Fitness Skipping Rope

Skipping is a super form of cardio for fat loss and can be done in a short amount of time. It is challenging, so don’t be disheartened if you struggle with it at first, be persistent and you will find yourself a pro in no time.

Jumping rope is popular among boxers for good reason; it is an excellent warm up and also improves your coordination while boosting your fitness.

It is a cheap and portable workout that you can fit in just about anywhere, making it great for travel!

Benefits of Skipping

1) Fat burn

Skipping burns a significant amount of calories and this makes it an excellent activity for anyone wanting to change their body composition in a minimal amount of time.

2) Co-ordination skills

Skipping can improve other aspects of fitness such as your coordination, agility, balance, physical fitness and your strength and endurance levels.

3) Can be done anywhere

Skipping training sessions that works great both indoors and outdoors, although do try to avoid extremes such as very hard surfaces like concrete or too soft surfaces like carpet. Ideally a wooden floor such as one you would find in an aerobics studio is ideal or a floor with padded matting such as those in boxing clubs are also great to skip on.

4) Challenges your fitness

It is a great training tool to add variety to your cardio routine as it will challenge your fitness and muscles in ways that other activities don’t – this may also reduce the risk of stress injuries that can be caused by doing the same activities using the same muscles repeatedly.

Skipping is great challenges as once you have mastered the basic jumps you can move on to more complicated styles and even incorporate different moves into your jumps from low kicks to hamstring curls.