I was too fat to go jogging, so I got a jump rope.
At first I could barely do one jump rope jump. I would do it real slow with like an extra jump between revolutions lol.
Eventually I could do regular jump rope jumping pretty well, without extra jumps, and pretty quick too. Once I could do a hundred jumps in a row without screwing them up, I started trying other things with the rope, like jumping on one foot.
I tried to do the cross-over jumping, and found I couldn’t do it. It was too hard and I was still too fat to have the right coordination. I got on YouTube to watch people demonstrating how to do it. I wondered if my jump rope might be too short for me. Finally, I figured out how to do it, but I could only do it a couple times in a row. I found the cross-over jump roping to be way more taxing than regular jump roping, which is great, since you know it’s intensifying the routine that much more.
Although I started to get better at the cross-rope jumping, I eventually found that I was more likely to trip myself up to a stop before I stopped of my own volition after being tired. Which is frustrating, even if very helpful in hammering home a metronomish zen that carries over into musical exploits quite usefully.
I pretty much default to jogging but if you don't want to go anywhere, jump rope is the next best exercise IMO
At first I could barely do one jump rope jump. I would do it real slow with like an extra jump between revolutions lol.
Eventually I could do regular jump rope jumping pretty well, without extra jumps, and pretty quick too. Once I could do a hundred jumps in a row without screwing them up, I started trying other things with the rope, like jumping on one foot.
I tried to do the cross-over jumping, and found I couldn’t do it. It was too hard and I was still too fat to have the right coordination. I got on YouTube to watch people demonstrating how to do it. I wondered if my jump rope might be too short for me. Finally, I figured out how to do it, but I could only do it a couple times in a row. I found the cross-over jump roping to be way more taxing than regular jump roping, which is great, since you know it’s intensifying the routine that much more.
Although I started to get better at the cross-rope jumping, I eventually found that I was more likely to trip myself up to a stop before I stopped of my own volition after being tired. Which is frustrating, even if very helpful in hammering home a metronomish zen that carries over into musical exploits quite usefully.
I pretty much default to jogging but if you don't want to go anywhere, jump rope is the next best exercise IMO
