How Many Calories Do You Burn If You Jump Rope 600 Times?

With multiple speeds and ways to jump rope, there is no guaranteed number of calories you burn after 600 repetitions. According to the Yale Medical Group, if you weigh 150 pounds you can burn 750 calories by jumping rope for 60 minutes -- that’s six seconds per jump. No matter how long it takes you to do 600 reps, you are still strengthening your bones and improving your balance by jumping rope.

  1. Time

    • How long it takes you to get through the 600 reps depends on how quickly you can jump rope. If you can jump rope once per second, 600 times without stopping, you can complete your 600 reps in just 10 minutes. But even if you can skip rope quickly, you may get tangled every once in awhile, adding to your overall time. Jumping rope is an intense heart workout, so you may not be able to do all 600 at once without taking a break. If you are just starting out, 30 minutes is a more reasonable amount of time to jump rope 600 times.

    Calories

    • The amount of calories you can burn jumping rope depends on your intensity level and how long you jump as well as how much you weigh. Assuming jumping rope 600 times takes you around 30 minutes -- one jump every three seconds -- you can burn between 300 and 643 calories, depending on your weight. If you weigh 125 pounds, you can burn 300 calories, and at 155 pounds you can burn 372 calories. If you weigh 185 pounds you can burn as many as 444 calories.

    Maximum Calories

    • The more you weigh, the more calories you burn with the same amount of exercise. Jumping rope is an excellent workout, no matter what your weight, but if you weigh over 200 pounds you can blast some serious calories with only 600 skips of your rope. According to MayoClinic.com, if you weigh 200 pounds you burn 537 calories in just 30 minutes of jumping rope). If you weigh in around 240 pounds, you can burn nearly 650 calories in the same amount of time. It would take a 125-pound individual more than an hour to burn the same amount of calories.

    Variety

    • The Yale Medical Group recommends knowing a variety of steps when jumping rope, as halfway through your set of 600 jumps you may want to switch up your jumping style to fend off boredom. You can jump from two feet to two feet, which is the standard jump, or you can jump from one foot to the other. Once you feel comfortable with the basic jumps, try a boxer’s jump -- keep your jump close to the ground and put one foot down slightly before the other, just touching the second rather than putting all your weight on it.