Researchers recorded heart rate (HR) and oxygen consumption (VO 2) at one-minute intervals during the 30-minute workout.
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Once they were comfortable with the workout, each participant donned a portable oxygen analyzer and a Polar heart-rate monitor while they hooped along to the exercise video at their own pace using a weighted hoop. The video featured a five-minute warm-up followed by a 30-minute hooping workout including seven different dances and a wide variety of choreography. Prior to actual testing, each participant was allowed to do two practice sessions using a 35-minute hooping workout video developed by Mary Pulak, founder of Hooked on Hooping, a group hooping exercise studio based in Green Bay, Wisc. To gauge the exercise intensity and calorie-burning potential of hula-hooping workouts, a team from the Exercise and Health Program at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, led by Holthusen and John Porcari, Ph.D., recruited 16 female volunteers between the ages of 16 and 59, all of whom were intermediate- to advanced-level hoopers. So in an effort to cut through all the hoopla and buzz about hooping, the American Council on Exercise enlisted Holthusen and her colleagues to study the activity’s potential cardio and calorie-burning benefits. These larger, heavier hoops rotate around the body more slowly, making it easier to hoop while potentially burning more calories and eliciting improved fitness benefits.Īlthough hooping has become something of a fitness craze and proponents promote the activity as a full-body workout capable of burning up to 600 calories per hour, “there has been no scientific literature to support the fitness benefits of hooping,” says Jordan Holthusen, M.S., an exercise researcher with the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Hoopers are now using hoops that are 37 to 45 inches in diameter and weigh 1 to 4 pounds.
These hooping classes generally incorporate a wide variety of hooping choreography and dance music into a fun and fast-paced group workout. Trendy gyms like Crunch and Equinox have incorporated hooping into Pilates and yoga classes, while hooping-specific classes and fitness studios are also blossoming around the country. Modern hooping started primarily as a form of dance expression using larger, weighted hula hoops, but in recent years it has found its way back into the fitness world. While most people think of the hula hoop as a children’s toy that was all the rage back in the 1950s, the history of hula hooping dates back thousands of years to Egypt and ancient Greece when hoops fashioned from grapevines were actually used for exercise. We’re talking about hooping, the modern evolution of the hula hoop.
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Patients who reported more sensitization to pain were more likely to experience unpredictable pain (OR, 1.08 95% CI, 1.00-1.18). Lower pain sensitization (ie, greater pressure pain threshold values) was found to be associated with lower ICOAP scores at the wrist (intermittent: b, -1.44 95% CI, -1.92 to -0.97 constant: b, -0.64 95% CI, -0.92 to -0.36 total: b, -1.08 95% CI, -1.40 to -0.76) and at the knee, and with constant +/- intermittent pain vs intermittent pain only (odds ratio, 0.80 95% CI, 0.68-0.93). Enhanced pain sensitization (ie, greater temporal summation) was found to be associated with higher ICOAP scores on the intermittent subscale (β estimates: intermittent, 0.54 95% CI, 0.03-1.04 constant, -0.03 95% CI, -0.38 to 0.31 total score, 0.28 95% CI, -0.08 to 0.63).