As I was training a client this morning, I was watching her “form” whilst she was doing a skipping (jump rope) set. I noticed how great her posture looked… soft knees, stable pelvis and hips, symmetrical spine, shoulders braced down and back, long neck, chin tucked, head level, eyes at horizontal.
I had never thought of skipping as a posture correction exercise before. It’s long been the warm-up of choice for boxers. I use it with my clients for both a great warm-up and also slot it into interval training.
And here’s an exercise author who agrees… click here.
Your challenge today/tomorrow (i’m being lenient as I know you have a long run scheduled for Sunday morning) is to jump rope…
- 100 skips
- 10 double unders
- 90 alternating leg-to-leg skips
- 10 push-ups, 10 double unders
- 80 high knee skips
- 10 dips, 10 push-ups, 10 double unders
- 70 skips opening and closing legs
- 10 chin-ups, 10 dips, 10 push-ups, 10 double unders
- 60 skips kicking heels to butt
- 10 high step jumps (or step ups), 10 chin-ups, 10 dips, 10 push-ups, 10 double unders
- 50 skips
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