Training Tips offers miscellaneous suggestions and things to consider with your own training. Comment at the bottom of the posts, and please let me know if there is a topic you would like me to cover!
Thank you for taking the time to read.
-Drew
Too many get caught up in doing an exercise completely perfectly. Sometimes so much, that it deters them from even doing an exercise.
If you are new to an exercise, you should expect it to feel imperfect. Just get doing something. Over time, you will refine it into a more and more perfect movement.
The only way to get good at something is to first be bad at something.
When crossing the jump rope, make sure to...
1. Keep the hands at waist level.
2. Create enough of a cross with the hands.
Watch the video below for more...
For regular rope skipping, it is preferred to generate rope speed by turning only the wrists, and refraining from involving the arms.
When you move to crossing the jump rope, it is exactly the opposite. If you are still expending effort trying to turn your wrists as you cross back and forth, your crosses will be too slow, and eventually the rope speed will get out of synch with your foot speed.
Watch this video...
Last training tip, I instructed you to continue adding velocity to the jump rope. I've found that it is easiest to do this by "snapping" at the wrists, instead of rotating them in a circular motion. This will be a faster action, and will conserve more energy.
