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Getting a Jump on Fitness

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I think the title "Getting a Jump on Fitness" and the back cover summary are both misleading.

This book is 155 pages long, containing approximately 170 photos on fitness exercises. Of the 170 photos, approximately 30 are about rope jumping.

I am new to rope jumping for fitness, and was looking for steps, techniques, and rope jumping fitness routines. I didn't find what I was looking for in this book (as I did with "Jumping Rope the Second Time Around" by Carlos Coffman).

If you are looking for a book on fitness exercises which INCLUDE rope jumping, you may find this a useful book. If you are looking for a book ONLY about rope jumping, I cannot recommend this purchase.

To start with:
1: The previous reviewer misread the backcover summary: it says "That you will need other equipment: chairs, groceries...) to create a fitness program. This is necessary for total fitness.
2: There could be more in this book but there isn't. There is the Buddy Lee book that has more like: the biomechanics of rope jumping.
Or Ropesport which also has DVD's which are a boon because you can see and hear how to do various jumps.