 yeah hi hi there yeah this is zendude fitness the jump rope hotline oh interesting oh you're new you're new to jumping rope congrats congrats on the journey my dude hell yeah so what seems to be the problem ah very interesting okay so you think because you're a beginner that you're not gonna learn how to be able to jump rope ha ha brandon brandon we have another one we have another one fix you're not gonna be able to jump what's up players what's going on zendu nation this is dan wimmer and today i'm gonna be teaching you how to jump rope if you are a beginner now we have released a video on how to jump rope six basic steps it's linked up check that out if you haven't already but from getting so much great feedback from the youtube community we've started to focus in a little on a little bit more of what you guys really truly need help with if you are a beginner brandon and i first of all cannot thank you guys enough we love the momentum that's building and we love hearing about the stories of people losing weight and living a happier life through doing jump rope in this video we're gonna go over the fundamentals again but we're really gonna focus in on the difficulties that most of you have been telling us that you're facing if you like this tutorial and want more of them give it a thumbs up below go ahead and subscribe to our channel if you want more workouts tutorials and everything involving getting lean with the jump rope and your body after learning how to jump rope if you're a beginner and you want to get started with some workouts that are that kind of ease you into the workouts that we do here at sandu fitness go ahead and click the link below and check out our free four week challenge it's great for beginners if you're advanced it works too but especially good if you're just starting out we also have our recommended jump rope that i'm using in this video linked up below it's cross rope it's awesome it's the best most durable rope that we found thus far so check it out first of all guys just to talk a little bit about what we talked about in the last video you want to measure your rope properly so just a rule of thumb when you're measuring your rope or when you're picking it i want you to step in the middle of it like you see here pull it up to the sides like right on your armpit and the rope cable should actually be right around the nipple area the upper chest area this is a rule of thumb you want to pick a rope that is three feet taller than your height so i'm six three so every rope that i use is right around nine feet three inches as you can see here as i'm just doing regular bounce i'm up on my toes my feet are not coming more than an inch or two off the ground my knees are bent slightly cushioning my impact so my joints don't get hurt my elbows are in and my hands are jutting out to the sides of my hips and my wrists are controlling everything now a mistake that most people make when starting out that we get a lot of feedback about is they do two jumps as you see here for every time the rope swings around i want you guys to get rid of this mentality and start it's the easier way to jump rope but it's not the correct way and if you start off doing that it's going to be a lot harder to get yourself into just doing one skip for every rope turn okay so what i want you guys to do is start off by just hopping one two three four one two three four and get that consistent rhythm down and get used to counting and then envision the rope spinning one time underneath you every time you do that now that brings me to my next point guys this might seem a little bit difficult at first but let's incorporate the rope and all i want you guys to do is practice swinging through one time and then stopping so if you notice here i'm just putting the rope behind my back swinging it once underneath my legs counting one and stopping and then i'm resetting and i'm doing that again all right good now that we have that let's move up to two times so just keep the rope steady and then go one two as you can see here i'll give you guys a little bit of time to get this down and as you see here i'm just going one two and then stopping one two and then stopping good guys now i want you to move up to three one two three and stop one two three and stop what this is doing is training your mind to always associate one rope skip with one time jumping your feet instead of two times jumping your feet and this is essential if you want to spin the rope fast if you want to be able to do a lot of tricks and just overall you know look like a ninja the next thing i want you guys to focus on is jumping only one to two inches off the ground a lot of people when they first start out jumping rope is they jump too high off the ground and this causes shin splints it causes aches and pain in their knees and and ankles and it's just unnecessary guys if you jump rope correctly it is a low impact sport or exercise that is actually better for you than jogging so guys the only trick where we're jumping higher off the ground is really the double under or any trick where you're swinging the rope more than one time through in one hop so for everything else tricks and most tricks included you're just going to be coming two inches off the ground at most maybe a little bit higher sometimes as you watch me here but you want to maintain those bent knees and just cushioning every single hop that you have so you can jump rope for longer periods of time without any pain guys i want to talk about your arms now a lot of people when they start out jumping rope they have these very stiff arms as you can see here in this footage and what this does is it does not allow the rope to be tight when spinning around them so they're really working their shoulders super hard but the problem is there's no forearm or wrist action so the rope is not spinning around tight an analogy that i like to use is think of a baseball player if he's a if there's a pitcher and he is a ball like this and he's throwing it with a straight arm first of all he's not going to be able to throw it that hard and he's probably not going to have that much accuracy as opposed to if he winds up like this and coils it and kind of spins his arm around and throw it you can throw it much faster if you bend your arm the same applies to jumping rope you're not going to be able to spin the rope fast and keep it tight if your arms are super stiff like this you need to make sure you're getting in proper arm motion with your with your forearms so keep the elbows in let the forearms and the wrist do everything they're going to make sure that the rope stays tight as it spins around which will allow you to go faster and do more tricks which brings me to the wrist the most important part that anyone can focus on when jumping rope as a beginner is your wrist now if i turn to the side angle here you can see this little range of motion going on with my wrist just pretend that my wrist socket right here is just a ball bearing and that is swinging the rope around that's how you keep it tight and that's how if you notice here in this footage it looks like i'm pretty effortlessly spinning the rope super fast it's all my wrists i'm treating my wrist just like a ball bearing while slightly bending my arms at 90 degree angles to keep the rope tight putting all this together when you start out practicing i think it's super important for beginners not to go five to six times a week like brandon and myself do now and like many of our other advanced jump ropeers do i'd recommend like i said starting out with the four week challenge and just doing two to three workouts per week and having at least one maybe two rest days in between your workouts to save your to save your body from the pain or some of the shin splints and aches that can come along when you're starting to jump rope yeah i know okay and my mic's also still broken brandon like freaking left to la and left me with this one what a friend huh calls my calls calls me his brother i don't know where the brotherhood is there you know whatever