoops while listening to music can give you motivation to burn calories, strengthen the heart rhythm, making a flat stomach and strengthen the spine.
Sports can do to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes by doing the twist is equivalent to walking at moderate speeds. Besides this movement also gave emphasis on sports or abdominal muscles, and can reduce the incidence of back pain and injury.
Other benefits can be obtained from the hula hoop exercise is to create a flat stomach and help shape six pack stomach that many desirable people.
Although the movement only hula hoops spinning around in the mid part of the stomach, you should still do some exercises that right. Or it could also exercise classes that provide exercise hula hoops, so they can practice a lot of movement and get more maximum.
The important thing to do is adjust the size of the body with a circle of the hula hoop itself. Smaller circle will be more difficult for beginners to do the twist more rapidly. Hula hoop smaller also provides greater pressure and makes the stomach sick. Should adjust the size of hula hoops that are not too small or too big.
