10 Jump Rope Benefits You Won’t Want To Skip
Hop to it. Jan 22, 2021
Skipping rope may once have been seen mainly as a pastime for schoolgirls, but there’s a good reason or more accurately, several good reasons it’s also a fav training tool for boxers. “They ve used it for a long time for strength, balance, and cardiovascular exercise,” says William Roberts, MD, director of the Sports Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School. “And when you think about what boxers do, they’re on their toes and moving around, kind of like jumping rope, so it works a lot of the same muscles.”