Skipping
Skipping is one of the cheapest, most effective, fat burning excercises that you can do anywhere. Skipping can be beneficial in your exercise to lose weight as it is so effective in burning calories that an hour of skipping can make you burn up to 1000 calories.
Skipping rope is easy to learn and a very efficient and complete full-body workout. You are integrating resistance training of your calves, hamstrings, shoulders and arms with an incredible cardiovascular workout. In a sense, you are toning your muscles while strengthening your heart. Skipping regularly improves flexibility and aids your coordination and balance. Skipping is also a weight bearing exercise so can help in improving bone density, thus helping stave off osteoporosis.
Remember, it’s important to always keep switching your patterns up as skipping can get boring. You can do double-foot hops, single-foot hops, criss-crosses, toe-to-heel, and even running in one spot. If your arms are starting to burn (which they will), learn how to do side skips and arm-crosses to relieve some of the tension from your arms.
Skipping rope is easy to learn and a very efficient and complete full-body workout. You are integrating resistance training of your calves, hamstrings, shoulders and arms with an incredible cardiovascular workout. In a sense, you are toning your muscles while strengthening your heart. Skipping regularly improves flexibility and aids your coordination and balance. Skipping is also a weight bearing exercise so can help in improving bone density, thus helping stave off osteoporosis.
Remember, it’s important to always keep switching your patterns up as skipping can get boring. You can do double-foot hops, single-foot hops, criss-crosses, toe-to-heel, and even running in one spot. If your arms are starting to burn (which they will), learn how to do side skips and arm-crosses to relieve some of the tension from your arms.