Hulahoop’s seem like quite an innocuous and fun type of exercise. Most of us have had a hula hoop when we were child. It was great fun trying to keep the hoop at waist level and preventing it from hitting the floor. Competitions with friends were great fun and great source of exercise.
But what happens when a middle-aged out of condition probably a good bit overweight person who hasn’t done any exercise in years tries to hulahoop?
I’ve seen a rash of interesting injuries from my clients caused by overenthusiastic hulahooping! The movements required to keep the hulahoop spinning requires good core and postural stability because while we’re rotating a lot of stress is placed on these muscles. Particularly a muscle called QL. This muscle enables us to laterally flex our spines and it’s a major player in keeping the spine stabilised and upright.
You can imagine what will happen when this out of condition persons QL is suddenly required to stabilise an overweight and unconditioned person once they start vigorously swinging their hips from side to side. I can tell you what will happen and that’s the muscle put under far too much strain can pull. This type of injury can be painful and difficult to treat and therefore heal.
Having fun whilst exercising is a great thing, in fact any sort of exercise can only benefit you but when exercising always bear in mind your current fitness level. If we’re not used to regular exercise we need to build up to something like hoola hooping slowly 
Remember if we injure ourselves we can’t exercise in fact we can’t even do our normal daily activities and this is going to hamper any weight loss goals we’ve set.
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