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JumpRock Exercises and Variations
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Beginning Jump Rope: Beginning Jump Rope
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Beginning Jump Rope Beginning Jump Rope Watch Watch
Warmup Warmup, Stretching, Restraint Watch Watch
Lower Back Overstressed Lower Back Watch Watch
Shoulder, Pects, Abs Creeping Into Crossovers Watch Watch
Legs, Hips, Glutes Circles - Evolution Of The Revolution Watch Watch
Abdominals JumpRock and Abdominal Muscles Watch Watch
Thighs, Hips Feet Separate, Scissors, Variations Watch Watch
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  • When doing upright crunches, it's easier to focus on the stomach muscles than when doing regular crunches but difficult to get the same intensity because of gravity; you need to lean back as far as possible so your stomach muscles have to work against gravity to pull your head and shoulders up and forward.
  • When doing upright crunches, you can pull your shoulder toward your opposite hip. You can also apply that effort at different angles, such as the opposite ribcage, or the shoulder on the same side. Or lean left and use your left oblique to pull yourself upright. There are literally an infinite number of angles you can apply.
  • With any of these crunches, don't expect to be able to focus perfectly on the abdominals. The more you do it, the more you can do it. It may feel like you're doing almost nothing at first. If so, you should look forward to the first moment when the muscles start to respond and you can feel the difference.
  • Really savor new sensations, like feeling your stomach muscles, or the illusion of strong rods running up inside your back from your hips through your shoulder blades - which a few days later turn into encasing support columns that wrap from your back to your front on each side. They're amazing when they happen, but they always fade into the background within one or two days. They're still there if you think about it, but the novelty wears off. Fortunately new ones always come along to replace them. It ends somewhere, but there's no end in sight.
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