skipping on concrete - good or bad

[Dan]

post thoughts
i do it everday and my shins hurt a bit but nothing serious yet; just gotta strech alot

[RDJ]

Irrelevant IMO. If you're on your toes it does not matter much how hard the surface is. If you're flatfooted and make hard contact with the ground perhaps a gym floor is better.

[Dan]

Irrelevant IMO. If you're on your toes it does not matter much how hard the surface is. If you're flatfooted and make hard contact with the ground perhaps a gym floor is better.

i agree with this however i have heard it can be bad and cause shin splints?

[RDJ]

i agree with this however i have heard it can be bad and cause shin splints?

Yes it can, but it depends how advanced you are at jumping rope. If you're reasonably new to it or just not very good at it, I would not recommend it. I personally don't care much, because my contact with the floor is very controlled.

[twoohands]

if you are getting shin pain that is probably signs of shin splints from skipping on concrete. As rdj said it depends how advanced at skipping you are, if your just a begginer skipper i wouldnt skip on concrete. I always use the boxing ring at our gym to skip in, it has a nice spring to it..If your getting shin pain rest, you dont want a bad case of shin splints, they can be painful and put you out of training for a whike if bad enough.

[Gavin]

Same thing happened to me, if you've no space to skip indoors on wooden floorboards or carpet, put a rug or two over the spot where you're skipping. Bad idea to skip on conrete alone, because there's no give it won't absorb the force of you're jumping, meaning its absorbed by your joints instead.

[Dan]

Same thing happened to me, if you've no space to skip indoors on wooden floorboards or carpet, put a rug or two over the spot where you're skipping. Bad idea to skip on conrete alone, because there's no give it won't absorb the force of you're jumping, meaning its absorbed by your joints instead.

it doesnt make the same noise on carpet though :(
i think ill stick to concrete

[Goose]

ive been skipping on a running track thats made out of something that springs back a little, like a mix of rubber with cement or something like that...its been a little bit better than concrete where I get crazy pains in my legs.

try to avoid concrete, buddy lee says so

[jordaw]

try skipping rope in a ring or on a hardwood floor if you can. shin splints are a bitch and concrete can do to you.

[DOM5153]

i skip on carpet, feels a lot better when you land

[JagOfTroy]

I have a piece of carpet in the garage that I use to skip on, fairly thin and still does the trick for me.

[j ancliff]

i had simular problem with my shins i got afew old car tyres with a board over them and started skipping on that!

[Muhammad Ali]

Irrelevant IMO. If you're on your toes it does not matter much how hard the surface is. If you're flatfooted and make hard contact with the ground perhaps a gym floor is better.
i have flat feet and i always skip on concrete no problem...

[bballchump11]

I used to skip on concrete in my basement and got a little shin splints, but then I went to my grandma's house for Thanksgiving 2 years ago and jumproped in her driveway and got the worst shin splints ever.

I found a pretty good way to rehab them though, but now when I jump rope in my basement, I put a rug down and a yoga mat under the rug

[Arranmcl]

07-10-2009, 11:14 AM


:patsch:patsch

[Muhammad Ali]

I used to skip on concrete in my basement and got a little shin splints, but then I went to my grandma's house for Thanksgiving 2 years ago and jumproped in her driveway and got the worst shin splints ever.

I found a pretty good way to rehab them though, but now when I jump rope in my basement, I put a rug down and a yoga mat under the rug
how do you get rid of your shin splints?

[bballchump11]

how do you get rid of your shin splints?
it's gonna sound dumb :yep

I get some weights and put them in two plastic bags and hang them from my foot. Then I'll sit and let my feet hang from a bunk bed or maybe a table or something high enough for your feet not to touch the ground and I'll lift the weight up like I'm curling the weight.

I'll do it from 3 angles. With my foot turned all the way right, left and pointing straight out

[viru§™]

:patsch:patsch

It's only about the thrid or fourth thread he's bought back up that's nearly 3 years old.

[Arranmcl]

It's only about the thrid or fourth thread he's bought back up that's nearly 3 years old.

In the past few months theres been a ridiculous anount of pointless threads bumped to the front page by all the newest posters

[Muhammad Ali]

it's gonna sound dumb :yep

I get some weights and put them in two plastic bags and hang them from my foot. Then I'll sit and let my feet hang from a bunk bed or maybe a table or something high enough for your feet not to touch the ground and I'll lift the weight up like I'm curling the weight.

I'll do it from 3 angles. With my foot turned all the way right, left and pointing straight out
thanks, i will try this next time i have them.

[bballchump11]

thanks, i will try this next time i have them.

no problem man :good

A lot of my injuries from overuse and over training have been healed just by strengthening the muscles around them.

My rotator cuff got rehabed
My lower back
My shin splints
My elbow tendinitis (I'm still working on it though)

The only thing that didn't get healed by working out the muscles around it was my jumper's knee.

[Muhammad Ali]

no problem man :good

A lot of my injuries from overuse and over training have been healed just by strengthening the muscles around them.

My rotator cuff got rehabed
My lower back
My shin splints
My elbow tendinitis (I'm still working on it though)

The only thing that didn't get healed by working out the muscles around it was my jumper's knee.
haha, keep your muscles strong and you will have nothing wrong:deal

[TomUK]

no problem man :good

A lot of my injuries from overuse and over training have been healed just by strengthening the muscles around them.

My rotator cuff got rehabed
My lower back
My shin splints
My elbow tendinitis (I'm still working on it though)

The only thing that didn't get healed by working out the muscles around it was my jumper's knee.

How are you getting over your tendinitis? I have it in my lead arm elbow. Been doing 3x50 2kg curls most days but it doesn't seem to be getting better. I injured it before my first fight and carried on training and fighting for 4 fights over 5 months so its damaged pretty bad.

[CHAL_DIESEL]

as long as you are landing soft i see no issue

[bballchump11]

How are you getting over your tendinitis? I have it in my lead arm elbow. Been doing 3x50 2kg curls most days but it doesn't seem to be getting better. I injured it before my first fight and carried on training and fighting for 4 fights over 5 months so its damaged pretty bad.

I'm still working on mine and I'm not sure how fool proof it is, but I noticed it started to feel noticeably better when i started strengthening my forearms. I iced them also of course and made sure to stretch them before I trained.

I would assume that maybe doing tricep extensions and bicep ork would make it better, but it just hurts more when I do stuff with my tricep, so I don't know if that works.

The forearm seems to be working though

[lefty]

How are you getting over your tendinitis? I have it in my lead arm elbow. Been doing 3x50 2kg curls most days but it doesn't seem to be getting better. I injured it before my first fight and carried on training and fighting for 4 fights over 5 months so its damaged pretty bad.

Stop your boxing until it's rehab'd.
Wrist curls both ways with light weights for 10-20 reps x 5.
Squeeze a tennis ball repeatably etc.
Look up forearm exercises, you need to progressively overload, you can't just do one exercise over and over again and expect to get better.
You need to get to the point where you are stronger than before the injury.
Lots of people just live with tendinitis because they don't have any idea about rehabilitation, get it fixed now because it will just hold you back.
You have either medial epicondylitis (on the inside, golfers elbow) or lateral epicondylitis (on the outside, tennis elbow), go see a physio and get it sorted.

[dangerousity]

no problem man :good

A lot of my injuries from overuse and over training have been healed just by strengthening the muscles around them.

My rotator cuff got rehabed
My lower back
My shin splints
My elbow tendinitis (I'm still working on it though)

The only thing that didn't get healed by working out the muscles around it was my jumper's knee.

lol...I have all the same injuries except the rotator cuff. All caused from boxing training.

Got lower back injury from doing kettlebell exercises but was doing them with bad form when I got tired. Got shin splints from skipping on my driveway. Got elbow tendonitis from missing a massive left hook and being off balance.

[bald_head_slick]

Irrelevant IMO. If you're on your toes it does not matter much how hard the surface is. If you're flatfooted and make hard contact with the ground perhaps a gym floor is better.

This. I skip in medium fitting wrestling shoes on a very hard rubber surface. No prob. Guys need to make sure they are skipping in a shoe that either is cushioned or allows the ball of their foot to properly spread to absorb impact.

Push yourself, but also know when to quit. Many people keep skipping long past when their form goes to complete crap. Crap landings = painful feet, ankles, shins, etc...