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Scott Robert-Shaw - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
I am the Director of skip-hop Ltd. We are a company that has developed a mix of skipping and hip-hop style street dance to make 'skip-hop'. We teach this in schools, sports colleges, and gyms in the UK, ireland and Brazil. We also provide more traditional skipping workshops which we take into schools, sports clubs, leisure centres and gyms. We take the approach that the provision of as many free resources as possible will ... [More]
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- 10 Reasons Why Skipping is the Best Sport in the World!
[Health-and-Fitness] Skipping or Jump rope as it is called in some parts of the world is, in my opinion, simply the single most beneficial and all encompassing sport or form of exercise! It can be performed practically anywhere and practised alone or as a group activity. Skipping can also be incorporated into everyone's lifestyle as a discipline in its own right or incorporated into training to bring performance benefits to any other sport. It can be used as a gentle warm up or low level activity or performed as a high intensity exercise. Oh, and it is simply great fun!
- Mental Benefits of Skipping - Jumping Rope
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Though I am now a member of the team at skip-hop I have for the last few years also helped run a company that brings tuition of Samba percussion to school children. When researching the benefits of Samba and music in the healthy stimulation of developing brains I came across an observation by scientists in California, namely: Music education exercises the part of the brain that governs spatial perception and abstract reasoning skills. It occurs to me that there are many parallels between the learning of music and rope skipping.
- Benefits of Skipping
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] skip-hop have produced skipping workout and skipping workshops programs, carefully designed to improve your levels of fitness, agility, coordination and general health. If you think about it, can it be a coincidence that almost all professional sportsmen and women use skipping as part of their daily workout routine.
- Skipping Benefits - Fighting Osteoporosis
[Health-and-Fitness] Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bones'. Our bones are made up of a thick outer shell and a strong inner mesh which looks like a honeycomb made up of tiny struts of bone. Osteoporosis means some of these struts become thin or break, making bones more fragile and prone to fracture. It often remains undetected until a bone is first broken, which commonly occurs in the wrists, hips and spinal bones. One in two women and one in five men over the age of 50 in the UK will fracture a bone, mainly as a result of osteoporosis.
- Skipping or Jumping Rope For a Healthy Heart
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] A physical activity like skipping is essential for a healthy heart can also help prevent Coronary Heart Disease. Your heart is a muscle and like any other muscle it gets stronger with exercise. Enjoying a frequent physical activity like skipping enables your heart to become stronger. This means it can pump more efficiently giving you more stamina and greater energy.
- Skipping (Jump Rope) And Childhood Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] When I first qualified as a personal trainer and fitness instructor 15 years ago there was very little in the public arena about what is now the seemingly national and international problem (in certain countries) of childhood obesity. So what is it that has changed so dramatically in the lives of children and what can be done about it? Quite clearly there are many factors to the problem and likewise many aspects to the solution.
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