Can I hula hoop while menstruating?

Hula hooping can be a good exercise, especially for women, who often suffer from obesity. Hula hooping can be used as a method of weight loss. Although it is slow, it is safe and effective. However, women have a few inconvenient days every month, which we often call the menstrual period. Everyone's physical condition is different, and various physical discomfort symptoms may occur during menstruation. So can I hula hoop while I’m menstruating?

It is okay to hula hoop moderately, but not excessively. This is beneficial to your health. Hula hooping is a long and continuous exercise, which reaches the stage of aerobic exercise and can consume stored fat and excess calories in the body.

It is recommended that girls who are really unwell should not forward this post, and girls who want to lose weight should do so in the later stages of their menstrual period.

How long does it take to achieve fitness results?

Generally speaking, hula hooping should be done 4-6 times a week, 2-3 sets each time, 20-30 minutes per set, with 20-30 minutes rest in between. It usually does not exceed 45 minutes. Hula hooping is a whole-body exercise that can achieve the effect of weight loss, but the prerequisite is that the exercise time must be long enough.

Benefits of hula hooping:

1. It can slim the waist, help intestinal peristalsis, promote gastrointestinal digestion, and also help smooth bowel movements.

2. To treat constipation, frequently use a spring hula hoop and wrap it around your waist. It can stimulate the intestines and treat constipation. Notes on hula hooping:

1. People with lumbar muscle strain or calcium deficiency are not suitable for hula hooping to lose weight

Hula hoop waist slimming exercise is a moderate intensity waist slimming exercise suitable for teenagers, people with poor waist and abdominal muscle strength, obese middle-aged people, young men and women with more fat accumulated around the waist, and people with a larger waist circumference ratio measured by physical fitness. However, it should be used with caution in children and the elderly. It is not suitable for patients with lumbar bone hyperplasia, lumbar disc herniation, as well as those with hypertension and heart disease.

2. In addition, it is not suitable to be performed within 1 hour before or after meals.

3. In addition, before hula hooping, you should do some stretching exercises to stretch your ligaments and avoid sprains.

Is a heavier hula hoop more effective?

It does not mean that the heavier the hula hoop, the better the waist slimming effect. If you have a poor physical condition and a small body, and you choose a heavy hula hoop, you will have to exert a lot of strength when you start swinging it, which will become a strenuous exercise and cause unnecessary trouble to your body. For example, the force of hitting the internal organs in the abdomen and back when swinging is relatively strong. It is recommended to use a hula hoop of moderate weight.

Recommended exercises suitable for menstruation: yoga, aerobic dance, jogging, etc.

Although hula hooping is not a very intense exercise, girls who want to lose weight around their waists should still make choices based on their own physical conditions. If they do it when they are not feeling well, it will do more harm than good.