Get Skipping

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to dig out that skipping rope, as Michael learns that the popular childhood pastime could have big benefits for health and wellbeing, especially as we get older. Professor Urs Granacher from the University of Freiburg, shares how skipping is a form of jumping exercise, which could help increase not just our speed, but could also help us age healthily. These exercises help increase muscle power and can also strengthen our bones. Our volunteer Shona, a new mum based in Shetland, uses skipping as an excuse to get outside.

Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Catherine Wyler Researcher: Sophie Richardson Researcher: Will Hornbrook Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:02.0	Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.
0:06.0	But you sit down and be bright.
0:08.0	Celebrating women's voices.
0:10.0	You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.
0:14.8	This is juicy. No limits, no limits.
0:17.2	Celebrating women.
0:18.8	Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out
0:24.4	where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.
0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Hey, Nine. There.
0:41.0	We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with often
0:47.1	conflicting advice. So if you're going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being what should it be
0:55.6	maybe some green tea to boost your brain power or doing a plank to lure your blood
1:01.1	pressure how about some small acts of kindness to benefit your immune
1:05.9	system? I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore one thing you can start doing today
1:16.0	to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect.
1:22.0	Right, I'm in the garden and there's just enough space here for me to try to do something that could give my brain a boost,
1:29.0	strengthen my bones and increase my muscle power. I'm skipping. Along with skipping you could also
1:38.1	try jumping or hopping. These are all pliometric exercises. They build up your muscle power. Now I do
1:47.5	plenty of squats, press-ups and it even occasionally lift weights, but I've
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