Fit Dopers - How much Rope can you skip in a minute?

In My Humble Opinion
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This is for the fit dopers - I don’t want any heart-attacks on my conscious!

How many times can you skip rope in 1 minute? Right now - 120 for me!

Background:

I used to run cross-country in high school. I stuck with it but ended up hating it. This upcoming month I’ll be running a 5k for work and wanted to run a sub 21:00. Did I mention I haven’t run since high school and I’m 26? But, I do swim often, and I weight lift 3 times a week religiously. I also play intense basketball every Monday night. My workout plan to get ready is:

Interval training:
1 minute warm up jog,
1 minute skipping rope as fast as possible
1 minute rest of 6mph jogging
repeat, adding 1 more session until the race. I do this every other day.

Hopefully I’ll be in enough shape to run the 5k. A lot of people think I’ll be sucking wind 10 minutes in, but I think my 10mile/day+ workouts in high school formed a great life base.

So, starting after a light jog, what is your most skips in a minute?

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I’m hoping I got no replies because you’re all fervently skipping and not dead on the floor from the stress of it all.

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Since this is a poll, moved to IMHO (from MPSIMS).

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I can skip so much rope, you don’t even know.

But seriously, I’m 33 and I run A LOT. In the last three years i have done 4 marathons/ultramarathons in each year. Now, i don’t have an answer for your question, but I do remember that the last time I tried skipping rope i was shocked at how hard it was, it really got the heart pumping! I’ve been considering buying a skip-rope lately to change up my workouts, and i think this thread might just push me over the edge and make it happen.

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I was SUPER excited when I managed my first Double-unders skipping in my backyard…

So that’s something skipping-related. :slight_smile:

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That was my next question, actually, if double unders count for two. That will up the overall count quite a bit. :slight_smile:

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They totally count for two in my opinion :wink:

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I don’t know. I’m pretty fit and exercise several times a week but I’m also asthmatic and no activities trigger an asthma attack faster for me than running or skipping rope.

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I’m not very fit, but I can do 100 in a minute.

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Three

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Well, I have a race on Saturday…ran for the first time last night… 3 miles - 24 minutes. Not terrible for not having run since High School. I think I can trim down those last 3 minutes under pressure. I just have to split it better…I gave up too much on the first mile.

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Infinite. I skip the whole procedure!

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I used to be able to skip rope fairly well until I started Crossfit. Now, trying to do Double Unders has screwed up my rhythm so I can’t manage to string together more than a few singles or doubles. More practice I guess.

And doubles definitely count as three.

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Sorry but I had never counted before. And I do my rope skipping outside in my driveway (my basement ceiling is too low) so I have to guess a minute and check the watch. Did 165 and had 4 seconds to go. My dad was a boxer and taught me young, going fast I don’t lift my feet off the ground much. Usually when I jump rope I am working on doubleunders, tring to do every 4th jump a double under, and usually don’t make it to a minute before I miss one. Some people can actually do multiple double unders in a row! That’s pretty amazing.

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I can do maybe…3 double unders in a row, but I never do them as part of my routine, and I have to jump a bit higher.

HOLY COW! 165 in a minute? That is more than 4 a second! :eek:

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I don’t think I can skip.

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Meh. It’s less than 3 a second. (Even giving me credit for a few more in the 4 seconds that I missed in my estimate.) I am sure the really good jumpers do something like 200 per minute and keep it up for a long time. I suspect that you’re not using a fitness jump rope. Or jump high.

I also have to jump high on a doubleunder. I don’t see how those video demo guys manage to not.

My usual routine jumping now is “123double123 …” for 20 seconds or so then “… 123Damn! … 123double123 …” :slight_smile:

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About from an unfit doper? I am about 80 lbs overweight. I can do 140 with little effort and managed 160 when I really poured it on.

However, and it is a big however, I once won a jump rope competition when I was 45 (I am 61), and I did 180 at that time.

Being really good at jump rope helps, fit or not.

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I just had to explain to my coworkers that the whip marks on my forearms are from failed double-unders and not from kinky fun time.

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I uhhh…I can’t explain what the hell happened to my math there. I can’t even figure what I though constituted a minute for that to work…jesus!

I guess the really good double-unders just swing the rope at frightening speed.