Champion SportsWeighted Jump Rope

Rope doesn’t rotate well in handle, making it harder to use

Pretty cost effective solution compared to crossrope brand ones. Only problem is one of the grips is larger than the other and slides off after using it for while.

Plastic handles not smooth in movement. rope very rigid, gets all tangled after a few jumps.

I bought a jump rope for cardio. I've used it 3 times so far.What I like: it really works it your arms and shoulders.What I don't like: my arms become exhausted before I do.I think it'll take some time before I can get a good cardio routine going.***2 month update.I bought a cheap 5$ rope to really work on my cardio.I use a tabata timer. 2-3 minutes work and 1-1.5 minutes rest. After about 10 minutes, my heart rate is up and I'm sweating. My routine would be 30-40 minutes.Just tonight I went back to the weighted rope.20 seconds work and 20 seconds rest. After only 2 rounds or 40 seconds, my heart is racing and I'm almost sweating. The workout is amazing and it was only 15 minutes.***5 month updateI actually weighed the rope. It's 1.6 pounds. Despite the fact that it's still a great exercise tool, I didn't get what I paid for.

It's great before it breaks. I used it moderately, probably about three or four times a week on average, which means about three or four thousand rope swings per week. The weighted plastic just severed near the grip. To their credit, the manufacturer designed the rope so that it can be taken apart and reassembled (otherwise they would have gotten one star). The rope is then shorter, but still usable. Anyway, it's sure to happen again near the other grip. I can already see the plastic giving way.Edit: The review above is for the Ader jumprope with the threaded handles. As described above, the Ader breaks. This happens repeatedly, and each time I fixed it it got shorter. Eventually it got so short that I bought a new jumprope, and this time I tired the Champion. The Champion has a different handle design than the Ader, and so I thought I'd give it a try. Short answer -- stick with the Ader. The Champion is put together with a ball-and-socket (spheroid) joint which, and the ball is too "small" for the socket. In other words, the rope frequently pops out of the socket, and there's really no fix for this except to force the ball back in. The problem is that the more the ball is forced back in, the easier it is for it to become dislodged. So now all I have to do is jump the rope twenty times or so before it flies apart. VERY FRUSTRATING. Waste of money in my opinion. Don't buy.Two stars for the Ader, ZERO for the Champion.