How To Do The Thing With The Jump Rope Dudes (#54)

“You can’t rely on feeling good to do things. You have to rely on the practice of just doing something consistently all the time.” – Dan Witmer

On this episode I talk with the legendary Jump Rope Dudes, Dan Witmer and Brandon Epstein. These two need no introduction, as they have built a platform delivering jump rope information to hundreds of thousands of people and have brought an incredibly large amount of folks into the jump rope world. Dan and Brandon use jump rope to not only better themselves, but also to impact others and help create lasting positive physical and mental change for so many. We dive into a bunch of different topics about their journey with jump rope, including how both dudes lost a lot of weight with jump rope, the importance of consistency and the Stackin’ Bricks philosophy, a discussion on Mental Fitness Training, some of the dudes most fulfilling moments, and a whole lot more.

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Show Notes

1:16 The JRD Origin Story

6:00 The First Time Picking Up A Rope

10:34 Mental Training In Zen Dude Fitness

13:23 Dan’s Experience with Depression And Anxiety

18:58 What Is Mental Fitness Training?

23:38 The Importance Of Consistency

25:34 Stackin’ Bricks

27:05 Other Sports And Activities

36:53 Making Hip Hop Music Videos

39:09 Has Your Fitness Evolved?

44:26 Best Place To Live

46:57 How To Use Social Media

54:44 What’s Changed Over The Years?

1:01:25 When Was A Time You Felt Fulfilled?

1:09:00 Goals For The Future

1:13:48 Working Through Difficult Decisions

1:19:30 What Have You Learned From Making Videos For Two Years

1:22:16 What Would Your Younger Self Say About You Now?

1:25:20 What Is Jump Rope To You?

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Here’s what you should be doing during the Swing

Doing a Running In Place Cross to a Swing Transiti

Doing a Running In Place Cross to a Swing Transition is a classic pattern that’s great for cardio & is just really cool to do! Here’s how you do it correctly:

👉 The top hand in the Cross is the side that you are going to swing to first. This is critical because it feels like your hands are just opening up next to your body

👉 But when you put your hands in that position, the hand that is farther from your body ends up being the dominant hand, pulling the rope over to the other side of your body

👉 If the dominant hand stays on top for the second Swing, it’ll be super easy to get back to a regular Single Under

👉 And if you mix up these hand placements, it’s going to be a lot harder haha so look at exactly where my hands are, because getting those hand positions done correctly means you’re going to be able to do this whole sequence nice and easily!

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The Inverse Leg Over to a Cross is kind of the wei

The Inverse Leg Over to a Cross is kind of the weirdest leg crossing skill haha here’s how you do it:

👉 The leg you lift should moves across your body. You’ll probably need to need to turn your torso a little bit to actually make that leg get over to the other side

👉 Your hand should go underneath your knee next to the outside of your thigh. When you do this hand placement, it’s very easy to block the path of the rope. So placing the handle right behind your knee so the rope will be wide enough to actually pass over your body!

👉 And once the rope does come around, just let your hands drop down into a Cross. Use your leg to push your hand down next to your side into that crossed position

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Doing consecutive Basic Crosses without doing extr

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