Most of y’all know I’m a desk jockey – I’m here at my computer most of the day, every day.\u00a0 Sure, I work out – hard –\u00a0on a regular basis, but I don’t believe in spending hours at the gym. I go there to get strong, not burn calories… thus, when my performance begins to deteriorate, it’s time to hang it up, go home and eat.\u00a0 All told, I don’t spend more than an hour\/day lifting; or doing combined cardio, ab work and stretches.<\/p>\n
But I keep active, nonetheless, by doing “mini-workouts” throughout the day.\u00a0 It’s no big deal to knock out a set of pushups on my push up bars or medicine ball; chin myself a few times using my door gym; knock out a set of 20 wall squats, or jump rope for a few minutes.\u00a0 It gets my blood moving, and breaks up the long hours of sitting, without interrupting my work schedule.<\/p>\n
As a consequence, I’m always on the look out for other low\u00a0tech, durable\u00a0“toys” I can use to expand my range of indoor activities.\u00a0 And this one\u00a0looks like\u00a0fun…<\/a><\/p>\n Truth is, when I planned this review of fitness hoops and attended a 90-minute hooping class in Santa Monica last Sunday, I did not know that hooping had become a giant fitness trend and that Marisa Tomei used it to get in shape for her role as a stripper in the Oscar-nominated film “The Wrestler.” But I can tell you that it is a smile-inducing, easy-yet-challenging, sweat-drenching, skill-building core workout for an uncoordinated male, and that when I woke up Monday morning I swear my gut had shrunk by an inch or two.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Like the author of the article, I haven’t\u00a0paid much attention to cardio fitness trends, as my focus is on lifting…but hey, better late than never, I guess.<\/p>\n