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In this series, Surprising Ways to Slash 500 Calories, we discuss a variety of ways you can easily eliminate 500 calories from your daily routine resulting in an easy weight loss of one pound per week. You may not even think these food or beverage items “count”, but they do. Our job is to help you in your weight loss goals and even if you were to burn one less calorie day; it would add up over time.
Hoola hooping, fun activity that has been around for centuries, can be your new way to unlock the door to your fat loss goals. Originialy used by the ancient Greeks, hula hooping has evolved into a total weight loss activity. There are weighted hoops available in a variety of weights and sizes so you can custom tailor your workouts. Not only can you burn tons of calories with this fun form of fitness, but you can also tone and tighten as it is very intensive on the lower half of your body.
Weighted hoops are surprisingly easier to get going than the traditional hoops of your childhood, and instruction can easily be found at Hoopnotica.com. Practice eventually will make perfect like any other activity you try, and then you can proceed to being a master hula-hooper and burn tons of calories every day! Average calorie burn for an hour of hooping would be 500 calories, according to both Hoopnotica.com and Hooping.org. Hooping with weighted hoops, several hoops, or doing vigorous hooping will crank up the amount of calories you burn!
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