Your Workout Goes Retro: Hula-Hooping

This is so many kinds of awesome, where should we begin?

Well, let's just say, if this is considered "exercise," sign us up! Hula-hooping, done by your mother's mother, your mother and you is coming back — and not in that sort of annoying "ironic" way by hipsters at parties (no offense, natch), but in the most adorably sincere way ever. And that's why it's awesome.

Hula-hooping is coming on like a fitness force to be reckoned with and why shouldn't it? It's fun (duh), totally cheap (you can pillage one from your parent's basement no doubt) and de-stresses you (without having to use words like "elliptical trainer," "Zumba" or "treadmill").

It's a fact, Jack: Hula-hooping ain't just kids play.

According to a story in the Christian Science Monitor (picked up by ABCnews.com) companies like HoopGirl Inc. have been early harbingers of the popularity of the activity, offering "an array of classes; performances; teacher certification programs; workout videos like "Hoopdance Evolution"; and a new book, Hooping: A Revolutionary Fitness Program.

So give it whirl, or, no, a swivel and you might just find yourself getting fit from having fun.

Read the full piece here.

Photo courtesy of Terri Heisele@sxc.hu