You guys asked for something different, so I’m going to post for 28 days a different thing for you guys to do for 10 minutes. If you’re active for the 28 days and you share with me in some form or fashion there will be a prize at the end. If you’re sharing on your social media make sure to tag #dragonhooper or @dragonhooper.
Day 1: Hoop for 10 minutes on your waist ONLY, make sure you both directions, put on your favorite music and make it fun. See if you can get your arms and legs involved. You’ll be surprised how good you will feel by the end of the 10 minutes. Here is my video, surprisingly that is 10 minutes. https://photos.app.goo.gl/jLMkyv9uZXvRUEmc6
Day 2: Welcome to day two. Goal today is to hoop for 10 minutes total, make sure you do both directions. The hoop can be anywhere on your body waist, hips, chest, shoulders, legs but make sure you do both directions. The challenge is incorporating some light weights at the same time or you can just use your arms to do the movements. Do some biceps, triceps, creative and with movements to strengthen. Add some squats. This is going to warm up the entire body. Good luck and have fun. https://photos.app.goo.gl/7hXTK9gK6emtapTa9
Day 3: Great job & keep it up. Next challenge is shoulder hooping in both directions 10 minutes if you can. Want more of a challenge? Do it without turning or do it with an angle to the earth or sky. 🤗
Day 4: today we are going to do 5 minutes in one direction and 5 minutes in the other direction. You can do whatever you want just to shoulder hooping, waist, leg hooping mix it up, but 5 minutes total in one and 5 minutes total in the other. Pick some music that you like. Inflow is your first direction which is your easier direction and outflow is your harder direction.
Day 5: you made it you made it. Start with your hoop on your waist, bring it to your hips, do a little dip and bump and bring it back up. And slowly drop that hoop to your legs. We’re going to try it on our legs see how that goes if you feel confident try the other direction. Even if you don’t feel confident, try the other direction. You have 10 minutes. Keep the hoop off of your kneecaps. Have fun with it, enjoy and get stronger. If you need to cheat which it’s not cheating you can skip all of that and just bring it straight to the middle of your hamstring and start. Remember feet completely, together legs together. If you want to add an extra challenge for yourself because you’re really good at leg hooping get some small weights and lift weights while you do it. If you’re really really good at lake hoping to the whole thing in your non-dominant direction.
Day6: fun free Friday turn the music up and move your body how you want. Whatever you do make sure you do both directions whether it’s on body or off body. Maybe try something new maybe try to stand on one foot but all in all be free.
day: 7&8 turn your favorite music on get a good on body hoop. I want you to shift from your left foot to your right foot and maybe taking that foot completely off of the ground and then placing it back on the ground and then shifting your weight to the other foot. You could also go into tree pose. You can lift that hoop on and off your body the favorite way you like to take the hoop off, also getting on one leg. Balance is really important. Be careful make sure to warm up first. All in all have fun and see if you can do this for 10 minutes.
Day 9: today we are doing vertical hooping, I usually call it angle hooping. Earth angle is to the Earth-down and sky angle is to the sky–up. Going from the horizontal, start bending your knees keeping your posture up to get the tilt and then when you want to bring it back to the horizontal stop bending your knees and then start bringing your pelvis up to the sky, I call this the Steve urkel and your arms and your energy up to the sky. Do both directions 10 minutes if you can total, make sure you warm up first, maybe some cat cows to loosen the back, some shoulder rolls some neck rolls. It can all be a part of your 10 minutes. With angle hooping there’s a lot of bounce in the feet and the legs it’s not the back. If you are feel really good in this, you can bring it to your shoulders and your chest and also do the same exact thing. If you’re really tall, you could probably do it on your legs but you guys know that I’m not super tall. Have fun enjoy and congrats to making it this far.
Day:10 this one may be challenging, don’t stress yourself. We’re going to be doing duck outs. You can duck out with your arm, your elbow or completely just duck out on your shoulder. Having a tank top on with your shoulder exposed is going to be really helpful if you don’t have the super duper grip tape. Warming up your shoulders and neck is going to be really important beforehand as well. I’m going to be making a video to demonstrate for those that are clueless. I also probably have classes for sale on this if you’re interested. Do as best as you can. Great job y’all.
Day 11: man you’ve made it far. 🤗 Today we are going to start with the hoop in a horizontal hand spin above the body and play with it, get creative take your time, you might have to use something that’s not super heavy but something big enough that you can use on your core. Now bring the hoop down either to your neck ,your chest ,your shoulders, your waist or your legs and just enjoy and then lift it back up. I want you to play with different ways lifting the hoop on and off your body, there’s a lot of different ways, get creative. If you start getting momentum and you’re lifting the hoop up from the back and switching it to your hands up above and then as you bring the hoop down immediately grab from the back again and continue to do that without it actually touching your body that is the vortex. Don’t think too hard about it have fun enjoy.
Day 12: if you’ve been taking my classes we’ve been working on breaks, paddles and tonight in class we’re going to be combining them but you can play with them on your shoulders, chest ,waist or legs. These take a lot of practice and dedication. Have fun and when you do these it makes you go in both directions which will increase your strength for your inflow and your outflow. Start small and let it build slowly. One thing to remember with the paddles is your hand is hitting the inside of the hoop with a very light tap. Have fun and you guys are doing great. https://photos.app.goo.gl/1P5VfeCAYx1gduaVA
Day 13: so today I went walking with my friend and hoop walked at the same time either on my waist, shoulders ,chest, legs, angles or off body. I had some booty music playing at the same time it was really fun. That is your visual. Some of you guys live in really cold climates so you’ll probably have to do this inside and get creative. Move a couch and make space so you can pick up those legs and walk or squat but get the legs engaged. If you don’t have a lot of room do what you can. If you’re able to get outside get outside and walk. Have fun with it. Happy Friday.
Day 14 and 15, Saturday and Sunday and Happy Valentine’s Day. I’m all about self-love. If you celebrate this holiday or if you don’t still do something for yourself, do something that feels good for you. Move your body with intention to your favorite music on or off body, one hoop, two hoops, three hoops, four Hoops, however you wish to do for the weekend. Release all that stress and tension and bring in all of the happiness.
Day 16: feels good to move your body right?! Today I want us to focus on off body. Don’t let that limit you though, if you want to throw it on your body while you’re in your jam put it where you want, but let’s think about weaves, also figure eights (same movement. We can do forward ones reverse ones, portals doubles. Get creative. Surprisingly there’s more ways to do weaves than I even can comprehend so sharing the group share on your Instagram I want to see it.
Day 17: think weaves to isolations to Mandela’s for today. Both hands both directions. Have fun. You guys are doing great.
Day 18 &19 congrats you’ve made it this far. For the next 2 days I want you to turn on your favorite music and let yourself go and flow, that is where you grow, this is where you unlock, this is where you mess up, this is where you create. Turn the brain off and just play. Play like a child. Don’t worry about if it looks good.
day 20: today we’re going to be focusing on walking the dog and spinning the hoop on the ground. Think of playing with your body and making magic with the hoop. Get creative. Get creative how you grab the hoop when it’s coming back to you from walking the dog. Get creative with your legs and lifting it over the hoop while it’s spinning. Maybe you catch the hoop in an isolation or catch it on your foot. Walk that dog and spin that hoop. See if you can squeeze in 10 minutes. As always make sure to warm up. If these are movements that you do and you feel comfortable in your inflow try your outflow. Enjoy yourself have fun don’t think and happy Friday.
day 21 day 22 Saturday and Sunday: have fun tossing the hoop you might not have a lot of ceiling space so you may have to get creative and not toss too high but there’s a lot of different ways to toss, you can also toss under your legs, under your arms, under your neck. You can toss the hoop into the air and catch it on your foot. You can also do a pizza toss. See if you can squeeze in 10 minutes. As always make sure to warm up. If these are movements that you do and you feel comfortable in your inflow try your outflow. Have fun get creative enjoy the weekend.
Day 23: Happy Monday! So proud of everyone. Think isolations, both hands, both directions, inside isolation, outside isolation. Think everything vertical, hand spins, Mandela’s, anti-spins, full sun. Also feel free to bring it on and off the body. Want to add a little extra, use two hoops. Have fun.
Day 24: You made it. Today we’re going to focus on escalators up and down. Play with them. There is 9 million ways to do them. Play with getting in and out of them, mixing them in with your flow. Have fun.
Day 25: pick some of your favorite moves throw them into your flow and make sure to do both directions for 10 minutes.
Day 26 posting a day early because I forgot to post today until the evening. If this is confusing anyone. Write down or mentally right down five of your favorite moves create a combo don’t think too hard about it. Do both directions. Have fun get sweaty.
Day 27: all business do in your opposite direction. This may take some brain power, might be a little frustrated but it’s important to do both sides. You have made it to the end.
Day 28 congratulations you have made it to the last day of the challenge. Please reach out to me if you feel that you did every day or close to almost doing everyday. Today celebrate the movement that you got the best at during the 28 days & just enjoy. Celebrate your body & the amazing things it can do.