Casey the trainer made us jump rope yesterday in our Torture Tuesday session. This ranks right up there with running on my list of heavy chick no-no's.
Uh, have you ever seen an overweight person jump up and down as many times as they can in a minute? It isn't pretty.
I was Jiggly McJigglester. AND, I had to watch myself in the ginormous mirrors of the aerobics room as I jumped and jiggled repeatedly. (I wanted to run away screaming.) I tried my hardest to suck everything in nice and tight so that there would be less shaking and wiggling about. I don't know that it helped all that much, but I felt better for doing it.
I complained to Casey that there was too much jostling about and he kindly informed me that jumping rope actually will help tighten everything up. Not to mention it's a good cardio workout. Ok. Whatever. I guess I'll believe him... for now.
5 comments:
I am right there with you. I hate it when my trainer asks me to jump rope, jump up and down with my arms reaching up to the sky, or do jumping jacks. I thought jumping of any kind was bad for your knees? Right?! ;P (at least that's what we should tell our trainers, that we just read a study out on jumping and how it's bad for your knees and . . .) Think it'll work? :D
I think Casey, the masochist is right. Purdy told me the same thing. Best overall exercise you can do because it's the only one that involves all the big muscle groups at one time.
Damn
At least you don't pee yourself with every jump. Because I do.
I.HATE.JUMPING.ROPE!
I would rather jump rope than run. But only by a little bit...
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