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Benefits Of Skipping
People looking to lose weight are always interested in doing exercises. But if you want to lose weight, sooner or later you are going to have to start doing exercises to burn off extra calories. While taking weight loss pills, such as ProShapeRX pills, to start the weight loss process is a good idea, calories will still refuse to burn themselves off. This means that you have to do some efforts.
There are many types of motion: weight lifting, walking, exercises, skipping etc. Now we'll talk about benefits of skipping.
Skipping will help improve cardio-respiratory (heart and lungs) fitness, flexibility and co-ordination.
Skipping for Improved Cardiovascular Fitness
As a high-impact exercise skipping is great for building bones and a good exercise to trim hips, thighs and backsides.
Another great exercise for burning calories is rope skipping. Once you learn how to jump rope properly with good coordination it will be possible to continue rope skipping for longer periods. Because rope jumping is a fairly energetic exercise lots of calories can be burned during a twenty minute session of skipping.
Skipping is definitely an excellent exercise for improving cardiovascular fitness and whilst this might be surprising, if done correctly, using that skipping rope is medium impact, rather like a brisk walk. Medium impact activity, like skipping, places less stress on the joints than high impact activity. The health benefits of improving cardiovascular fitness are well understood and skipping as a moderate activity can really take you a long way towards reaching the recommended goal of including 30 minutes of activity in your lifestyle 3 times a week.
Why Skipping
- Improves heart rate and blood pressure
- Cheap and convenient
- Almost anyone can do it at a level that suits them
- Improves muscle tone in both the lower and upper body
- Can help in improving bone density
- Improves flexibility
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Skip Jump
hop on one foot and kick the other foot to the front (or behind) the body, alternate legs
alternate your feet in a jogging movement as you jump the rope
hop on one leg for several jumps, alternate legs (start with 2 per leg and increase as you improve)
do "jumping jacks" as you jump – one jump land with your legs apart, next jump land with them together.
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Skipping: Getting started
you haven't skipped for a long time, start by practising your timing – hold both handles of the rope in one hand and rotate it in a circular movement to your side. When the rope hits the floor, jump. Keep your jumps small to keep impact on your knees and ankles to a minimum – you only need to raise your feet about an inch off the ground. Progress to jumping over the rope once you are confident your timing is correct.
Remember,skipping is a strenuous exercise so start slowly. Try skipping for 20-30seconds, marching on the spot for 30 seconds, repeat. As your fitness improves you can increase the time you skip for.
Onceyou have perfected the basic move, you can make your workout more interesting by trying some of the following jumps:
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