Battling Ropes: Can Rope Replace Gym?

Battling ropes training puts both strength and speed to the ultimate test. This high-intensity workout helps you reach your maximum heart rate quickly and revs your metabolism. The routine effectively engages the entire upper-body and core muscles. It not only increases arm and hand strength but also improves speed and balance. The nature of battling ropes training is fast and intense, raising your heart rate to the max very quickly. In as little as 15 minutes, you’ll be burning hundreds of calories.

The Battling Ropes system is an easy to implement, highly effective form of training and conditioning for athletes and general fitness enthusiasts alike. Battling Ropes drills will improve grip strength, improve your ability to create power and sustain the power output for longer periods of time, improve your aerobic and anaerobic capacity, teach the muscles of the entire body to work together to maximise performance, and add a fun new twists to your workout.

There have been hundreds of exercises created as well as many more variations. Drills may be performed independently or with a partner. Traditional strength exercises like pressing and squatting drills may be performed as well as exercises unique to the ropes themselves. The wave system drills are a good example. The athlete doubles a length of 20m rope around a pole or immovable object creating two 10m lengths. Holding an end in each hand the athlete swings the rope up and down creating large waves in the rope. This sounds like nothing but I guarantee 99% of you reading this would have quite a bit of trouble lasting a mere 30 seconds! It's that tough!

Granted I don't think Battling Ropes will ever replace barbells and dumbbells, but in my opinion they deserve a spot right next to them and make an excellent addition to any strength training and conditioning program. Just ask any of my athletes who are lucky (or unlucky, depending on if you ask them or me) enough to have this method as part of their training arsenal.

So, the question is whether you’re ready to lose weight, get stronger and get in the best shape of your life? Yes. Get ready for Battling Ropes. Prepare for mind blowing gains of strength, stamina, and power. Battling Ropes is a no impact, kick butt, fast and furious, high velocity, pure adrenal surge functional training workout! You have never experienced a cardio workout at this level.


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