Here are some common questions about the benefits of skipping:
How does skipping improve cardiovascular fitness? Skipping is a high-intensity exercise that raises your heart rate and increases blood flow, which can help improve your cardiovascular fitness. Can skipping help me lose weight? Skipping can be an effective way to burn calories and lose weight, especially when combined with a healthy diet. However, it’s important […]
Top 10 Benefits of Skipping
Improves cardiovascular health: Skipping is a high-intensity cardiovascular exercise that can help improve the health of your heart and blood vessels. Increases muscle strength and endurance: Skipping involves a range of muscle groups, including the muscles in your arms, legs, and core, which can help improve muscle strength and endurance. Enhances coordination and balance: Skipping […]
Excess weight can increase risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19
Being obese or excessively overweight increases the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, a new Public Health England (PHE) reportconfirms. The report summarises findings from evidence published during the pandemic on the effects of excess weight and obesity on COVID-19. UK and international evidence suggests that being severely overweight puts people at greater risk […]
The Benefits of Skipping – Tackling Childhood Obesity
When I first qualified as a personal trainer and fitness instructor 25 years ago there was very little in the public arena about what is now the seemingly national and international problem of childhood obesity. So what is it that has changed so dramatically in the lives of children and what can be done about it? […]
The Benefits of Skipping – Exercising your Brain
I have been a member of the team at skip-hop for 12 years and before that I co-ran a company that brought the tuition of Samba percussion to school children. When researching the benefits of Samba and music in the healthy stimulation of developing brains I came across an observation by scientists in California, namely: […]
The Benefits of Skipping – a Healthy Heart
A physical activity like skipping is essential for a healthy heart can also help prevent Coronary Heart Disease. Your heart is a muscle and like any other muscle it gets stronger with exercise. Enjoying a frequent physical activity like skipping enables your heart to become stronger. This means it can pump more efficiently giving you […]
The Benefits of Skipping – Fighting Osteoporosis
What is Osteoporosis Osteoporosis literally means ‘porous bones’. Our bones are made up of a thick outer shell and a strong inner mesh which looks like a honeycomb made up of tiny struts of bone. Osteoporosis means some of these struts become thin or break, making bones more fragile and prone to fracture. It often […]