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Over 30 years I began my jump rope career as part of the Juneau Jumpers in Juneau, AK. I’m currently spending Christmas and New Years up in Alaska and last week I had the opportunity to teach the current Juneau Jumpers team. Not just teach, I was asked to also give some history of the team. I will never forget the reason I decided to start jumping rope. My PE teacher, Coach Berry, decided to bring a jump rope team from Colorado up to Juneau and put on some shows at all the schools. I remember watching that show and deciding that I wanted toRead More →

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Almost every year I see an article pop up on one of the news sites stating how the Victoria’s Secret models get in shape. I’m always curious if jump rope is involved in any of their workouts (and mentioned in the article). My assumption is that most of the models do some form of jump rope in their workouts from time to time. This year one of the Victoria’s Secret models by the name of Stella Maxwell made the following quote when talking about her workouts: “I really like jump rope and headstands I love jump rope because it’s a challenge to time yourself toRead More →

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A new study just came out that shows how exercise can help you shed fat (and prevent it from forming) by way of a hormone that is released when you exercise. You can check out the article I read over at science daily. To sum up what they found, a hormone called irisin is released when you exercise (I am going to use jump rope since that is always my focus), and what happens is that when it is released, it boosts “the activity of genes and a protein that are crucial to turning white fat cells into brown cells, the researchers found. It alsoRead More →

Jump Rope for Cardiovascular Health

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The journal Circulation released a statement which found that most children in the U.S. between the ages of 2-19 years old do not meet the American Heart Association’s classification of ideal childhood cardiovascular health. You can read a detailed analysis of how they determine their findings and procedures at the following link. Healthy eating, not smoking, etc. are all important factors in their determination, but I like to focus on the exercise component. I have worked for decades in conjunction with Jump Rope for Heart, which is one of the exercise initiatives of the American Heart Association. In fact, my schedule in January and FebruaryRead More →