How Skipping Helps You Lose Weight

Everyone is looking for fun and effective ways to lose weight, and skipping is one of these ways. Do you remember when you were young, skipping rope with your friends and didn’t have extra weight to shed? Ahhh the memories… And the good news is, you’re never too old to act like a kid.

Skipping is fun and besides that, it boosts the heart rate and helps you lose those extra calories. If you have not yet included skipping into your workout routine, then you should.

How skipping helps with weight loss

Skipping is an excellent idea to lose weight because it involves all the body muscles. It tones and shapes up your hips, stomach, thighs, and buttocks, and swinging the rope gives your arms a workout.

Skipping rope really is a total body workout, and you don’t have to do it for hours to get the rewards. It develops a more efficient energy system, which allows the body to burn off more fat.

Remember, the more muscles you involve in the exercise, the more calories you’re going to lose. If you’re a beginner, begin with low intensity then increase the intensity as you gain more control and coordination.

How Many Calories Does SKipping Burn?

The number of calories you burn while skipping is dependent on two factors: your weight and the intensity of your workout. If you’re heavier, you will apply more energy and this will result in the burning of more calories as compared to a less heavy person.

Also, if your skipping is more intensive, you’ll end burning more calories and shedding off more weight. Depending on your weight and intensity level, you may burn between 70-110 calories in a ten-minute skipping session.

An hour of skipping, at an average speed may result in losing between 600 and 900 calories. This is one incredible workout!

Tips to Skip More Effectively

•  Use a high-quality skipping rope with the right length.
•  Consider skipping barefooted because it will strengthen your legs more
• Get enough space for your skipping exercise to ensure that your rope doesn’t get stuck.
• Skipping is highly intensive. Consider a warm-up exercise before skipping.
• Don’t jump too high.
• Relax and don’t push yourself to high intensities.
• Practice to gain more control and coordination.

Other Exercises To Help You Lose Weight

•  Walking – An easy exercise that helps to tone your hips, legs, and stomach.
• Swimming – Helps to lose weight and tones the whole body.
• Yoga – A relaxing way to shed extra weight and improve flexibility.
• Dancing to lose weight!
• Running/jogging
• Cycling
• Body weight training

General Weight Loss Tips

• Set weight loss goals, write them down and stick to them.
• Keep track of your weight loss journey.
• Avoid high carb foods and junk foods.
• Drink enough water.
• Weight loss may be a challenge, consider joining a weight loss support group and exercising with a friend.
• Never skip any meal

Unlike other types of exercises, skipping is approximately 60% lower body and 40% upper body activity. By involving your arms, you’re engaging deltoids, chest, biceps, triceps, and almost all the upper body muscles as well as the legs muscles.

Skipping has a low impact on ankles, knees, and hips and has a high impact on muscles, lungs and heart. By introducing the various skipping tricks, i.e. side-swings, pretzels, crossovers etc, almost all the other muscle groups are instantly and automatically involved, thus offering the benefits of an all-over workout.