How Effective Is Skipping For Weight Loss?

Skipping- One of the cheapest, most effective fat burning workouts you can do. Plus it's fun too. Believe it or not, skipping involves almost every muscle in your body. The more muscle work during an exercise, the more calorie you burn, and you can play with the intensity too. Skipping will also help improve cardio-respiratory fitness, flexibility and co-ordination. As a high-impact exercise skipping is great for building bones and a good exercise to trim hips, thighs and backsides! 

Highly portable and very convenient, skipping can be done in most places. According to the British Rope Skipping Association, 10 minutes of skipping can have the same health benefits as a 45 minute hard run. For those of us who have hectic lifestyles where fitting in exercise is always a struggle - this is great news. Here are a few of the benefits of getting a skipping rope…

• Improves heart rate and blood pressure
• Cheap and convenient, so once you've bought your rope, skipping is a zero-cost workout.
• Almost anyone can do it at a level that suits them
• Promotes fat loss
• Improves flexibility
• Improves co-ordination and balance
• Improves muscle tone in both the lower and upper body
• Can help in improving bone density
• The effort it takes to jump rope for 10 minutes is the equivalent of running a mile in eight minutes.
• Skipping is a weightbearing exercise so can help in improving bone density, thus helping stave off osteoporosi.
• One hour of rope skipping will burn up to 1,300 calories.