Hey all, last night I randomly found your forum and have read a few topics, it seems there are some knowledgeable people here! 
Let me tell you about me first. I'm 22 from Scotland, male, 178cm, 83kg, maybe 10% body fat (just a guess). I have played badminton regurarly since I was about 8 years old, and in the last year I have spent lots of time in the gym, running and swimming. I just started boxing a few weeks back and really enjoy it. As the title says my query is about skipping which I'm sure most of you do. hehe...
My first couple of times skipping at the boxing gym were centred about learning to skip, but I'm ok at it now. On Friday we did 20mins solid skipping which went ok, but my legs have been really sore since.
On saturday afternoon I felt ok and wanted to do a quick skipping session before an abs workout but after 1 minute I had to stop because of the pain in my legs. For the next 30mins I basically couldn't walk... It was agony!
Then after another 30mins I felt a bit better and ended going out to the pub that night.
I went to bed about 1am and awoke at 3am with lots of pain in my legs, lay in bed for a while then got out and took some Ibuprofen and managed to fall asleep at 4.30am... I got up at 1pm and felt much better. I usually go to the boxing gym on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays but decided to miss it yesterday (Mon) to give my legs some healing time.
Have any of you had this before? I heard that I should give myself 3 days rest between skipping since my legs are not used to it as skipping probably uses different muscles than I normally train.
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for your input!
Let me tell you about me first. I'm 22 from Scotland, male, 178cm, 83kg, maybe 10% body fat (just a guess). I have played badminton regurarly since I was about 8 years old, and in the last year I have spent lots of time in the gym, running and swimming. I just started boxing a few weeks back and really enjoy it. As the title says my query is about skipping which I'm sure most of you do. hehe...
My first couple of times skipping at the boxing gym were centred about learning to skip, but I'm ok at it now. On Friday we did 20mins solid skipping which went ok, but my legs have been really sore since.
On saturday afternoon I felt ok and wanted to do a quick skipping session before an abs workout but after 1 minute I had to stop because of the pain in my legs. For the next 30mins I basically couldn't walk... It was agony!
Then after another 30mins I felt a bit better and ended going out to the pub that night. I went to bed about 1am and awoke at 3am with lots of pain in my legs, lay in bed for a while then got out and took some Ibuprofen and managed to fall asleep at 4.30am... I got up at 1pm and felt much better. I usually go to the boxing gym on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays but decided to miss it yesterday (Mon) to give my legs some healing time.
Have any of you had this before? I heard that I should give myself 3 days rest between skipping since my legs are not used to it as skipping probably uses different muscles than I normally train.
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for your input!
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