Rope jumping is fun and offers endless challenges. Plus, it’s one of the best cardiovascular exercises on the planet. The following steps will guide you through the basics. For more tips, snag our Rope Jumping for Maximum Fitness DVD and/or our Rope Jumping for Maximum Fitness PDF manual.
The Essentials
To begin jumping rope, all you need are:
- comfortable workout clothes
- a pair of supportive sneakers
- a correctly-sized jump rope
- some great tunes
Even if you’ve never jumped rope before, we’re confident that with practice and persistence you’ll pick it up quickly. Need a rope? The Punk Rope Shop can hook you up.
We offer three types of ropes:
1) The Code Series (Code Red, Code Blue, Code Orange), which are excellent for beginners and ideal for improving general fitness
2) Speed Ropes, which are outstanding for developing lightning fast feet and hands and boosting overall fitness
3) The Beast Heavy Rope, which improves grip, forearm, and upper body strength, and basically takes your workout into the stratosphere.
The Basic Movements
The beauty of rope jumping is that it only requires two simple movements:
- First, you turn the rope by rotating (aka circumducting) your wrists.
- Then, you jump over it.
Performing these two motions in the proper order is the key to being a successful jumper. If you jump too early or turn too late you’ll get immediate feedback that something went wrong! In other words, the rope will probably hit you and that’s no fun at all.
