First of all, I love skipping rope. There’s a lot of jump rope work in my app. But the common rhetorical question these elicit of “why not just jump rope” oft said by NAPs (non athletic people) the polite acronym for NAFs ( non athletic fuckheads), is easily answered. 1. These, like jump rope, offer a form of easy plyometrics, or extensive plyometrics. But since there is no need to coordinate your hands with the rope you can more easily focus on the stiffness of the bounce rather than achieving