The Hoop Experiment: Hoop

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tiistai 12. toukokuuta 2015

Pregnancy weeks 25-27

The pregnancy is now getting closer to the third trimester and I have to say that no huge changes hoop wise. Everything is still doable, even 5 hoops on-body-split, which actually feels really good... it's like a massage to my hips and back! Overall I believe that hooping is good exercise during pregnancy. It's low impact cardio and gentle to joints and ligaments... It also offers some movement to back and hips, which tend to get stiff when belly grows. I found a nice article about pregnancy hooping here.

My pregnancy weeks 24-26 I spent mostly taking it easy and resting, because I caught a cold and was really ill for over two weeks. During my flu "episode", I did my last show before maternity leave. It was a little bit of unpleasant, because of the runny nose and fatigue, but I didn't want to miss it in any case. As I said before... performing is a huge part of me and it's been really tough to sell "no". That's why I really really wanted to do the last show!

Last glow show for me during this pregnancy

As I said... everything is still doable, but the costumes are not that wearable... anymore. The belly is getting bigger!

Pregnant week 25

Here is a small, quickly edited clip from that show!

Best Spring greetings!

Wishes the lady and the bump (week27)

perjantai 13. maaliskuuta 2015

First trimester (weeks 1-13)

Oh, wau... The first trimester.. don't miss it at all. It was 8th of December when I got the positive test result and right after the test I started feeling really ill and nauseous. Especially in the morning. In the evening I was just so tired that I couldn't do anything else, but lay on the sofa and eat - carbs - all the time. Well, I did the shows already booked, but other than that, I basically lived my days on our sofa.No training for me during that time. It was a relief that my Christmas holiday started early...

New Year's performance

On January (and + 5 kg later) I finally started feeling little bit better during the days and hit back the training hall...

Training with Milla

If I ate really well (read carbs) I could perform as well.... Two shows were 9 am in the morning, which meant that I had to wake up around 4.30 am. Eating rye bread right after I got out of bed helped a lot.

Fooling around before the show

So, First trimester summary:

- Feeling really ill

- Tired

- almost no training

+ Still could do everything with hoop, even the inversions.

About The Hoop Experiment and me

Is hooping your passion? Mine too!
Hooping fills my days in so many ways... It brings me joy, it keeps me fit, it keeps me motivated and it helps me to pay my bills. At the moment I work as a professional show performer in Finland and abroad as well; Fire shows, glow shows, hoops, poi, staff, singing, gigs, teaching in workshops and of course training fill my calender. Hmm.. At least filled my calender.

On November (2014) my husband and I got some great news.We are going to have a baby! Yai! The baby is more than wanted and welcome! We jumped for joy! Still slowly these questions started to pop up in my head: How to combine growing belly and hooping successfully together? Will I be able to still hoop, especially multi hoop and how long? And what happens after, do I have to learn on-body multi hooping all over again?
I tried to google answers to my questions, but I couldn't find that much of a info - especially about multi hooping, so I decided to make an experiment of my own - Hooping while pregnant and hooping post partum. You'r welcome to join my prego hooping journey =)!

Few throw -backs: