Looking for a great aerobic exercise to do at home?

This type of exercise is just too nice...it's aerobic, improves your balance,agility, coordination and your speed as well as improves your core strength and helps develop nice sexy back muscles.

Whats even better is that you can do it anywhere...at home, on holiday, in doors, outdoors or where you want to and all you need is one piece of equipment....a skipping rope!!!

Before you can start skipping you need to make sure your rope is the correct length for you. To do this you stand on the rope and lift it up, the skipping rope handles should come up to your arm pits.  When they do, you know you’ve got the right length.

Like any other form of exercise you need to start off slow...you don't want to go overboard and then not try again so ideally you want to skip at a nice moderate pace or a pace you are comfortable with for 30 seconds and then rest for 15seconds and repeat as many times as you can. If that is too relaxed for you go ahead and skip for 45 seconds and rest for 15 seconds. It all just depends on what you feel comfortable with and how fit you are.

Take time and build it up...if you can only skip for 10 min today keep it at that and then try for 20 min next week...just keep on listening to your body. Then when you start getting used to that try different skipping styles. Different styles will again start using different muscles.

I will post a few pictures of the different styles for you to try out.

Basic jump: jumping off both feet and landing on both

Alternating: as if you are running on the same spot.

Combination: do 8 basic and 8 alternating

High jump: same as alternating just that you lift your knee high towards your chest

Endurance: Any of the jumps and you try go for as long as you can with 1min breaks in between