I love hoops, and make my own, fun and relatively easy to do. It's my main source of exercising. Plus, you can weight them to whatever you like. I have many, that range from heavy, (which is excellent for beginners, you don't need much momentum to keep it going,) to light for tricks and speed. Plus, they are larger hoops, the ones at Wal-mart are meant for kids/teens, where an adult that tries with one of those might give up. One that is larger will be so much easier to keep up, which means more fun! Definately look hooping up online. It's a huge community. I'm in the process of putting a pic of my hoops on my profile.....hopefully by the time you read this you can see them