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la la la… upon reading this I skipped everywhere today… I bet I burned 18,000 calories. the light in the loafers feeling isn’t a mirage, since I lost approximately 5lbs of fat just today alone…
You guys are a bunch of homos. Oh wait, I forgot. Everyone who reads T-mag is hardcore. Forget reading or learning new stuff from any other source. Keep an open mind. You’d be amazed at how much you can learn.
I step away from T-mag for a few months and look at all the new people who don’t realize how good some jump roping is for them.
Maybe you’ve never trained the Renegade way. You’re missing out.
And yes, this is old news. Skipping rope for 10 minutes is equal to 30 minutes of jogging or biking. Try it and see.
natedogg is right, beacause i couldn’t
remember the difference between that and
jumping rope. before i got sick i was
jumping 30 mins and that’s a workout! and i did soon after waking up and for
me it was a goodway to start the day…
Boxers and fighters skip A LOT!!!
Can one of you boys go tell them that they are gay to skip!!
I would LOVE to see that!
x
'blu
Dammit, there is a difference between skipping and skipping rope. If you are a man and skip, even in your basement, it makes you gay. Girls can skip all they want, as long as they have the motor skills.
I hope I am not just retarded, but I think the word “skipping” is ambiguous. It could mean rope skipping, which, while also a little girl’s game, is also descent exercise, and does not seem terribly emasculating as it is practiced by many combat sport participants. But “skipping” could also mean a sort of bounding from one leg to the other, where one lands on one leg takes a small hop from that leg to set it up for a bigger jump, and then jumps from the same leg landing now on the other one. I suspect those who consider “skipping” gay are refering to the latter movement, which, in the very least, is extremely flamboyant.
It would not surprise me if the latter form of skipping did burn more calories than running, but it would surprise me if the former (rope skipping) did, even though it does seem to work the calf muscles more.
Sprinters do many skipping drills too
Football players and sprinters do alot of skipping and bounding exercises. Open your minds. I think most people would oppose skipping because as Goldberg said, not everyone is good at it.
Skipping consists of a hop(leaving the ground on one foot and landing on the same foot) and step. It is a distinct locomotor movement.
I usualy rarely post on here, i been reading and posting infrequently since i was a junior in HS(just finished soph year of college)this was before you even needed to sign up for the forum…how many of you rmember those days…i seen alot of people come and go from tmag, and all you new guys who have the feeling that you are more ‘hardcore’ than everyone else kind of bothers me. Like nate said, explore your opportunites, research many sources, and it will broaden your intelligence about not just training but life. Not that i have subscription to mens fitness or any of those magazines nor to i agree with everything thats in there, but still you get my point…and as goldberg and a few others said, skipping or skipping rope, regardless both have their place in training…
im pretty good at the actual locomotion of it, when I was young i used to skip alot, I actually was pretty fast better at it then running :S but im to out of shape now to do it for more then 10min. Its pretty hard x.x
Oh, c’mon…seriously, skipping? I mean, skipping as in the thing a second grade girl does home from school?!? This isn’t about opening your stubborn “hardcore” minds to new training ideas, it’s about freakin’ skipping.
If studies showed that wearing a pink spandex unitard while working out added 2% to your lifts, would you do it? Seriously, would you? I wouldn’t because I’m not going to wear a pink spandex unitard. Period.
And I’m not going to skip either…
Yeah, seriously guys… I see Nate and Deuce are trying to keep an open mind about this whole thing, and I want to explain something to them, here.
Look, we may be the “new kids” on the forum here, but we’re not a bunch of arrogant wanna-be hardcore punks. Yeah, we’re scoffing at the idea of prancing down the street because it’s friggin’ silly. How is that arrogance? I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere, fellas, and this looks like a good spot to do it. DO NOT PRANCE DOWN THE STREET TO TRY TO SAVE TIME ON CARDIO. It actually sounds pretty friggin’ reasonable to me. Call me a goofball, but I’ll go ahead and jog the extra 20 minutes.
Now having said that, I’m assuming that the original poster meant skipping rope, which is fine. I will not feel like a fruitcake skipping rope.
Remember: keeping an open mind does not mean to keep an open ass. 
Nate: my bad. I went back and saw that you were talking about jumping rope, didn’t mean to include you in my rant. Sorry.
There’s nothing inherently gay about skipping. Its how you do it.
I reccommend not flapping your hands like a bird trying to take off.
Skipping rope would seem gay too, if you’re singing nursery rhymes while doing it.
-Dutch
i am all for keeping an open mind but i still refuse to believe that jumping rope burns three times the calories per unit time as running. When i was a skinny little middle distance runner at school i could run 2 miles in ten minutes and in half an hour i could run over 5 miles. i estimated at the time that at my puny bodyweight of 155lbs i burned almost 600 calories in that half an hour. i strongly doubt that i would have been able to jump rope/skip with such intensity that i burned 600 calories in ten minutes.