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This exercise not only develops your stamina and leg
muscles, but also improves you, makes you "light on your feet." Only recently,
physiologists have learned, by several tests, that skipping rope is more beneficial
than jogging. Ten minutes of skipping rope is equivalent to 30 minutes of jogging.
Both are very beneficial exercises for the cardiovascular system.
Skipping rope properly is one of the best exercises for developing a sense of
balance. First, skip on one foot, holding the other in front of you; then rotate your
foot, skipping on the alternate foot with each revolution of the rope, from a gradual
pace to a really fast tempo. Minimize your arm-swing; instead, use your wrists to
swing the rope over. Lift your foot slgihtly above the ground, just enough for the
rope to pass. Skip for three minutes (equivalent to a round in a boxing match); then
rest one minute only, before you continue for another round. Three rounds of this
exercise are sufficient for a good workout. As you become conditioned to skipping,
you can omit the rest period and do the exercise for as long as 30 minutes straight.
The best rope is made of leather with ball bearings in the handles.
Additional endurance exercises are shadowboxi ng and actual sparring.
Shadowboxing is a good agility exercise which also builds up your speed. Relax
your body and learn to move easily and smoothly. At first concentrate on your form
and move with lightness on your feet until it becomes natural and comfortable- then
work faster and harder. It is a good idea to start your workout with shadowboxing to
loosen your muscles. Imagine your worst enemy stands before you and you are
going to demolish him. If you use your imagination intensely, you can instill into
yourself an almost real fighting frame of mind. Besides developing stamina,
shadowboxing increases your speed, creates ideas and establishes techniques to
be used spontaneously and intuitively. Going several rounds is the best way to
learn proper footwork.
Too many begineers are too lazy to drive themselves. Only by hard and continuous
exercise will you develop endurance. You have to drive yourself to the point of
exhaustion ("out of breath" and expect muscle ache in a day or two). The best
endurance training method seems to be a lengthy period of exercise interspersed
with many brief but high-intensity endeavours. Stamina-types of exercise should be
done gradually and cautiously increased. Six weeks in this kind of training is a
minimum for any sports that require considerable amount of endurance. It takes
years to be in peak condition and, unfortunately, stamina is quickly lost when you
cease to maintain high conditioning exercises. According to some medical experts,
you lose most of your benefit from exercises if you skip more than a day between
workouts.