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Want a very cheap workout to do that's floor-based, high intensity, and requires just a good jumping surface and a hula hoop?

1. Go to your nearest store. Heck, even a $1 store might have these if you're lucky.
2. Purchase a kid's hula hoop. Pick the smallest one that you see.
3. Use the hula hoop in your next workout, doing various jumping patterns for time.

You can simply lay it on the ground, jump in & out, forward & back, side to side. Shuffle your feet, split your feet, do whatever jump you wish. A favorite of mine is imagining the hoop being a face of a clock, and doing 'clock jumps' throughout out the edges. Jumping to the 12, the 3, the 6, and the 9, hopping back inside the hoop before each one, is a great little drill to help work on body control, balance, and stability while doing a powerful, controlled action.

I'd often use this in my boot camp training as a station, and also with my sports performance workouts I'd conduct inside a racquetball court. Its cheap, simple, & effective.

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Creator: kettlebell27
Category: General/Other
Posted: 2/22/2008

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	“ Your coach perhaps got the idea from a website that I submitted an article to, about this implementation. The site was Sportspecific dot com, which is now merged into the new site of Strength Coach dot com. I wrote it in 2006 I think. I knew it would be a hit when I was training seven 8th grade girls for basketball improvement, and they took my hula hoops I was using for boot camps, and started jumping through them on the floor. The light bulb hit me, and the "Hula Hoop Workout" was born. ”
	- kettlebell27 on 2/23/2008

	“ This is so crazy that someone else recommends this. My soccer coach recommends a similar method of exercise. Great tip kettlebell ”
	- Jweave on 2/22/2008

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