A jump rope is the most bang-for-your-buck piece of fitness gear you can buy. That simple string not only creates killer ...

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Jump rope as fast as possible for 30 seconds. Rest for 15 seconds. Repeat for five rounds. Perform double under jumps (where the rope passes under your feet twice per jump) for 20 seconds.

If you haven’t picked up a jump rope since your school days, you’re in for a surprise. Jumping rope packs the same intensity as an 8-minute-mile run or a 20-mile-per-hour bike ride.

The feline set the world record for most skips by a cat in one minute by jumping a rope nine times in 60 seconds Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the ...

This article was medically reviewed by Joey Thurman, CSCS, CPT, FNS, a Chicago-based fitness expert and creator of Fast Results program. Benefits of jumping rope include cardio endurance ...

On a spring day filled with sunshine, the atmosphere was charged with excitement as nearly 620 young contestants gathered for the "Guangcai Cup" elementary school rope skipping competition at Tanzhou ...