Jumping rope builds your fitness, athletic skills, and even your mindset in ways few other exercises can match. When you look at the list of benefits below, it’s easy to see why boxers are particularly keen on this form of training, but these are advantages the average guy surely wants to develop as well:
- Serves as a whole body workout that incorporates all the muscle groups
- Works the body’s anaerobic and aerobic systems and efficiently burns calories
- Builds speed and quickness
- Develops overall balance, coordination, timing, and rhythm
- Intensifies power and explosiveness
- Increases reaction time and reflexes
- Gets an athlete comfortable with being in the “readiness position” — on the balls of the feet
- Enhances agility and nimbleness — lightness on the feet
- Offers practice in moving through all planes of space — up, down, backward, forward, and side-to-side
- Enhances ability to accelerate and decelerate while keeping one’s balance
- Develops body control and awareness
- Cultivates greater ability to synchronize the lower and upper body
- Increases hand-eye coordination
- Strengthens mental discipline and mindfulness (in calling upon one’s powers of concentration)
