The word is ACCOMMODATION ( 🔎look it up in strength & conditioning literature )

Here I make the information hula hoop specific for you 🫶

If you’ve been hula hooping regularly and thought:

🤨? Why isn’t my body changing like it did at the start?🤔

1️⃣: First of all - YOU ARE NORMAL!
2️⃣: Second - WELL DONE FOR GETTING STARTED & NOT GIVING UP!!!!!

3️⃣: Third - this is actually a sign that your body is smart and adaptable.

Welcome to one of the most important (and empowering) concepts in strength and conditioning: accommodation.

What Is Accommodation & how does it relate to hooping?

In strength and conditioning, accommodation describes what happens when your body is exposed to the same stimulus over and over again.

= if you keep doing the same - you do not just get the same results BUT after a while you get less results

Zatsiorsky (1995) explained it like this:
when a training stimulus stays the same for too long, your body stops responding as strongly to it.

At first, hooping:

• felt challenging

• made you sore

• raised your heart rate

• created visible changes

But over time?
Your nervous system, muscles, and connective tissue go:

“Too familiar, I know this. I’ve got it covered.”

once that happens, progress slows or stops — not because hooping “doesn’t work,” but because your body has already adapted.

This is actually a win. It means you’re stronger than you were before.

Why Doing the Same Thing Forever Stops Working

If standard training sessions and workloads are used for long periods of time, inefficiency occurs.

In simple terms:

• Same hoop

• Same moves

• Same duration

• Same intensity

= no new signal for your body to change

The adaptations you’re chasing — more muscle tone, strength, endurance, fat loss, increased bone density — require new challenges.

This is why:

• Beginners see fast results

• Long-term hoopers PLATEAU unless they train smart

And this is where you can become an MEGA-FIT hooper, not just someone “going through the motions” staying the same for years

Progression Is a Skill (And You Can Learn It)

Being able to choose the right level of challenge for a trick or move is a skill — and it’s one you absolutely can develop.

Progression doesn’t mean:
❌ hooping for hours
❌ using the heaviest hoop possible

With hooping, progression might look like:

• changing hoop size or weight - I usually start with a hoop that makes a trick easy and when I am good at that move: I train with a hoop that makes it harder ( = to keep myself challenged )

• increasing time under tension

• increasing range of motion

Your sessions should always ask your body a new question: one it hasn’t answered yet. Something slightly UNFAMILIAR.

The Sweet Spot: The Yerkes-Dodson Law

This is where the Yerkes-Dodson Law becomes incredibly helpful.

It tells us that performance improves with challenge — up to a point.

Think of it like a curve:

• Too easy → bored, no adaptation

• Too hard → overwhelmed, stressed, inconsistent

• Just right → focused, engaged, growing - pooped but satisfied

This “just right” zone is where magic happens.

In hooping terms:

• You feel challenged but capable

• You make mistakes but also successes

• You’re mentally engaged, not checked out

• You finish feeling accomplished

That’s the zone where your nervous system learns, your muscles adapt, and your confidence skyrockets.

If It Feels Challenging, You’re Doing It Right

If something feels challenging, it’s not a sign you’re bad at it — it’s a sign your body is being invited to grow.

If you keep repeating the same movements forever, progress stalls.
If you gently, intentionally level up, progress continues.

You’re Not “Stuck” — You’re Ready for the Next Level

If you’ve hit a plateau with hooping, that’s not failure.

It’s a message:

YOU GOT FITTER, GORGEOUS! Let’s evolve & get EVEN FITTER!

Your body miraculously adapts.
Your nervous system loves new input.
Hooping is an incredible tool for progressive, intelligent, joyful training — when you let it grow with you.

You don’t need to do more.
You need to do what’s right for where you are now 💋

❓shall I make a video about this to help & hoopify it further? would that get you more motivated? comment below if you have observations, discoveries or questions 🙏

🔎if you would like to research and dive deeper:

“Progression of total training volume in resistance training studies and its application to skeletal muscle growth” (2024)

Evans JW (2019). Periodized resistance training for enhancing skeletal muscle hypertrophy and strength: A mini-review. Front Physiol, 10, 13.

Peixoto DL et al. (2022). Muscle daily undulating periodization for strength and body composition: The proposal of a new model. Int J Exercise Science, 15(4), 206–220.