4.21.2007
Yesterday's Workout
As I have mentioned previously, I have really been having some great results with adding rope jumping into my workouts. Here's a look at what I did for yesterdays workout:
I like to train over by the basketball arena here in town. You can see for a couple miles in each direction - makes you feel like King of The World.
So anyhow, yesterday I strapped on a heart rate monitor, grabbed my Jump rope, and headed on over.
As a side note, I recommend having a good heart rate monitor, it's nice to know how hard you are actually working. You can get a pretty basic model relatively inexpensively.
I also recommend having a digital watch with a timer function.
The order of the day was pretty simple:
In the workout I mentioning a few days ago I suggested rope jumping sprints - 30 seconds on/30 seconds off for 10 minutes as a good one to try.
I figured that might be fine for normal people but I like to push the limit so I went for that schedule for 20 minutes straight.
I averaged somewhere between 108 and 87 jumps per 30 second 'round.'
Let me tell you, this really gets the blood pumping. I also like the fact that the wrist rotation helps increase recovery and cut down on forearm soreness from tough grip workouts.
When the 20 minutes were up, I did four additional rounds - two rounds of vacuums and two rounds of the Farmer Burns Stomach flattener.
The interesting thing is that my heart rate kept the same pattern for the breathing exercise stuff and didn't drop until I was all through. Seems like the motor was still running, even when it was still in park, so to speak.
It was a great workout, a relatively simple one, but also as challenging
as you want to make it.
Give it a shot sometime and let us know how it goes.
Train hard,
John Wood
I like to train over by the basketball arena here in town. You can see for a couple miles in each direction - makes you feel like King of The World.
So anyhow, yesterday I strapped on a heart rate monitor, grabbed my Jump rope, and headed on over.
As a side note, I recommend having a good heart rate monitor, it's nice to know how hard you are actually working. You can get a pretty basic model relatively inexpensively.
I also recommend having a digital watch with a timer function.
The order of the day was pretty simple:
In the workout I mentioning a few days ago I suggested rope jumping sprints - 30 seconds on/30 seconds off for 10 minutes as a good one to try.
I figured that might be fine for normal people but I like to push the limit so I went for that schedule for 20 minutes straight.
I averaged somewhere between 108 and 87 jumps per 30 second 'round.'
Let me tell you, this really gets the blood pumping. I also like the fact that the wrist rotation helps increase recovery and cut down on forearm soreness from tough grip workouts.
When the 20 minutes were up, I did four additional rounds - two rounds of vacuums and two rounds of the Farmer Burns Stomach flattener.
The interesting thing is that my heart rate kept the same pattern for the breathing exercise stuff and didn't drop until I was all through. Seems like the motor was still running, even when it was still in park, so to speak.
It was a great workout, a relatively simple one, but also as challenging
as you want to make it.
Give it a shot sometime and let us know how it goes.
Train hard,
John Wood
Labels: Cardio, Jumping Rope, Training Ideas
