Can hula hooping help you lose weight?

Hula hooping can help you lose weight, but the effect may not always be obvious. Regular hula hooping can promote gastrointestinal motility and effectively prevent constipation. And hula hooping can also promote blood circulation in the body and improve qi and blood. It is best to play hula hooping one hour after a meal. You should not play hula hooping right after a meal. Next, let’s learn some knowledge about hula hoop!

Generally speaking, you should do 4-6 rotations per week, 2-3 sets each time, 20-30 minutes per set, with 20-30 minutes of rest in between, and usually no more than 45 minutes. Hula hooping is a whole-body exercise that can achieve the effect of weight loss, but the prerequisite is that the exercise time must be long enough. Because the intensity of hula hooping is not actually very strong, only by appropriately extending the exercise time and continuous activity can you reach the stage of aerobic exercise, and only in this way can you consume the body's stored fat and excess calories.

Many people think that it is better to choose a heavy hula hoop, so that they can use more force and get rid of more fat. In fact, the key lies in the individual's physique and body shape. If you have a weak constitution, a small body, and choose a heavier hula hoop, you will have to exert a lot of strength when you start swinging it, which will become a strenuous exercise for you. But if your time is not long enough, such short and intense exercise is just anaerobic exercise, you will only feel soreness all over your body, but it will not have the effect of losing weight. Moreover, if the hula hoop is too heavy, it will hit the internal organs in the abdomen and back with great force when it is swung, which may injure these parts. Therefore, it is recommended to choose a hula hoop with moderate weight.

Waist rotation exercises are of medium intensity. Teenagers, people with poor waist and abdominal muscle strength, obese people, young men and women with more fat accumulated in the waist, and people with a larger waist circumference ratio measured by physical fitness can all use hula hooping to lose weight. However, it should be used with caution in children, the elderly, and patients with lumbar bone hyperplasia and lumbar disc herniation. It should not be used by patients with hypertension or heart disease.

Since hula hooping mainly involves waist exercise, it is best to warm up before exercising to avoid spraining the waist. The best position for the hula hoop to rotate is between the chest and waist, so it is less likely to get injured. Women who are menstruating or want to regain their figure a few months after giving birth should never touch the hula hoop.