Skipping rope recommendation.

[Louis Balfour]

My children are struggling to get enough exercise during lockdown. We've got a rower and we walk when we can, but I want to try them with skipping.

Ebay and Amazon is stuffed with them, but I imagine some are next to useless.

Can anyone suggest one that is not expensive but not going to put them off please.

[cliffe_mafia]

I'll be interested to see what other people think but personally I wouldn't spend more than about a fiver on one. I've got 6 including "speed ropes" that I use and the cheapest one is just as good as the ones that were £10-20. My daughter (14) prefers her weighted hulahoop - that thing is brutal


ETA: Something like this -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syolee-Skipping-Lightweig...

Just make sure you adjust it so the handles reach the armpits when you're stood on the rope.

Edited by cliffe_mafia on Friday 29th January 08:46

[Louis Balfour]

cliffe_mafia said:

I'll be interested to see what other people think but personally I wouldn't spend more than about a fiver on one. I've got 6 including "speed ropes" that I use and the cheapest one is just as good as the ones that were £10-20. My daughter (14) prefers her weighted hulahoop - that thing is brutal

I am NOT buying a hulahoop. The indignity of a middle-aged man hulahooping is not something from which I could recover.

[rednotdead]

I've tried a couple from amazon and this one is the best of the few sub £10 ropes I've had: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B087BJFSJT/ref...

[Louis Balfour]

rednotdead said:

I've tried a couple from amazon and this one is the best of the few sub £10 ropes I've had: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B087BJFSJT/ref...

Ordered!

Many thanks.