{"id":64,"date":"2008-03-30T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/lmao\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:17:41","slug":"lmao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/lmao\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Gimmicks Vol. I: JumpSnap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping rope is a great cardiovascular exercise, for sure.\u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t do it, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jumpsnap.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">then\u00a0the\u00a0folks\u00a0selling &#8220;JumpSnap&#8221;\u00a0have the perfect solution for you.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not: it sure looks catchy, and the video is awesome.\u00a0 But\u00a0forget the background music and choreography for a moment and\u00a0look a little closer\u00a0at what everyone is doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 They&#8217;re simply jumping up and down while waving a\u00a0pair of talking handles around.\u00a0 Can you get a good workout by jumping up and down?\u00a0 Absolutely&#8230;but do you really need\u00a0to fork out\u00a0$59.95 for the privilege?\u00a0\u00a0Even though I have two left feet,\u00a0I&#8217;m quite certain I could\u00a0manage\u00a0to jump\u00a0around\u00a0without the handles and set of instructional DVDs, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the gimmicks.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t jump rope, faking it with a pair of expensive (and useless) handles isn&#8217;t the solution.\u00a0 The solution is to <strong>practice<\/strong>.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be long before you can keep\u00a0going long enough to get in a solid cardio workout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping rope is a great cardiovascular exercise, for sure.\u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t do it, then\u00a0the\u00a0folks\u00a0selling &#8220;JumpSnap&#8221;\u00a0have the perfect solution for you. Or maybe not: it sure looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,24],"tags":[317,1852,969,970,971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}