Jump Rope Videos

We already know that Molly is fast. And how did she get so fast? She practices hard. REALLY hard.

This video is guaranteed to motivate you to pick up your jump rope and head to the gym. You can learn more from Molly @ MollyMetz.com

Here on JRV we tend to focus a lot more on the sport of Jump Rope rather than jumping rope as a training tool for other sports. However, there are probably many more people that jump rope strictly for exercise than there are people who compete in jump rope tournaments. Jump Rope is an excellent training tool for all other sports. Boxers in particular love to use jump rope as part of their training. It’s quite simply the best exercise there is. It’s great for improving foot work and for conditioning arms and legs. Not to mention that it burns calories crazy fast.

This is a great video of a workout by Boxing expert Ross Enamait from RossTraining.com. In the article that accompanies this video, Ross gives some nice tips on rope selection. He suggests using wrist weights instead of weighted ropes. He also breaks down some of the tricks he does in the video. The aesthetics of these tricks aren’t important. This isn’t a jump rope tournament or a performance. The goal is to get an intense workout, not to make it look pretty. I don’t think I’ve seen a jump rope workout more intense than this.

This is guaranteed to melt some fat in a hurry:

Bret over at Exercise Equipment Expert has done a nice video review of JumpSnap, “The Ropeless Jump Rope”. When I previously posted about the JumpSnap, I said that I wasn’t sure what to think of it. Jump Rope is already a great exercise. A good jump rope is very cheap and ultra-portable. I just couldn’t think of a reason why I would want to use JumpSnap instead of my standard jump rope. After watching Bret’s review, I learned a few things about JumpSnap that have made me reconsider its potential uses.

When Bret pointed out that you can add weights to the handles I had an idea. I wonder if JumpSnap would be a useful tool when conditioning for jump rope competitions. I think it might be particularly useful for the speed and triple-under events. The three minute speed event is particularly brutal.

As every top speed jumper will tell you, it is their arms that give out first. I could run in place for a full three minutes without any problems, but my arms would always start to feel the burn within the first minute. By adding a little weight to the handles and simulating a speed event while using the JumpSnap, it could potentially improve endurance in your arms.

Of course, this is just a theory at this point. I have no empirical evidence to back this up yet, but I think it is worth a try. If you give JumpSnap a try, let us know what you think about it. Who knows, maybe JumpSnap will be the secret weapon for a future Grand National Speed Champion.

For a long time there has been a strong link between jumping rope and boxing. Jump rope is an excellent cross training and conditioning tool for nearly any sport. Boxers like it because it also helps with their agility and coordination. Undefeated boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. uses jump rope as part of his workout out routine. This jump rope video from Expert Village talks a little about why jumping rope is an important part of any boxers workout.

Lyen Wong is a fitness competitor and personal trainer with an impressive resume. Some of her accomplishments include being 2005 NAC Miss Universe and German national fitness champion in 2005 and 2006. She is in amazing shape, and includes jump rope as part of her workout, as seen in this video.

Here’s more proof that jump rope is a great exercise. In this video, Kim walks us through her jump rope workout routine. Kim is a Ford fitness model and is obviously in great shape. Whatever she’s doing must work.

It’s important for you to note that she keeps the tricks in her workout rather simple. In fact all of the tricks she does are considered basic jump rope skills. You don’t have to know how to do advanced tricks in order to get a good workout. Just basic bounce, side straddles (which Kim calls “jumping jacks”) and criss crosses are all you need to get a pretty thorough workout. However, you don’t have to stop there. One of the great things about jump rope is the literally infinite variety of tricks you can do. There will never be a point when you run out of new tricks to challenge you. Just take a look around at all of the jump rope videos on this site, and you will see new and unique things in each and every video.

Jump Rope is the best exercise I know. You can burn calories really fast. You work a lot of different muscle groups in your arms, legs, and core. The equipment is cheap. The best ropes cost less than $10. Not to mention that a basic jump rope workout doesn’t require much space to do and storage space is non existent, unlike the giant treadmill currently collecting dust in my living room.

Enter the latest fitness fad: JumpSnap. I first heard of this last year from a little blog called Gizmodo. As a lifelong athlete in the sport of Jump Rope, I’m not really sure what to think about this. I’ve spent a large portion of my life teaching others how easy and fun it is to jump rope. Do we really need to replace a $10 piece of equipment with a $60 one?

Here is the promotional video for JumpSnap. You be the judge.

As you know, jump rope is an excellent exercise. Many people workout with a jump rope to lose weight. I’ve seen it claimed that you can burn up to 1000 calories an hour by jumping rope. That’s probably only realistic if you weigh 220 lbs. You can find out how many calories you burn based on your weight and the time you spend jumping using this nifty calories burned estimator from healthstatus.com. To lose one pound you must burn 3,500 calories more than you take in.

Jump Rope is also used heavily as a cross training tool for other sports. Many professional athletes use jump rope to improve their endurance, agility, and coordination. Boxing is probably the most often cited example of a sport that uses jump rope as part of it’s training regimen. Even undefeated boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. jumps rope as seen in this video: