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  Unless you use a weighted rope.
  Also you lose the coordination gains from using a real jumprope. Those coordination portions work on smaller stabilizer muscles that won't gain strength or control without a jump rope.
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  Unless you use a weighted rope.
  Also you lose the coordination gains from using a real jumprope. Those coordination portions work on smaller stabilizer muscles that won't gain strength or control without a jump rope. >
  
  Well that would be any rope then. >
  
  Any rope you use to jump becomes a jump rope. >
  
  Shower thought about a shower thought. >
  
  Yes, but you won't develop the mental fortitude needed to stary over and over again after the rope painfully and repeatedly hits your toes. >
  
  or the sweet sweet battle bruises >
  
  Or the rage that follows when you trip yourself. >
  
  If you do it right, yes.
  Otherwise, your imaginary rope will always be "not touching your feet", no matter how you jump. So it will be much easier. >
  
  This.
  It's the difference between a treadmill and running outside.
  Yes, you're still getting a workout and it's a million times better than nothing but it's not the real thing and if you switch you'll find out. >
  
  A treadmill on the fastest setting can force you to run faster than you otherwise might, though >
  
  You are entirely correct.
  And also more consistently.
  I didn't say it WASN'T a workout, just not the same.
  The lean alone means your back muscles are worked differently.
  Wind resistance is actually a factor.
  And on the other hand like you said, running on your own you WILL slow down as you get tired unless you have had a LOT of practice.
  In the case of the jump rope /u/Fepl31 is right, you don't realize how high you actually need to push or how fast until you do the actual exercise with a rope. >
  
  Add this to the list of things the powerful jump rope industry doesn't want you to know. >
  
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