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But sometimes running is such an unattractive option isn't it? Half a foot of ice, torrential rain etc..



The beauty of skipping (done correctly) is that it burns far more calories than running (I skip just under lightspeed), it works the upper-half better than running (particularly the shoulders/triceps), trains the grip fabulously, you don't have to run back from wherever you ran to, and can be done indoors away from the filthy weather. Skipping is mental when you learn to do it properly.

Never buy a non-steel rope and get one w/the capacity to add weight to the grips.






I just re-read your post Galpinos - it's wholly obvious that you need to learn to skip.
 
Inspired by you lot (and my incresing beer belly), I've just got back from a run. Did 5.8km cross country in the pissing rain. A tad wet underfoot, but the NBs were very good. Managed just under 6km in 32 mins (works out at 10.75kmh), which ain't bad for me at present.
Houdini: Akis reckons skipping is for girls and gays. And you ain't got no tits, boy.....
 
skipping is waddage. i always use it before training at the school. gets you tres warm. i've too low a boredom threshold, and nowhere to do it. I also have the peak ten minutes away to run in. however I'm struggling with walking currently.
feeling fit and cruising past people in a race is possibly one of the most satisfying things there is (and thats cos you're lapping them, because they ain't gonna be in front)
chappers yeah i know you can run the opposite direction, I still feel too much training on the track can make you injury prone, the bounce alters the gait. (at least this was the percieved wisdom when I was running competitively, ie 10year ago.)
houdinininini if there is one hill where you live run up and down it, when I were a youth in bedford the only hill was in the cemetry. I ran up and down that bastard, and won a few fell races first year i moved to shef...
 
GCW said:
Akis reckons skipping is for girls and gays.



Skipping's for boxers and boulderers, sweetheart

Have you met my friend Nigel?

Benn.Nigel.jpg


He said he was going to sodomize you w/extreme prejudice for suggesting he's pour homme.






(How does skipping compare with other aerobic activities?

One study showed that 10 minutes of skipping can have the same health benefits as a 30 minute run but this will depend on how good at skipping you are. It is also a cheap and fun way of getting fit.
)

Personally I rate the lower impact of skipping, when it's done properly height jumped is measured in mm.
 
saltbeef said:
youth in bedford

Then you know Jeremy Stephenson and Alan Davies?


I want it to freeze again. I ran my circuit in -7°C t'other week: Fresh is the word, mmmmmm . . .
 
If you call seeing Akis end up in a wheelchair 'interesting' then yeah, you could say that.

Unless he was allowed to use his harpoon gun of course.
 
Let the schedule increase.


Skipping - I got one hour into a storming 90 minute clubmix (the orbit, natch) matching beat w/jump. Stopping only to correct failures and drink a swig/grab quick breather (c. 6 or 7 minutes rest in total). Followed by 2 glasses of water, 2 spoons of honey, and over an hour of running. Easy 2000 calories.


This is an indecently relaxed evening. Organic weed pipes and a bottle of Pinot Noir, jessum boss . . .
 
haven't done much skipping since school - houdinin do you need to go outside? do you do it in the rain (or have an big indoor space?)

on a running theme - lager star fish inspired me to link these rather unflattering race shots, couldn't seem to link the pic directly but here are some pics of me in my rather stylish green Totley vest (looking rather large thighed)

eyam half marathon my first race (i'm 190)

buckden pike

haven't done any races in a long while - its bad enough with the boyfriends family all being fell running champions (and bob graham rounders) - and the resultant xmas morning run....
 
We have underground carparking, I skip just at the bottom of the ramp that leads to the carpark. It's out of sight of the other appartments/people, and it's sheltered. I can't do it indoors; It'd play murder with the parke (sp?) flooring and would make an absolute racket.
 
Yes, though that looks a wee bit more sci-fi than mine; metal on the grips is pants, mine are covered in chalk.

Mine cost €12 and they're ace (2nd rope)
 
Try a martial arts shop.


Hills. There's no hills to run up but I have found a vast flight of steps. Will that do? I feel rinsed afterwards: I attack them as fast as I can two steps at a time.
 
Yeah, a good sized set of stairs could give some great interval training. There used to be an annual stair running challenge event in Liverpool, down by the Pier Head, on some huge set of stairs.
 
There's that race up the Empire State building too that looks hardcore........

http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/tourism_specialevents_runup_previous.cfm


.........9 minutes 33 seconds sounds ridiculously quick.

And before Houdini smites me again for posting about something I don't participate in I'd like to point out that I'm a lapsed runner. School cross country and 800m champion. I've just smoked too many fags since then. :(
 
BenF said:
Yeah, a good sized set of stairs could give some great interval training.

I try to run all the stairs at the Hallamshire hospital whenever I'm there. Leaves my leg muscles and lungs feeling well used without hurting the joints. Must start timing myself. Walking all the way back down with legs of jelly is a very strange feeling (reluctant to enter a lift full of people when I'm panting and sweating with the veins on my head popping out like hosepipes).
 
BenF said:
a prolapsed runner? Sounds nasty. :-\

Indeed. I semi-prolapsed one time on the toilet (having taken a lot of magic 'shrooms). Had to push it back in. Not unconnectedly, this was also the occassion I barfed in my pants as they sat round my ankles, whilst on the jobbie.
 


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