Jumping Rope

[eclectic]

I am glad to hear others are bumbling along trying to jumprope
Our Y just completed a great new circuit training area and one of the aerobic stations is to jumprope for a minute - "NO problemo I thought
I was WRONG ! ! !

First of all my jumprope style has diminshed incredibly in 40 years AND I am way taller and way heavier than i was 40 years ago AND I can't jump or hop anymore (except to Polka

I too would jumprope for hours on wonderful spring days when I was a child - What happened

I do have a "professional" type adult jumprope I too will now have to dig out. The 3 times i tried it for a total of about 3 min it worked well. It is one of the rope ones, not vinyl, and has the swivel ballbearing handles.

One of the tricks I DO know is the rope has to be the right length for your height.

Start slow and gradually add speed as you get better at it.

I do the 2 foot hop, one where one foot stays as lead all the time,(kind of rocking) or the one that is actually "skipping" where you alternate feet.
the 2 foot hop is the most difficult IMHO and gets the HR up the quickest.

Cinderella dressed in yellow went downstairs to kiss her fellow . . .

Bubblegum bubblegum in a dish . . .

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich,man, poor man . . .

Go play everyone!

[OakLeaf]

Well to be fair, when we were kids it was two hops to one revolution of the rope, and then at the end of the rhyme it doubled to one hop per revolution and you counted how many you could do - what was that called?? "How many alligators were In That Purse?" I forget how high we used to get to but it wasn't over 50-60 I don't think.

[Tuckervill]

I can jump over a hundred times if I concentrate and have the right rope. The gym where I work out, someone broke the green jump rope, which was perfect for me, and I haven't been able to do more than 47 since then.

I do it fast, like a boxer.

Karen

[shootingstar]

I hadn't thought about jumping rope...but so simple.as an indoor, cheap cardiovascular exercise.now if I could try it safely in the exercise rm. without making myself a stumbling fool after..uh..35 years of not jumping rope.

And oh dear, I used to be able to jump rope or double dutch nearly up to 1,000 revolutions when I was 11. Do any of us remember such contests done often in jest?

Oh...the things we took for granted when young!

However it makes one wonder if many children these days do the same amount of jump roping as some of us did awhile ago.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I started jumping rope a few weeks ago, and I could barely do 5 jumps without stepping on the rope accidentally.
Slowly I started getting better, til now I can do 20-30 jumps without a trip-up.
It is a HUGE heart/lung exercise. Really gets your heart pounding!

I really enjoy it! I can do it in my basement on a rug, and the rope just clears the ceiling.
Sadly, I think my right knee is objecting to the jumping for now, it seems a ligament on the side of my knee got pulled or strained. It's hurting, and I need to let it heal before I take up the jump roping again v-e-r-y slowly and carefully.
I've even had to stop my fitness walking until it heals some more.

If my knee starts behaving better, I have high hopes for jump roping as a bone density building exercise.

[eclectic]

whoo hoo I am getting better again.

We were doing the circuit training and after we were done, my workout partner said "let's play" so we got the jump ropes and did the tinker tailor rhyme - alas I am to marry a beggar man but I will get a diamond ring, a paper dress, little house and 7 children (jump really fast and trip - that way you only get 7 and not 17

We were even doing "pepper"

Fun fun fun