It’s a sad however true fact that more and more children are ending up being obese. With fewer opportunities for exercise and a diet loaded with junk food, the number of obese children is steadily climbing.
Schools don’t have the resources to spend on fitness facilities and lots of parents are too busy working their butts off to spend time doing physically demanding activities with their children so, sadly, it’s all but inevitable that children are getting fatter.
However, if children need to do even more exercise and facilities are thin on the ground, why not motivate them to take up that old playground classic activity of using a jump rope?
Not so many years ago, you could all but guarantee you would see children skipping at break time in schools throughout the country so maybe it’s time that jump ropes were reintroduced to schools or, better still, made compulsory?
Regular schoolyard jump ropes were made of cotton and were simply lengths of rope cut to size. While useable, they weren’t really ideal for a good jump rope session as they easily tangled and were laboriously slow. Technology has leapt ahead enormously since those days of cotton ropes so surely that means jump rope technology has advanced too? You bet!
What is the most effective jump rope for children?
If your kid wants to get more active and develop a healthy and balanced fitness habit, they can now utilize a much better type of jump rope, a speed rope. While designed for adults, speed jump ropes are totally adjustable to suit the needs of a kid. These ropes are fast, smooth and very simple to use and additionally, look pretty awesome too.
Designed for boxers, CrossFitters and other hardcore fitness lovers, speed jump ropes are a joy to use and much easier to handle than the old cotton ropes. With a speed jump rope, your child can be doing tricks like double unders (2 rope turns per single jump) and cross overs in no time at all. Skipping is so much fun that it’s like exercise in disguise which makes it a perfect way to make children more active.
Kid’s jump ropes are usually not really up to the job they are sold for. Too light to turn at a decent speed and not designed for any type of serious use, it’s not surprising that they are marketed as toys instead of physical fitness activities. Instead of buy a kid’s jump rope, investing a little extra on a decent speed jump rope means your kid is a lot more likely to enjoy using it and as a result will keep using it for several years to come. And the fact that they are adjustable means you can alter the rope as your kid grows — upward that is, and not outward …
Skipping ropes are arguably the ultimate in childrens’ exercise tools to help stop the current rise in childhood obesity so why not do your bit by giving your kid the perfect speed jump rope.