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Pregnant women can hula hoop!

I found this pretty impressive video on You Tube of a woman hooping at 35 weeks pregnant and Hoopnotica (where I got my portable hoop) makes a lightweight Prego-O Hoop, which was developed by the

Summarizer

August's Shape: Hula Hoops and Compression Suits

For the minimum number of calories you should eat a day, multiply your goal weight by 10. Marisa Tomei hoops for 20 minutes in the morning just to get her blood flowing. Eat lean beef and leafy greens to help fight dandruff. You should gently exfoliate every day. Say "yes" to cheese and you'll have better sex tonight. If you eat an Uno's personal deep dish cheese pizza, you'll have to jump rope for three hours to burn it off. If you sleep in a compression suit, your muscles will repair faster. Ashley Greene (Alice from Twilight) does martial arts (and looks significantly paler than she did in Women's Health). Goat's milk ice cream has one-third the fat and half the calories of cow's milk ice cream. Take your vitamin D supplements with a meal for better absorption. Olympian Dara Torres switched from heavy weights to doing everything on a Bosu or stability ball and says it completely changed her body. If you're in your 20s, you should eat lots of almonds, parmesan cheese, apples, lentils, and shrimp. 30's: broccoli and dark chocolate. 40s: mushrooms and sardines. If you're not wearing stripes this summer, you're missing out. 

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hooping and the process of healing

Cut early from rehearsal, I went to join sixteen or so people spinning away under the almost full moon as it reflected off the Inwood Hill Park salt marsh, a postcard complete with the Henry Hudson Bridge in the background.  My heart hurts right now and my head feels far away - about as far away as that moon - but I found communion in

Hoop Dreams

How You Know Hula-Hooping Is Taking Over America

Perhaps you've missed the hula hoop trend, but it's fast becoming unmissable. Cases in point:

1. Marissa Tomei's hula hoop workout video hit the market in May. 
2. von Hottie's weekend pool workout, which involves a hula hoop and a floating raft, is utterly irresistible and will soon be adopted by pool-goers nationwide.
3. Today's Wall Street Journal "What's Your Workout?" feature highlights a hotel executive who hula hoops to stay fit. Once people who spend their days in pant suits are hula-hooping, it's officially past the "early adopter" stage.

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your friendly neighborhood coffee oscillator

40 minutes of walking through Ft. Tryon Park and 90 minutes of hula hooping outside of the annual flea market at Inwood's RING garden in upper Manhattan today.  Lots of fun chatting it up with my neighbors and playing with a couple of the local kids.  One of the guys was sweet enough to bring us some coffee which I then held and drank as I hooped. 

Mother of Demand

Mom and the D.I.Y. Hula Hoop

Heartwarming: A New York mom and teenage son make and sell hula hoops to pay for his summer school. For each $20 hoop they sell, they give one away free to local kids. Entrepreneurial initiative, philanthropy, and hula! If you live near Inwood Park, and are looking for a hoop, go here. Otherwise, you might just consider making your own hoop with a bit of irrigation hose and duct tape....

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weekend warrior

Free time for workouts has been hard to come by this week and I know I've been scarce.  My theatre company opened a new play, Noah's Arkansas, to terrific reviews this past week and I've had my hands full with front of house duties and curating an exhibit of Arkansas landscape

Noon Stretch

Hoopy Loopy

"Hula hooping in Inwood Hill Park. Cool & cloudy, sprinkling, and yet...we hoop!" — zuzupetals, today, 10:04 A.M.

Newslinks

Hula Hooping Gets All Spiritual

So remember how we told you Marissa Tomei is coming out with a new Hula Hooping DVD and all the Hula Hoopers are hoping she's going to take them mainstream? Well, she's all about the fun factor. "You just can’t help but laugh and smile when you’re hooping," is Tomei's explanation for why she loves a good hoop workout. But that's not the only angle. 

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hula hooping in Inwood Hill Park

In spite of a still-sour stomach from last night's debauchery at Rodeo Bar, it looked like a gorgeous day outside.  After I rolled over and checked my Twitter feed, I knew I had no choice but to head up to Inwood Hill Park and meet about 10 of my buddies from the neighborhood for an impromptu hula hoop gathering this morning.  (If you really want a l