New Workout Routine Surfacing? Hula Hooping Takes Fitness World By Storm

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For those who are looking for a new workout routine this summer, hula hooping might be the answer.

The hula hoop, which has been used as a circus prop in the past, is making an official comeback as a workout tool that fitness experts say provides an effective cardio and even meditative workout, according to the Fiscal Times.

Circus hooper Marawa Ibrahum, also known as Marawa the Amazing, travels around the world performing and teaching hula hooping. She can spin 133 hoops simultaneously and has appeared on "Britain's Got Talent."

"Fitness hooping is what I'm really into. Even at circus school I developed a workout using core muscles to push the hoop," stated Ibrahum.

Hula hooping is the new workout routine that is fit for any age or fitness level, as long as the right size hoop is used, according to Reuters.

"You can't hoop with a kid's hoop. When you were a kid you were half as tall. I used to teach a gym class of overweight women. I made hoops that were almost up to their armpits and they could do it," explained the 32-year-old Australian.

Hula hooping can go beyond the benefits of a new workout routine. Kelly Strycker, the director of Chicago Hoop Dance, practices hooping as a form of moving mediation similar to Yoga, or Chi-gong, the Chinese system of exercise and breath control.

"There definitely is a circus overlay in hoop dance. It tends to be a fitness workout because of the nature of the movement," said Strycker.

She added, "The meditation aspect is in the rhythm, the rocking movement that stimulates the heartbeat, the back and forth."

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