How To Jump Rope
Jump Rope Surfaces
Jumping over a rope that passes under both feet is a high impact exercise. Just like running is a high impact exercise. If you had a choice, you wouldn’t run on a hard unforgiving surface! Would you? Well, the same is true with jumping rope. The risk of injury is much greater on unforgiving surfaces …
Injury Free High Impact
High Impact and Low Impact Rope JumpingRope jumping exercises can be either high impact or low impactLow impact exercise keeps at least one foot in constant contact with the ground. Twirls, wraps and step-throughs are low impact jump rope routines. Walking is also a low impact exercise.High impact exercise gets both feet off the ground …
First Thoughts About Fitness Training
Think about jumping rope and you think about someone jumping! Right? Jumping rope brings two things to mind. Many adults without little children think about a firmly sculpted hard body boxer or martial artist working out in the gym with a personal fitness trainer. Parents with young children conjure up images their little kids jumping rope …
How Speed Rope Works?
It’s amazing to think that one of the simplest, oldest, most time tested pieces of exercise equipment, the jump rope, has evolved the way it has. In it’s origins the jump rope was simply a piece of cotton rope. Soon cotton turned into leather and eventually plastic. Today, the best jump rope on the market …
The Benefits of Jumping Rope
Jump rope or skipping rope is a game many children play around the world; where a player jump over a rope that is swung over their heads and under their feet. Sometimes there are a group of two or three players simultaneously jumping over the rope, and the other group swinging the rope, and take …
Do Boys Jump Rope Better Than Girls ?
In early history boys jumped rope more than girls. Today there are teams of both boys and girls who skip rope in teams for competition. There are many benefits to doing a jump rope workout besides the fun of chanting and jumping up and down. Skipping rope can be done alone or in groups and …
Double Dutch Jump Rope
Double Dutch Jump Rope Type Origins of the Double Dutch RopeDouble Dutch found its origin in Chinese, Egyptian and Phoenician rope-makers, but the game actually got its name when the Englishmen came to settle near the Hudson River and saw the Dutch children playing with two jump ropes. What they saw, they named ‘Double Dutch.’Double Dutch – …