Tonight I began my new fad in work outs, Hula Hooping, and I sucked!!! Unlike my past fads, Can-Can and Double Dutch, I am not taking to this quickly. It makes sense I was a natural at Can-Can because of all the years of ballet. But I had about the same amount of experience of doing both hula hooping and double Dutch, that being on a playground from the ages of 6-12, and none since. People tend to think double Dutch is hard, but we were all jumping two ropes within the first 30 min. However, tonight at Hoop Girls I couldn't even keep my hoop up by the end of class.
My body is battered, and I suspect I will see bruises tomorrow. The good news is I worked up a sweat and used that part of my brain which I don't use at work. I don't know what it's called, but I experienced it a lot in double dutch, trying to figure out how to make your body do new things in a rhythmic routine. I don't give up easily and I came home with my very own brand new hula hoop. Now I can spend my evenings hooping when I would have been munching.
I have to mention that the class was surprisingly hippy-dippy. At the beginning to warm up, we walk, skip, shuffle, dance around in a circle and move our hoop around. At the end, that's when it gets hippy. We make another circle, hold our hoops our parallel to the floor and walk to the middle until the hoops make a giant vase. Then we each say what we are grateful for getting out of the class that night, and throw those good wishes into the hoop vase. Finally we all lift our hoops into the sky, back away, and make a blossoming hoop flower. Ahhh.
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