HIIT Jump Rope

MichelleRenee13

I have been researching jump roping and HIIT.

I am a beginner so I was wondering if the following would be a good place to start....

5 minute warm up

30 seconds jumping as hard as you can

60 second rest...walking in place.

Rinse and repeat until I can do no more to see what my starting point would be....or 10 rounds to equal 15 minutes.

I would actually be doing it after nerdfitness.com beginners bodyweight circuit training. I am only able to do 1 round of that at the minimum requirements at the moment.

Any thoughts?

MichelleRenee13

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chachadiva150

Why not? Give it a try and see what happens. Jumping rope is great cardio.

sapalee

I can't really comment on your details exactly as I've not done it but I have enjoyed learning to jump rope after not doing it since grade school. Makes you feel like a kid again. I did a workout Sunday with a jump rope that was fun:

Annie (scaled to singles instead of double-unders)

100 jump rope
50 abmat sit-ups

80 JR
40 SU

60 JR
30 SU

40 JU
20 SU

20 JU
10 SU

It took 13 min and some change, I was still geting used to the new rope so that slowed me down (kept getting caught in my right foot)

jcgrant43

Yep. Great plan to start. I've been doing the sort of the same thing for the last month, trying to work my way up to 3 minutes of jumping, two minutes rest for 5 sets. The only problem is I'm uncoordinated, and get tangled up regularly! I need a good skipping song to give me some rhythm!