Hula hoops for fertility? Not just for kids, hooping can enhance your baby-making potential and keep you fit during pregnancy.
Hula hooping, made popular in the 1950's, is making a comeback, but not just among little girls. Today grown adults are swinging hoops for fun and fitness. This joyful exercise is especially great for women's health. For those trying to conceive, hula hoops for fertility can optimize energy and blood flow through the hips and pelvis. Even for pregnant mamas- with the bump and all – hooping can be a fun, effective, and safe way to stay fit and feel great.
Female energy is characterized by a round, cyclical nature, and hula hoping is a terrific compliment to femininity. In a modern world where women take on masculine roles in the workplace, home, and even the way we exercise, the comeback of activities such as belly dancing, hula hooping, and even pole dancing offers women ways to express their feminine nature through expressive, empowering movement.
Hooping is an easy and fun low-impact exercise. In addition to the usual pros of working out, including improved strength, flexibility, endurance, and metabolism, hula hooping improves mobility in the spine whilst delivering a therapeutic massage to abdominal organs. Most importantly, hooping is a great way to unwind and have fun. The playful nature of hula hoops helps to transform stress and add years to our lives.
Getting started with hula hoops for fertility
Hoops are widely available online in bold and sparkly colors. Be sure to get the right size hoop… A kid's hoop (found commonly at toy stores) will not work for grown-ups!
As a beginner, be patient! In the beginning the hoop may be falling to the floor more than spinning round in circles, but with a bit of practice you'll be hooping like a pro!
Hoopnotica sells a special light-weight hoop, called the “Prego-O” for pregnant women as well as an instruction manual on how to hoop while pregnant. This company, founded by new mom and fabulous hoopess, Rayna, also offers classes in Los Angeles for anyone that wants to learn to hoop for better health.
photo credit: Brian Tomlinson
Love that you used the word “whilst” in a blog – way to class things up! I was always terrible at hula hooping but now I want to try again!
Hi Heather – Perhaps I will bring my hoops in November so we can hoop together whilst wearing bacon costumes. 😉
I’m pretty sure this is one of my most favorite things I’ve read in a long time. Love it. Man, I need a hula hoop! 🙂
Ahh! My hooping world and health world is colliding. I have been hooping for 2 and 1/2 years, and it definitely helped me even in just feeling connected and proud of my body during my struggles with infertility. I think overall acupuncture helped me more than the hoops as far as GETTING pregnant, but I am now 8 weeks, and I am hooping all the way through, likely will still be spinning during labour, lol.
I love that you mentioned belly dancing and pole dancing too! I’ve only hooped a few times (to the near constant clatter of a dropped hoop!) but I began belly dancing as a way to get fit after my first pregnancy. I danced all the way through my second pregnancy and I can assure you it was a much healthier, comfortable pregnancy! I have belly danced for years… and you can usually find me belly dancing in the kitchen when I’m making dinner!
I have been pole dancing for almost two years… and I cannot even begin to express the amazing feeling of being able to do some pole trick that you thought you weren’t strong enough to do.
I started belly dancing when I was twenty-one; it will be twenty years this fall! Dance and the like are so good for you. In my troupe, we’re all different sizes, but all of us long-time dancers look way younger than we are. (And it’s not plastic surgery!) Maybe it’s coincidence, but if so, it’s a big one! (I recently had to pull out my ID to prove to a group of ladies that I was indeed forty, not in my mid-twenties! And everyone is shocked to find out my instructor is almost fifty, and two of my troupe mates are almost sixty!)
I suck at hooping, but I try it again periodically. I hope to improve someday. 🙂