I Did 30 Minutes of Jump Rope EVERY DAY for 30 Days

when i think of jump rope i think of either some absurdly shredded boxer or i think of like a seven-year-old school girl doing double dutch and that's it which raises the question why aren't more people jumping rope just think about it it's cheaper than cycling more accessible than the gym and easier on your body than running so i want to try it out for myself hi my name is cam and every day for the next 30 days i'm gonna jump rope for 30 minutes my goal is to see how much my body will change and

hopefully show how beneficial jump rope can be for an average joe like myself on day one i weigh in at 151.9 pounds with a body fat percentage of 16.3 percent in addition to any physical changes i also want to test one more thing yo do you think if i skipped with a weighted row for 30 days that i could beat you in a in a strength competition seriously yeah no that's a stupid question challenge accepted for my training i'm going to be using a series of ropes from crossrope who were kind enough to sponsor this

video i'll be using their speed rope as well as their one pound weighted rope which sounds light but yo that's weighty dude you're gonna struggle to get a sense of where i'm at on day one i do a timed skip with the one pound rope oh where do you feel here so much here lasting only one minute with the weighted rope i decide to change up my approach i opt to start out just using the speed rope to see if i can get closer to my 30 minute workout goal but even with the speed rope

i can still only go for three minutes straight before i'm exhausted [Music] so with lots of breaks i make my way through my first 30 minute workout [Music] this is [Music] as i go on my skipping gets slower and my brakes get longer and it really feels like this is the longest 30 minutes of my life [Music] the next day i head out early in hopes of having a better day too but somehow it actually gets more painful [Applause] whether it's my leg or my finger or my arm i'm getting whipped by my jump rope

every workout and sometimes it's pretty bad so i got smoked pretty good the other day while i was skipping and uh check out this bruise all right for reference this is my regular finger and then this is my bros finger bro look at that this skipping rope is out to kill what the heck feeling the pains of my first week i really want to focus in on improving my technique to hopefully avoid some bruises in week two starting from the feet the whole way to the top up on your toes like your heels should never

touch the ground your knee should be slightly bent you want to keep your elbows in at your side when you're jumping your shoulders should be back so you should really feel the jump rope engaging like all of your back muscles and then the last thing would be just eyes straight forward this is dan from the youtube channel jump rope dudes a channel that's amassed over a million subscribers from teaching the benefits of jumping rope i reached out to dan with a video of me skipping to see if he could give me some pointers so your

form and immediately is like pretty good looks like your right elbow is in the whole way to your body but your left looks like sticks out a little bit i would say keep your head up because it should basically be like a straight line from the crown of your head the whole way down to your heels one last piece of feedback try to stay in the same spot like briefly you kind of backed up and went forward a little bit the biggest piece of feedback i would give is to try and create that symmetrical shape

so like one thing that we tell people is jump rope in front of a mirror that would be my only feedback but you're definitely on your way man that's great sweet i'm glad i'm in the in the right direction that's encouraging to hear you definitely are bro you're doing good [Applause] while i'm not able to practice with a mirror i start watching my workouts back to try and hone my technique specifically focusing in on keeping my head up to keep good alignment keeping my elbows tucked in towards my torso and trying to jump in the

same spot and the more i practice the more i start to enjoy my workouts and am really able to push myself [Music] it's my first time passing 300 calories in a skipping workout we smoke some sweating buckets with every day that i practice i feel like i get better and i really start to have some fun with it except for when i still whip myself with the rope oh and of course with skipping every single day comes recovery which also isn't very fun it is day 15 we are halfway through this challenge in holy smokes

have i seen some improvement first off when i started this challenge i was only able to skip for three consecutive minutes with the speed rope now i'm skipping five minutes second my footwork has improved so much i now have a bunch of different steps in my repertoire and i'm even starting to do some double unders and a few tricks oh yeah i'm also in the works of learning a 360 but uh right now i just kind of look like handsome squidward how stupid does that look pretty bad so definitely lots of positives however on the

other side of things i'm getting a little bit nervous about this final challenge with brendan the reason being i've been so focused on using the speed rope and having so much fun with that that uh yeah i haven't touched a weighted rope for the entire challenge so in hopes of not embarrassing myself by the end of this i'm gonna be focusing more in on using the weighted rope over these next two weeks and hopefully i can see as much improvement with the weighted rope as i have with the speed rope the next day i time

myself to see if i've made any improvements from where i started with the weighted rope [Music] 120 that's not good enough i gotta get better the weighted rope is a whole different experience from the speed rope while the motion is the same it really tires your forearms and shoulders out quickly making practicing with it pretty don't know if you can see this but my hand is shaking my forearms are getting wrecked from these weighted rope workouts to make things a little easier i settle in on a workout of 10 minutes of speed rope followed by

10 minutes of weighted rope with lots of brakes of course and then finishing with another 10 minutes of speed rope and with my workout routine locked in the final week approaching all that's left to do is finish this challenge strong [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] we have made it today is the final day and normally i feel nervous doing final tests or challenges but uh right now i just kind of feel excited and i think that's because win or lose with this final competition this challenge has been a huge success i've seen improvements

in my foot speed and coordination my cardio i feel stronger honestly i just feel like jump rope is such a good mix of fun and good exercise and if you want to make exercising a lasting habit one of the best things you can have is an element of fun to it and i think jump rope is like the perfect vehicle for that so i guess all that's left in this challenge is to uh go be brendan let's get it the challenge is simple who can skip the longest with the weighted rope the only other element

is that if you mess up your time stops you have to go do five overhead presses with the dumbbell then back to skipping the longest time wins and brendan is up first here we go three two one go brendan gets off to a really great start crushing his first minute easily but by the minute 30 mark the fatigue starts to set in i don't like it i don't like this and with that fatigue comes mistakes five overhead presses later and brendan is looking gassed that's it that's that's good with two minutes to beat now it's

my turn here we go let's see how much i've improved what was your day one i could barely make it to one minute doing this three two one go just like brendan i make it through the first minute pretty painlessly but things start to turn for the worse after that yeah my arms i really feel it with pain and discomfort setting in all i can do is focus in and try to make it past two minutes let's go with the satisfaction of knowing i've beat brendan from here i honestly don't really know what comes over

me i get a second wind and keep going focusing my sights solely on how far i can push myself let's freaking go my arms come on [Music] oh my gosh yo i don't know oh my gosh oh my arms are so bad i started out doing this for one minute one minute let's go that's a wrap [Applause] oh my gosh on my final weigh-in i've gone from 151.9 pounds down to 149 pounds with a 0.3 percent drop in body fat most of all i'm excited to have discovered a new form of exercise that i really

love which i'd say makes this challenge a huge success before i go i do want to say a big thank you to crossroad for sponsoring today's video honestly i think this is one of my favorite sponsors that we've worked with crossroad provides amazing products that are great for providing a versatile and full body workout one thing that i really like about crossrobes ropes are that they have interchangeable handles so you can switch from a speed rope to a weighted rope and really maximize your workouts with a versatile full body effective workout another great thing about

cross rope is that any time you buy a cross rope it comes with free access to their app which is filled with follow along workouts that can get you started with ease overall i just think jump rope is one of the most fun exercises and is such an accessible way for people to get into exercise and have a little bit of fun with it too so if you want to check out crossroad for yourself you should definitely head to the link down in the description and yeah give give skipping a try for yourself i hope

you have as much fun with it as i have and yeah i'll see you in the next one peace