How Many Calories are Burned by Jumping rope?
For rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce, which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of jumping rope activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 508 Calories. In one hour rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce will burn 1,017 Calories.
Summary of Jumping rope Information and Charts
To help you find the information you need, we first focus on rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce which is the most common jumping rope activity. This is followed by the activities with the highest burn rate which is rope jumping, fast pace, 120-160 skips/min, and the lowest which is rope jumping, slow pace, < 100 skips/min, 2 foot skip, rhythm bounce, giving the average calories burned per minute and per hour, along with food calorie equivalents and our new proprietary calories burned score© and calories burned rank©The calorie score gives an indication of the relative burn rate of the jumping rope activities measured as a percentage score out of 100 for the different jumping rope activities, where 100% is the maximum calorie burn which we estimate from running at a pace of 4 minutes per mile which is a world class speed for running for 30 mins.
The calorie rank is the rank of the jumping rope activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.
Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator
Although the above is a typical example for jumping rope, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.
Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Jumping rope
At dietandfitnesstoday we have a new proprietary concept of a Calories Burned Score© and Calories Burned Rank©.
Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical jumping rope Activity
As we have previously mentioned Rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce is a moderate and typical level of intensity for jumping rope and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by jumping rope. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 508 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 436 Calories.
Calories Per Minute
The calories burned per minute for Rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce is 17 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 15 Calories per minute.
Calories Per Hour
The calories lost in one hour is 1,017 calories for a typical man, and 872 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
How to Burn 100 Calories
To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 6 minutes of the activity rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce and to burn 100 calories with the same jumping rope activity for a typical female would take 7 minutes.
Score and Rank
Rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce has a Calorie Burned Score© of 49.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 49.70 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 28.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 28.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 42.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce
Equivalent Activities
The following activities burn the same number of calories as Rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce -
- running at a speed of 8 mph or 7:30 pace (minutes/mile)
- skindiving, moderate
Comparison with Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce burns 12.7 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 11.8 times more calories for an average female.
Food Calorie Equivalents
This level of 508 calories burnt by an average man rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce is equivalent to 0.9 Big Macs, 1.8 snickers bar, 4.2 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 1.7 cheeseburgers, 1.8 slices of pizza or 1.3 large blueberry muffins.
For an average female burning 436 calories is equivalent to 0.8 Big Macs, 1.6 snickers bar, 3.6 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 1.5 cheeseburgers, 1.5 slices of pizza or 1.1 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss from Jumping rope
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity jumping rope? Taking this example of rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.07 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.06 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 4 weeks for a man and 4 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 2 weeks for a man and 2 weeks for a woman.
Jumping rope Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn
The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by rope jumping, fast pace, 120-160 skips/min. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 530 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 455 Calories.
This activity of rope jumping, fast pace, 120-160 skips/min has a Calories Burned Score© of 52.00 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 52.00 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 25.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 25.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 29.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than rope jumping, fast pace, 120-160 skips/min
Jumping rope Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn
The jumping rope activity with the lowest calories burnt is rope jumping, slow pace, < 100 skips/min, 2 foot skip, rhythm bounce, which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 379 Calories, and for an average woman burns 325 Calories.
This activity of rope jumping, slow pace, < 100 skips/min, 2 foot skip, rhythm bounce has a Calories Burned Score© of 36.20 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 36.20 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 45.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 45.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 97.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than rope jumping, slow pace, < 100 skips/min, 2 foot skip, rhythm bounce
Average Calories Burned by Jumping rope
Based on the the list of 3 jumping rope activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 473 Calories for 30 minutes of jumping rope. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 405 Calories for 30 minutes of jumping rope.
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| Calories Burned in 30 minutes of jumping rope for Average Male (M) and Female (F) (click to personalise). | |
| rope jumping, fast pace, 120-160 skips/min - calories Male=530 kcal, Female=455 kcal. | |
| rope jumping, moderate pace, 100-120 skips/min, general, 2 foot skip, plain bounce - calories Male=508 kcal, Female=436 kcal. | |
| rope jumping, slow pace, < 100 skips/min, 2 foot skip, rhythm bounce - calories Male=379 kcal, Female=325 kcal. | |
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