I have been eating like an absolute moron for weeks now. I fall down a deep dark hole of sugar and carbs every year about this time. Now I need to start crawling my way out of that happy but unhealthy place. While you can’t outrun a bad diet, I’m all about adding some extra cardio to offset some of my bad eating decisions. When I say extra cardio, I don’t mean the Fitbit steps I accrue while walking around my kitchen making baked goods. I mean the kind of cardio that gets your blood that is thick as maple syrup from all the sugar moving through your body.
I introduce to you today, the Cardio Dance Hoop!
Check out how fun the cardio dance hoop can be. I’m still at the beginner level so I won’t wow you with my talents just yet. This lady is working it!
When you are not using your cardio hoop, simply slide behind the couch. It also comes apart easily and breaks down into 8 little pieces that can be stored in the box that it comes in. My children like to use the cardio hoop as blanket fort support too. Who knew having a cardio hoop could be so useful?
Next time you find yourself in Target, check the fitness aisle for the Empower line of fitness gear. Empower Fitness has items at target.com as well!
It is officially time for me to walk away from the Christmas goodies and give my new workout pants I got for Christmas a bit of cardio action. Currently I’m wearing yoga pants because my pants with button closures and zippers feel pretty much horrific right now. Who is with me? Wanna give Cardio Dance Hoop a try in the new year?
A SIMPLE GIVEAWAY
One reader will win a cardio hoop! Enter below via Rafflecopter.
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No I’ve never heard of Empower before this post. The holiday food I can’t resist are all the cookies. Seems like everyone bakes during the holidays and I must try them all! I think the RE’s Better Back and Core looks cool as well.
The Lighted Walking Weights looks super cool! I haven’t heard of Empower before but they have tons of products that I’m interested in. This past holiday, I couldn’t stop eating the brownies that my SIL made. Sooo good!
I have not heard of empower.The holiday food I could not leave alone is fruit cake. Fingertip medicine ball with DVD.
I like the 3 in 1 kettle bell
I like the yoga pads. I can’t stop eating those Reese Trees!
My weakness is carbs, so I like homemade breads over the holidays! I would like to try the Empower Medicine Ball.
I have not heard of Empower before today. I could not leave alone the holiday cheese. I think the Empower Boxing Boot Camp looks cool.
I had not heard of Empower before – but the Skipfit looks fun! My holiday splurge is cookies – I’m a cookie monster!
No, I have not heard of it but it looks great!
i have heard of empower before today. I like how they integrate their exercise equipment and make it fun and useful.
During the holiday ate way to many christmas cookies. I like the empower medicine ball.
I have heard of empower and have always wanted a cardio dance hoop. I could not stay away from all of the Christmas cookies!
I have heard of Empower. I enjoyed homemade organic eggnog,
I’ve never heard about it ! And I couldn’t stay away from the pumpkin pie or mashed potatoes! I need this! 🙂
Pecan Pie tarts were my weakness over the holidays! And I love the BOXING BOOT CAMP!
yes I’ve heard of i before and I couldn’t put down cut out cookies, I can’t resist them.
That’s my weakness too. Those darn Christmas cookies. The best!
Deviled Eggs, Cookies (sugar/peanut butter blossoms) and I make wayyy to many cheesy sausage balls (that I always end up eating wayyy too many too!) but they are so good! I would love to have the CALORIE-BLASTING SKIPFIT too!
WHAT are cheesy sausage balls?!?!?! They sound yum!
Jimmy Dean Sausage Roll, 3/4 Cup Flour, 2 cups of cheese, chopped onion and celery, pepper to taste. Mix it all together and form into balls. Bake at 375 for about 18 minutes. Let cool and enjoy! They are so good!
I’m going to need to try this!!!! Thank you so much for sharing!
No, I haven’t.
Red velvet cake.
10lb Fingertip Grip Medicine Ball with DVD.
I had difficulty staying away from the Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies! I would love to get the 3 IN 1 KETTLEBELL from Empower!
I have never heard of empower. They have some fun stuff. calorie busting skipfit looks fun. I enjoyed way too much cream cheese with raspberry chipolte jelly and wheat thins.
Hello fellow Virginia. 🙂 cream cheese with anything is just too hard to resist.
Pumpkin Pie is my holiday taboo, can’t get enough of it!!! I have never heard of them, but the CALORIE-BLASTING SKIPFIT sounds cool!
I have never heard of empower but their foot roller massagers are now absolutely necessary!!
I hadnt heard of this, I could not leave the bean dip alone. I like the weighted fitness vest on their site.
I had never heard of Empower before this post. Anything with chocolate is what I couldn’t leave alone! I think the boxing boot camp product would be an awesome set to have.
I’ve never heard of it either, but seems like more interesting ways to work out. I probably should have stayed out of the cookies. The bad part is I made more last night-they were good. haha
“WERE good” hahaha. Gone? 🙂
I have never heard of Empower until I read you review on the website. I can’t live without chocolate at the holidays. 3 IN 1 KETTLEBELL is the product I would like to try because so much easier on my joints than dumbbells.
I have not heard about them before reading about it today . Over the holidays that stuffing kept calling my name and i kept eating it
I’ve always wanted to try kick-boxing so the Boxing Bootcamp looked like something I would purchase! I have a hard time staying away from cheese platters around the holidays.
Cassie M
moreno.c@husky.neu.edu
No i have not heard of them. I like the hula hoop. I could not resist homemade buckeyes!
I ate to many cookies! The cardio hoop is my favorite.
No, I had not heard of the Empower hoop until this giveaway. The food I couldn’t stay away from was candy cane chocolates. And the item I’m most intrigued by on the website is the medicine ball.
I honestly never heard of Empower before today! I could nto stay away from the frosted sugar cookies!! i really want theANKLE / WRIST WEIGHTS, 3 LB PAIR! they look super interesting and helpful for toning!
I have never heard of their product before. I honestly think the cardio dance hoop is a really neat idea. It’s like your having fun but getting in shape at the same time. At Christmas the food I can’t seem to leave alone is my mother’s yams. They are delicious.
Oh, and my aunt’s homemade vegan rolls!
The 3 in 1 kettlebell looks awesome.
Never heard of empower before! I couldn’t leave those cookies alone and travel massage ball is my favorite product
The Berry Yoga Pad looks aesome and comfortable. I have never heard of this brand, but I LOVE hooping and have a ton of friends who do it as dance and cardio and love it! Also mashed potatoes. can’t do without the homemade mashed potatoes lol
i gotta have one slice of pumpkin roll!
i never knew that you could actually do cardio with a hoop but it sounds interesting!
I love the skipfit and I could not keep
Out of the cookies
I have not heard of Empower before. I currently workout at the fitness center at my workplace.
I have heard of Empower! I have their adjustable kettlebell. I love it! I think I’ve been pretty good as far as food. I just haven’t had a lot of time to workout. And I want to try the Cardio Dance Hoop.
I like the Empower™ 10 lbs. Fingertip Grip Medicine Ball. I couldn’t leave the fudge alone this christmas!
I couldn’t put down the peanut butter fudge! Seriously I ate a whole pan myself! 😳 I love the boxing boot camp set from their site!
Hadnt heard of Empower until today! I’ve been searching for some tools to help get rid of the holiday weight ( so many cookies….way too many). I love so many things on Empower! I’m watching a few of the core videos. Excited to start getting inshape!
I have not hear of Empower. I could not get away from all the cookies. I love the CALORIE-BLASTING SKIPFIT. It reminds me of the lemon twist I had as a kid and actually still have it!
I haven’t. I ate a lot of cookies… definitely need to work them off!
I haven’t heard of Empower before today. The holiday food I couldn’t leave alone was spinach artichoke dip. Another product I thought looked cool was calorie blasting skipfit.
I have not heard of Empower before, my niece has been using a dance hoop and she loves it. The one food I couldn’t stay away from was my Sisters rum cake. The cardio dance hoop is the item on their website that looks best to me.
I’ve seen the Cardio Dance Hoop before but didn’t realize they had so much variety. I like the RE BETTER BACK AND CORE. This could feel really good on my back and could help me out!
I’ve never heard of Empower before today? RE’s Travel Massage Ball looks cool and would be very useful for me
The cardio dance hoop that looks like my daughters skip-it!
That’s funny! I thought the same thing! I had a skip it when I was a kid and I loved it.
I ate way to many deviled eggs and mashed potatoes. I like their FUSION FIT DISC, 10LB!
I believe I have heard of this before. I would love it. I can’t stay away from anything with peppermint. I love it.
I have never heard of this. My fave is the hula hoop! I over indulged on Xmas cookies!
I hear ya. Sugar cookies are my greatest temptation.
I haven’t heard of this particular brand but I have heard of weighted hula hoops. My mom has one. I think it’s a neat idea and would love to try it!
I have not heard of Empower before, but I would like the CALORIE-BLASTING SKIPFIT and this Cardio Dance Hoop for exercise. I could not resist eating a lot of wonderful chocolates that I got for gifts this Christmas.
The holiday baked goods. All the delicious sugary items I should have walked away from. Time to get real.
I am in the same place. I’m paying for it and it’s time to walk away. 🙂
No, I haven’t heard of Empower before today. The holiday food that I couldn’t leave alone this Christmas was Apple Pie. I think the CALORIE-BLASTING SKIPFIT also looks cool on the Empower website.
Never heard of it before but would love to check out.
AMAZING ABS 3-IN-1 WEIGHTED CORE HOOP
potato salad
I have a hard time passing up Christmas cookies. What I like on empower is : 10LB FINGERTIP GRIP MEDICINE BALL WITH DVD
I had never heard of Empower until you wrote about it. Over the holidays, there were these cookies that someone we know made that I could not walk in the kitchen and not eat. I think the DELUXE TOTAL BODY TONING SYSTEM, INT/ADV looks like a really great product to have.
I enjoyed turkey this holiday. I like the fusion fit disc.