HIIT: Ideas for using skipping as part of your physical training programme...

Can you get fit in five minutes?

Get fit with high intensity interval training

There are apparently 62% of men and 72% of women across England, Wales and Scotland who are not yet to meet the government's recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week, you'll be pleased to hear new research suggests you may not have to. Fitness has seen a shift towards short but intense workouts, a training concept known as high-intensity interval training, or HIIT.

And skipping offers the perfect Fundamental Improvement Tool to undertake HIIT. It not only offers a workout for your lungs and legs but strengthens and stabilises your core, so important not only in exercise but in everyday movement.

You can read more here but more importantly, you can get involved here by buying your own rope and receiving our free Mini Daily Challenge with every rope purchased.

Thanks to The Guardian, Sunday 10 June, 2012