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Jenna Lookner lives on her family farm in Camden. Always curious, she enjoys exploring her natural, cultural and epicurean surroundings with her husband and three rescued mutts.
Jumping Rope
TO RUN FASTER By Heidi Walls, MD
Fitness trends come and go, but jumping rope might be one exercise for runners to adopt. Plyometric training—a form of intense training that generates strength at a high speed—leads to neuromuscular adaptations, including increased power and stiffness, which can improve running performance. Jumping rope requires quick rebounds that recruit mainly the foot muscles and joints, a type of plyometric training that would be useful for runners. A recent study in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance set out to investigate this. A group of amateur runners were randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group. The experimental group modified their regular warm-up routine to include jumping rope for two to four sessions per week with a total time of 10 to 20 minutes per week. After 10 weeks, runners in the experimental group had greater arch stiffness and statistically significant improvement in their three-kilometer run time compared to the control group. So, for runners looking for a way to increase their speed, incorporating jump rope training drills into their warm up may be a great way to do so. Dust off that jump rope and get going!
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Reference article: García-Pinillos F, Lago-Fuentes C, Latorre-Román PA, PantojaVallejo A, Ramirez-Campillo R. Jump-Rope Training: Improved 3-km Time-Trial Performance in Endurance Runners via Enhanced Lower-Limb Reactivity and FootArch Stiffness [published online ahead of print, 2020 Mar 12]. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2020;1-7. doi:10.1123/ijspp.2019-0529
