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Summary: Jumping rope is a traditional exercise for endurance, agility, and speed; practice agility training for sports or martial arts in this free workout video.
Unique Anderson is a certified personal trainer and former college basketball player who is currently working on her master's degree in Exercise Physiology.read more
"Basic outdoor agility drill. Interval training, jump rope. The oldest exercise in the book. What you want to do is focus on keeping your core engaged and only going at your own fitness level. Again, if you're not Mohammad Ali, I'm not expecting you to go back and forth. If you're just a basic person just getting back into the swing of things, you keep your body in motion. Always in motion. Chest upright, always in motion. Now with that same jump rope, you could go, bring it down onto the floor, make a line with it, and you could go into, over, over, over, over, just to have a guide of what you want to do laterally. Over, over, over. Bring that jump rope back up and go right back into that jump rope again. Because what the thing is, what you want to focus on, is constantly keeping your body moving. So that you can stay warm and that you get the best exercise possible."
eHow Article: Outdoor Jump Rope for Agility Training