I so want to skip like Sugar Ray. I can just about side criss-cross.
Skipping is one my favourite warm up and cool down routines. I’d usually skip on shoulders and Back day. 3 5mins rounds at the start of the session and then 5 mins at the end. I always go explosively. I want to hear myself breathing hard when I’m done.
For straight up cardio…I count to 1,000, ive done 2,000 skips before…usually takes me 15-20 minutes.
I usually warm up with skipping rope before exercise and I’ll do anywhere between 200-300 skips. So yeah…I count skips.
I’ll switch it up to make it interesting. I’ll run a lap skipping rope, skip rope alternating feet, while kicking one leg and jumping with the other, I’ll turn in circles…skip backwards…whatever I can do to challenge myself more. I can do all of that but I still can’t cross the rope!
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Anybody here use the big heavy rubber looking ropes?[/quote]
I trained with a 5lb rubber rope - it was cool and hard to do.
the rubber stretches- as you are jumping it swings
and makes it difficult to get a good rhythm going
this is verbatim what I just posted on my journal in over 35 lifter:
Skipped today. I tried the new routine I heard about over in combat. that is I aimed for 3 3 minute sessions of the highest intensity I could crank out, I minute between sets. I started out fine, but the first session I caught my toes several times and therefore extended the end of the first session by 30 seconds to try and make up.
The second sessions I caught so many times I made it an extra minute there.
The third I slightly slowed intensity and only went an extra 20 seconds by the shrewdness of my judgement. I suppose that over time I will work the catching out, and maybe work towards higher intensity. Eventually I hope to get into alternating foot contact.
Since I didn’t exhaust myself as compared to my old routine, I wonder if I could handle 2 sessions per week? I wonder what anyone thinks.
Edit: I just practiced Muay Thai kicks. I think I am averaging better balance, now I just have solidify that and make sure I am getting my body into and not catch myself chambering the kick and snapping my lower leg out.
After a while though, my mind wandered and I decided to stop for the day rather than learn bad habits.
[quote]DeadKong wrote:
this is verbatim what I just posted on my journal in over 35 lifter:
Skipped today. I tried the new routine I heard about over in combat. that is I aimed for 3 3 minute sessions of the highest intensity I could crank out, I minute between sets. I started out fine, but the first session I caught my toes several times and therefore extended the end of the first session by 30 seconds to try and make up.
The second sessions I caught so many times I made it an extra minute there.
The third I slightly slowed intensity and only went an extra 20 seconds by the shrewdness of my judgement. I suppose that over time I will work the catching out, and maybe work towards higher intensity. Eventually I hope to get into alternating foot contact.
Since I didn’t exhaust myself as compared to my old routine, I wonder if I could handle 2 sessions per week? I wonder what anyone thinks.
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Here’s my advice - DON’T EXTEND THE SESSION BECAUSE YOU CATCH ON THE ROPE.
You’re replicating a fight, which is bursts of intensity followed by slight breaks where you catch your breath, then another flurry, then another, then another, then a break, and so on. But no matter what happens in the round, the round only lasts three minutes, and you should, at least at the beginning, preserve the integrity of that.
Get used to 3 minutes on and 1 minute off first, fucking with the times and extending it because you think you should is only going to tire you out more and sap your ability to recover (as it clearly did).
What you’re trying to do is get as good as you can inside that three minutes, and then get used to using the 1 minute as your break where you will catch your breath.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Anybody here use the big heavy rubber looking ropes?[/quote]
Never. The ropes I use are the cheap rubber ones from sports authority that have tiny black plastic handles and say “Speed rope” on them.
The purpose of jumping rope is to go fast, do tricks and shit, develop coordination and rhythm and all that, not actually exhaust your muscles before you go into your real skillwork - which is what those heavier ropes do to me.
Speed ropes are the way to go. No plastic elementary school things, no string, no heavy ass shit made out of the inner tubes of tires haha.
Ive been doing 5 2 minute rounds with 1 min break. Killer 15 minutes.
[quote]devildog_jim wrote:
+9000
I’m pretty sure I could get ready for a boxing match with a pullup/dip station, a jumprope, a heavy bag, and two pair of boxing gloves.[/quote]
I know this thread went dead a while ago, but here goes anyway.
I saw this thread, took the ideas on rope routine to heart, saw a Freddy Roach video showing a heavy bag drill, and then on a lark suddenly bought myself a 75lbs bag (I found out after I should have gone for a 100lb one due to my size, but anyway).
Not that I expect to actually get into a fighting discipline, I just want the higher intensity and at least a little sparring ability.
Damutt over in over 35 lifter mildly admonished me for giving up on Wendler’s 5/3/1 too soon, I a few weeks ago restarted an old 3 day split I once did. He did say that lots of training routines could be beneficial to me and perseverance is key, but I still have a question here.
Similar to what Devil is saying, my day one is: shoulder press, dip, chinup, abs.
The day 2 is: legs
the day 3 is another upper body, with abs I might retain.
the question is, not that I am calling this a soopersputnitz routine, but if I drop the day 3, bag drill 3? times a week, include rope skipping sessions, might i be about right?