We love jump rope because it consistently delivers results and the benefits go beyond helping you sculpt a body that’s always ready for the beach.
Here are 10 awesome and practical benefits of jumping rope:
- Amazing For Weight Loss
Fitness can get complicated and everyone’s body is different, but the basic principles are the same. If you consume more calories than you burn, you’re going to put on weight. If you consume less calories than you burn, you’re going to lose weight
Now, we practice intermittent fasting and advocate the use of a calorie deficit to help you lose weight, but a key component is exercise. If you don’t intentionally move your body, your metabolism slows down and you burn less calories, which means it’s even harder to get lean.
One of the most popular benefits of jumping rope that we’ve experienced is how fast you’re able to burn calories, especially when you use heavy ropes. Jump rope is simply amazing for weight loss. In fact, you can burn up to 500 calories in just 15 minutes. - Improves Your Coordination
Whether or not you pay attention, your brain always knows what your feet are doing. Jumping rope is great for coordination for this simple reason. While jumping rope, you’re moving your feet up and down with a fast tapping motion so it’s great for sports where you’re constantly changing direction like basketball, boxing or soccer. It takes practice to find your rhythm, but once you do it’s like unlocking your physical potential. - Decrease Foot and Ankle Injuries
How many professional basketball and football players end their season or careers early because of a foot/ankle injury?
It’s a lot.
Think of your body like a building with your feet and ankles being the foundation. You can’t neglect them without risking the whole thing collapsing. If you make sure they are strong and healthy, nobody will knock you down easily.
When you are jumping rope, you’re strengthening the muscles, ligaments, and tendons around your foot and ankles making you less prone to injury. This is why many beginners complain to us about their feet hurting so bad. The reason is because you’re working all these new, cool muscles around your feet and ankles that you haven’t used regularly before. The first time you use any muscle, it gets sore for the next couple of days. - Improves Your Posture
We now live in a society where everyone spends most of the day hunched over the computer (and our awesome smartphones) doing stuff like work, school, and social media. When you have this kind of slouching posture, your shoulders are caved in, your back is hunched, and this is just not good for your lower back and discs.
With proper jump rope form, you’re actually pulling your shoulder blades back and you’re aligning your spine. Which has the added benefit of making you look taller. Note that: Jump rope doesn’t actually make you taller, but by improving your posture, you’ll be standing up straighter, which makes you seem taller. Good form isn’t just important while you exercise. Proper posture also improves digestion and blood flow to the brain. - Increase Your Bone Density
The best exercise to improve bone density is simply just jumping up and down, which makes jump rope one of the best exercises for healthy bones.
Why is improved bone density a good thing? Good question.
Consider that your body is a building. If your feet and ankles are the foundation, your bones are the infrastructure, the beams and columns, keeping your skyscraper from becoming a pile of rubble. Bone density is a marker of bone health and strong bones don’t break as easily. The repetitive bouncing motion of jump rope benefits your bones in ways that lifting weights and other forms of cardio do not. - Helps You Recover From an Injury
Jump rope is an amazing exercise for recovering from an injury.
When someone gets injured or hurt and they have physical trauma, jump rope is the most baseline exercise for recovering from injury. The reason is that when you’re performing the exercise and jumping up and down while your body is properly aligned, you’re engaging your entire body. Plus there’s the added benefit of jump rope being low impact so you’re minimizing your chance of re-injuring yourself. - Boosts Your Intelligence
Jump rope makes you smarter.
What?
Jumping aids in the development of the left and right hemispheres of your brain, which further enhances spatial awareness, improves reading skills, increases memory, and makes you more mentally alert. Jumping on the balls of your feet requires your body and mind to make more neural-muscular adjustments to imbalances you experience from continuous jumping. As a result, jumping improves dynamic balance and coordination, reflexes, bone density, and muscular endurance. - More Than Just Cardio
Jumping with a thinner or speed rope is a great cardio workout. You can even do treadmill, running, or get on the bike for a cardio workout. On the other end of the spectrum, weight lifting is a great workout if you want to grow your muscle mass and get lean.
But, the middle ground of all of this is using heavy jump ropes with intensity. When you use heavy jump ropes and you do some intense workouts, you’re not just getting a cardio workout, you’re getting a muscular workout as well. A total body workout, which means you’re killing two birds with one stone. For any beginners, jump rope is an amazing way to get a really lean and shredded physique because it burns a ton of calories. - Improve Heart Health
Cardio workouts are often popular because of how simple and straightforward they are. You just lace up your sneakers and step on a treadmill or walk out your door and start running.
Cardio workouts also have a positive impact on your heart, which is the primary organ of your cardiovascular system. Your heart literally puts the “cardio” in cardio workout. While other common exercises like running and jogging can give your heart a good workout, jump rope is unique in that it’s more efficient AND has a lower risk of injury. - It’s Fun!
Who said that getting fit had to be a boring chore? Working out should get you the results you want and be a whole lot of fun. There are endless tricks to learn and you can do it anywhere.
Why does it matter if your workout is fun? Because if you hate doing something, you won’t do it for long. If your workout routine is boring or painful or doesn’t get you the results you’re looking for, you won’t stick with it. Jump rope is fun, effective, and it fits into your schedule in just 10-20 minutes a day!
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