New Hoop!

Yay, it arrived last night. I let it gradually uncoil from the trip and snapped it together this morning. I did a simple hoop flow with it, working on smear variations and some basic waist hooping. I LOVE the color. And I do like this brand, Canyon Hoops. They make quality hoops with quality tape.

It's their Control Flex hoop, a 3/4 ID hoop, so a bit over an inch thick. It's 40" in diameter. And it weighs 20oz. With blue and sparkly violet grip tape. So pretty.....

My hoop collection

Now to incorporate more hoop flow sessions into my days and weeks. And master hip hooping and chest hooping and just generally fall in love with hooping again.

oops

oops. It's been ages since I've hooped. I'm still going to derby. Although I did skip last Thursday's practice. Boss came into town. I was expected to be in the office, an hour away, three days in a row. And by the third day, I just couldn't stick around uptown to head to practice. I came home. And crashed. I just live too far from anything to not be tired commuting every which way. It's why I no longer ice skate. I just live too far away.

The hoop thing, yea I'm a little ashamed. I've been trying to analyze why I've basically abandoned practice. That new hoop. I hate it. I hate that I bought it. I hate that it was such a cluster with color. Some of the tape is snagged, too. And especially because it's just too advanced a hoop for me. I never spent my birthday money from my mom, so a new hoop got purchased yesterday.

This one will be thicker, like the hoop I've been practicing with for a while. It's a control flex, 3/4" inside thickness. But this one is 40" in diameter. My previous hoop was 38". Again, I got ambitious. Ridiculous to think I was no longer a beginner. I'm a beginner.

Here's hoping my new hoop will re-energize me. I bought it from Canyon Hoops. I trust them. The last hoop I bought, with the cluster in color and snagged tape (she still hasn't sent me more tape like she promised she would), yea I won't buy from her again. Live and learn. Die and forget it all.

stupid scale

Went to derby last night. Was the only rec skater, as expected. Burned a shitton of calories. Got on the scale this morning.

The stupid scale and its stupid numbers. I don't understand how I can be up 1.5 lbs when my tracking says I should be down that amount. I weigh and measure everything I eat, write it all down. I eat 3 servings of non-starchy veg about 5 days a week. I workout 5 days a week. I've even increased my steps to 10k/day this week, to improve NEAT. I just do not understand how I could not be losing weight. All these weeks of doing just this. Eating at a 500cal/day deficit. Carbs average 100g/day, so some days are higher, some days are lower. Protein averages 100g/day. I've been tested for insulin resistance and low thyroid. All apparently normal. I'm beside myself and don't know what more I can do.

It just drains all energy and motivation. I have no desire to hoop. Good thing derby doesn't come back around until next Tuesday. I'm sick of working so hard and doing everything right. My BMI says I'm obese. I know BMI can be an unreliable indicator of health but not at the obese levels. And I'm obese. Feels like I'll always be obese. I've always been obese.

I hate it.

Hops

Derby on Tuesday was rather pleasant. Our trainer was off skates due to a minor surgical procedure she had done, but I wasn't the only one on skates. Another skater showed up about 20 mins late. We did lap drills and then moved onto hopping.

I feel like I made some real progress there. I had two very advanced skaters just watching my form and able to pick apart what I was doing and have me work on corrections. I fell a few times but safe falls. Nothing scary. We also worked on lateral hops, since this is a fairly new addition to the formal assessments.

I may not ever actually take assessments again cuz our league just makes it so miserable, no thanks. But I would like to know for myself whether I can actually do everything on it. As we were breaking down the movement of the lateral hop, jumping to the side at least 18 inches, the other skater pointed out how far I was hopping and how it's a perk of having long legs.

Never been accused of having long legs before...for my height, I'm all torso. I have short, stumpy legs for my height. Only a 30" inseam at 5'7". I have a friend who's 5'2" with a 28" inseam. So yea, I'm all torso. But this skater is a wee short little thing, so I guess relatively speaking, I have long legs.

We ended working on some whips, per my suggestion. I enjoy these. That burst of momentum that I have trouble generating on my own is quite fun.

Tonight is practice with the main league. There are a shitton of newbies, so it shouldn't be too overwhelming. I will probably be the only rec skater again. Knowing this heightens the anxiety. I've been the only rec skater before but left for practice thinking others would be there. There's a strong urge to stay home. I'm fighting it. We'll see which side wins.

Hoopskating

Not sure I'm ready to try this...yet