There have been some pretty innovative design solutions for home gyms in the age of COVID-19, ranging from adaptive gym modules that utilize smart technology for instruction to more discreet gym equipment that disguises as home furniture. While most of us are staying at home for these workouts, ensuring we all have the equipment needed can still get messy and some of us have neighbors living below and next to us, so we have to compromise when it comes to how loud we get. Swift Creatives, a Scandinavian design studio located in Aarhus, Denmark, recently debuted Smart Fitness, an integrated smart workout system that equips your home workout with all the gym-related accessories you might need.
The team at Swift Creatives got inspired by Nike and designed Smart Fitness for athletes at every level of any given sport to have a single system supplied with five smart workout accessories: a foam roller that doubles as a speaker, weighted jump rope, headphones, and water bottle. Foam rollers are a Godsend and essential for use following a heavy workout. Designed to help relieve muscle tension, increase your joint range of motion, and promote blood flow – foam rolling is an athlete’s bread and butter. Since foam rollers are supposed to be firm for purpose and by design, Swift Creatives took the opportunity to enclose a speaker inside the heavy-duty foam so that music can play while rolling.
The included jump rope is balanced and customizable for different workout weights and athlete heights. The jump rope’s cables can be switched out to either lighten the lift or load it on. Additionally, a built-in counter and timer keep track of every rope session so you won’t ever lose count. With integrated music connectivity, Smart Fitness can link up each workout accessory, like the breathable smart headphones, to your smartphone or smartwatch so that you can easily play music from your preferred streaming platform. Bringing its own unique edge to the workout, Smart Fitness’s magnetic water bottle also comes equipped with smart control switches that activate a UV-C LED light cleaning cycle so you can keep your focus on the workout.
I was ‘today years old’ when I found out that skipping was invented by the Egyptians back in 1600 A.D. Imagine that! It may as well be one of the earliest forms of equipment-led exercise, dating back more than 400 years! There are theories that the rope made its way to Europe, and finally to America thanks to Dutch settlers, but fundamentally the idea of the skipping or the jump rope hasn’t changed… although it certainly has evolved to make it a better, more effective form of exercise.
The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope takes a fun pastime and turns it into a complete high-intensity full-body workout. By incorporating weights into the handles, the jump rope goes from being more than just a cardio tool, and something that really puts all your muscles in your hands and feet to work. The rope even comes with swappable cables of different thicknesses, letting you tweak the quality of your workout and choose between a fast session or a heavy-duty one.
The idea behind the Earth 2.0 Jump Rope was to go beyond the consensus of just a warm-up cardio-tool, according to Matias Hernandez, CEO of Velites Fitness. Boxers, athletes, olympians, and body-builders have all relied on skipping as a part of their training regimen, but here’s the problem with current jump-ropes. Not only do they occupy a small space in workout sessions, they’re (by design) tiny, inexpensive, frail pieces of equipment. The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope remedies that with perhaps one of the most robust rope-builds ever. With handles made from space-grade metal, and rotating elements near the cords (so they don’t tangle), the Earth 2.0 Jump Rope is just built to be better. Moreover, the fact that it incorporates weights into its design makes it more of a ‘serious’ workout product, if that’s something that makes sense. The handles on the Earth 2.0 weigh 200 grams each, and come with the ability to add more weights to them, bringing the overall weight up to 1 kilogram per handle. This really forces you to exert more effort into jumping, as your arms try to manipulate the heavy handles, and your body tries to keep up with this new pace. There are obviously multiple weights to work through, and you can choose which one suits you. The ropes themselves are swappable too, thanks to an easy fixture that lets you switch out ropes, choosing between a thin cable for speedy jump sessions, to an intermediate cable for something more advanced, and even a thick monster cable that’s at par with what experts use.
The entire jump-rope experience is incomplete without the Earth 2.0 training app, which not only introduces to new exercises and techniques when it comes to your jump-rope, but even helps track your workouts, showing you stats at the end of each session. You can program your hardware into the app (telling it which rope or weight you’re using) and even set your own goals for the app to coach you. If you’re wondering how to begin, the app has training levels from a novice to expert levels, allowing you to go from a skipping amateur to someone who can get a full-body work out (with shredded abs to show for it) in just under 20 minutes each day!
The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope is a completely redesigned and reimaged version of the jump rope that you’ve known and loved. It incorporates weights into the handles and rope comes with swappable cables of different thicknesses, letting you tweak the quality of your workout.
Change It Up & See Your Results Skyrocket
With three different cables to choose from and our unique fast switching system, you can go from crushing double unders to extreme muscle building at the drop of a hat.
Achieve maximum speed and agility to conquer the elusive triple under with the 2.5 mm Speed Cable. It’s your best friend when you want to go fast and furious.
The perfect middle ground – the Standard 4 mm cable is the do-everything champion. Ideal for beginners, the added weight increases feedback and has the perfect speed for getting in the “swing” of jumping. For more advanced athletes looking to increase the difficulty level, the Standard Cable provides additional weight to make high-intensity workouts even more effective.
Want to go beast mode? The 8 mm Monster Cable will bring the fire! A true heavy cable for developing muscle and pushing your body to the limits!
Build Strength and Maximize Muscle Gain
Heavy cable not hard enough? If you want to level up the weight, they added handle weights that allow you to tailor the Earth 2.0 Jump Rope to your goal. Increase the total weight up to 5 x in seconds. Take it from 200 grams up to 1kg.
Handle weights provide 9 different combinations to dial-in the perfect amount of resistance. Start with 50 grams and work up to 350 grams extra weight per handle.
Built to Last
Unlike the average plastic jump rope, The Earth 2.0 uses rocket-grade aluminum and stainless steel to build their handles, weights, connectors and cable interiors. They are so confident in their construction that they offer a 2-year guarantee for all handles and weights.
Extra Durable PVC Cover
Weak cables are a common flaw with jump ropes and often become the first part to wear out or fray. Worn cables reduce performance and put you at risk for injury. The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope cable is engineered for maximum durability with a flexible but wear-resistant PVC cover that has been field-tested to hold up against multiple surfaces.
Months of engineering and testing went into building a high-tech ball bearing system that’s like no other jump rope on the market. The video above showcases the spinning of the rope.
The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope is super easy to adjust. Follow these easy steps shown above and you will be training in no time. All cables are 3.5 m long so they adapt even to NBA players and are easy to cut with regular pliers (even the monster 8 mm cable).
The Earth 2.0 Jump Rope includes an iOS/Android training app. It’s the portable trainer who fits in your pocket! You’re not left on your own trying to figure things out
Coach Mode: When you need that extra motivation, use the proprietary Coach Mode, which is the voice in your ear (or headphones) that will provide that extra boost of encouragement when you need it most.
Complete personalization: Add your fitness goals and what equipment you have on hand, and you’ll receive customized workout recommendations tailored to your preferences and goals. Use the filter option or configure you profile with the equipment you would like to train with.
Regardless of whether you’ve ever picked up a jump rope before or if you’ve been jumping for years, the NEW Velites Step-By-Step Jump Rope Course designed by World Champion Jump Roper Adrienn Banhegyi will guide you to training success!
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Do you like to jump rope as part of your exercise routine? Let me introduce you to Tangram Factory’s Smart Rope, a jump rope with 23 LEDs embedded in the middle of the rope that light up in front of you to display your current jump count while you’re jumping, courtesy of the old persistence of vision effect.
You can pair it with a smartphone if you want to keep track of calories burned and other stats. So what we have here is a smart jump rope. About the only thing it doesn’t do is give you the words to those songs that girls sing when they Double Dutch.
This cool upgrade to the standard jump rope costs $90(USD). Or you can just get a rope for free and start jumping. You can count out loud if you want.
More and more contraptions that charge devices or generate power without needing an electrical outlet are hitting the market. Some, like the PULSE Kinetic Jump Rope, are in their prototype stages, while others like the Voltmaker are ready to be shipped off.
Granted, you’ll be able to get a bit of a workout with both devices. Voltmaker will have you turning its hand crank until your arms are sore, while PULSE will have you jump rope until you’re ready to collapse so you can charge up your phone.
The PULSE kinetic jump rope looks like your typical jump rope on the outside, but the built-in dynamos in the handle make all the difference. Every spin the rope makes generates power that is stored in the embedded rechargeable battery. You can then hook your phone up to the jump rope’s handle in order to charge it.
The PULSE jump rope is currently available in a limited beta test run. Only 100 of these have been made, and each one retails for $129(USD).
