4 Effective Skipping Exercises To Do To Lose Weight

#3 Single Leg Jumps

Step 1: Take the skipping rope and hold it right at the bottom.

Step 2: Make sure your body is ahead of the skipping rope and start rotating it.

Step 3: Jump up each time the skipping rope comes down after a rotation.

Step 4: When the skipping rope comes down, jump only on your right leg.

Step 5: Do 20 skips only jumping on your right side.

Step 6: Change the side. After each rotation of the skipping rope, jump on your left leg.

Step 7: Do 20 jumps on the left leg as well.

Single-legged skips require the most amount of concentration and balance. While they are not difficult to do, it is difficult to be consistent in single legged skips. This is mainly for two reasons: first, that your legs should have enough strength to support single legged skips. And secondly because to do more than 50 single legged jumps one needs a combination of balance and concentration. Single legged jumps work out the calf muscles, hamstrings and inner thighs in the lower body. In the upper body they workout one's wrist and triceps, while always toning your abdominal muscles.

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#4 Criss Cross Jumps

Step 1: Take the skipping rope and hold it right at the bottom.

Step 2: As you rotate the skipping rope, ensure that you are standing in front of it and that it is behind your body.

Step 3: Rotate the skipping rope and as it comes down, jump over it.

Step 4: Keep jumping with each rotation.

Step 5: As your momentum builds up, cross your arms across each other during the rotation.

Step 6: As you cross your arms with each rotation, the direction and momentum of the skipping should not change.

Step 7: As you cross your arms during the rotation and as the skipping rope comes down, jump over it,

Step 8: Do 30 cross overs.

After double unders, criss-cross jumps are the hardest skipping exercise. Like all skipping exercises, criss-cross jumps also require stamina, strength and concentration. However what criss-cross jumps require is a huge amount of coordination. Coordination with your upper body and lower body, along with a certain amount of momentum to also switch to criss-cross jump in the first place.

Criss-cross jumps tone one's obliques in a huge manner and also workout one's biceps and triceps.

Do criss-cross jumps for atleast one minute and make sure you don't hit yourself with the skipping rope while crossing over because it hurts a lot!