One of the challenges with running intervals is that quickly changing from jogging to sprinting can pose a potential injury hip flexors.
Jumping rope vs jogging reddit.
Rope skipping is good for quick intense work.
Personally i find running painfully boring.
Let s start with the jump rope.
Both running and jump rope need a balanced combination between legs but the latter does not lose strength as much as the former.
However everyone tells me that jumping rope doesn t activate enough muscles or something and that 15 minutes of sustained roping can t replace a mile of running are there honestly other cardio alternatives.
Your goal is weight loss so you should try to burn as much calories as possible.
10 15 minutes can be plenty start with x number of jumps at the top of each minute add them until you re jumping 30 seconds on 30 seconds off.
It also doesn t use the muscles the same way.
Interval training involves repeated bouts of high and low intensity of varying durations.
Jumping rope vs running for interval training and leg strength.
You can spend 30 minutes every day taking jump rope for body movement.
One of our recent videos talks about how jumping rope burns up to a staggering one thousand and seventy four calories per hour.
Mix your low intensity rope jumping and jogging with high intensity hill sprints and circuit training.
So no it s not really equivalent to running.
According to some science shit jumping rope for 10 minutes is just as effective as jogging at an eight minute per mile pace.
By comparison the 300 500 calories you d be burning in that same time frame jogging looks tiny.
According to science daily this aerobic exercise can achieve a burn rate of up to 1300 calories per hour of vigorous activity with about 0 1 calories consumed per jump ten minutes of jumping rope can roughly be considered the equivalent of running an eight minute mile.
In terms of weight loss jump rope is not as effective as running.
Compared to jogging for 30 minutes jumping rope actually burns more calories.
No rope jumping is more intense than running.
Running you can play around with speeds hills sprints slow jogs etc.
If all your doing all week is low intensity runs and rope jumping you re doing yourself a disservice.
Mix it up man.
In a given time it s more efficient at burning calories than running.