Technical Tip of the Week – Double Unders
This week I want to show you a clip of Rocky doing double unders. It is an intense scene as Rocky pushes himself into overdrive mode in his training.
When doing double unders, we want to be efficient and not waste any energy. At the 15 second mark, Rocky starts doing double unders and he is jumping up way too high and is pretty much doing tuck jumps. His shoulders are doing a lot of the work and his elbows are failing around in huge circles. In contrast, we want to be jumping up just high enough to allow the rope to pass and letting the flicking of the wrist to generate speed in the rope. Once you develop the speed of the wrists, it allows the rope to spin much faster and thus you won’t need to jump up as high. This will allow us to do more consecutive double unders and not be gassed out after 5 or 6 reps.
-Harvey
This is where we recap the the picture or video that got the most views, likes, or comments of the week. This is Coach giving you a slap in the face for motivation.