CEDAR FALLS — Breanna Parker has turned her passion for hula hooping into a way to help others get in shape and to try and build a hula hooping community in the Cedar Valley. “It’s been good,” said ...

Mona Sevilla just dropped her hula hoop. Again. On the final night of a six-week fitness class, Sevilla, 44, has learned to twirl the hoop around her waist and chest and dance with it, twirling the ...

Team Evening tried out a hula hoop class with Susan Chase. She’s a real estate agent now, but when we first met Susan she was teaching fitness classes using specially weighted hula hoops. She no ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a new-school workout using an old-school toy. Hula fitness is a group class that uses a hula hoop. Utilizing dance and different flow maneuvers with the hoop, participants ...

The first 4-6 weeks will focus on learning and expanding on beginner tricks and combinations. The last 2-4 weeks we will learn choreography to music. Variations on tricks will be assigned to heighten ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you remember hula hooping when you were a kid? It was so much fun it never seemed like 'exercise.' But to do it now? Really?

Though the true origins of the toy hoop are unknown --Egypt?China? -- the hula hoop made its way into millions of American toy boxes in the 1950s and '60s. Now, the children and grandchildren of those ...