Many of us have stepped up our home gym routine in the past two years, and while fancy Pilates machines and indoor rowing machines are now popular staples on living room floors, we’ll never overlook the humble jump rope. The affordable and effective accessory is a great way to get fit.
Jess Hiestand, NASM-certified personal trainer for Rumble Boxing, extols the virtue of the almighty rope: “Jump roping can be great for your workout routine because it provides great cardio, it gets your heart rate up quickly.” You’ll also hone your muscular endurance with the rope. “Calves and legs can be stronger for longer once you start jumping rope. Biceps, wrists, forearms, also assist in this exercise,” she says. Hiestand is a big fan of jump rope on the strength-training front, too: “Jumping rope can help with strength training and is beneficial mixing strength with cardio because the endurance of your lower body muscles like calves will see crazy improvement with jumping rope that you may not see with other forms of cardio exercises like cycling and the elliptical.”
As Hiestand highlights, other benefits of jumping rope include improved balance, coordination, and spatial awareness. “You may start jumping rope by looking at where the rope is and then hopping over it, but as you improve, you will need to rely less on hand eye coordination and more on feeling the rope and understanding the rhythm at which you’re swinging and jumping.”
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