Jump Rope Training: 21 Trials Found Small-to-Moderate Gains in Fitness, Strength and Sprint Speed - and Eight Weeks of Interval Skipping Raised Adult VO2max by Nearly Five Points
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Skipping is the cheapest conditioning tool in any gym and the one most people abandon after thirty seconds of tripping on the rope. Every classic variation, from the basic hop and the alternating leg to the boxer step and the double under, loads the same system: a fast, repeated, ankle-driven bounce timed to a turning rope. The practical question is what that bounce does to fitness when it is trained for weeks rather than seconds, and two recent studies put numbers on it.
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