I just seen a commercial for the cardio jump.   I’m almost speechless.   It’s a fake jump rope!    You hold these things in your hands and do the same motion you would if you were using a jump rope and these balls on the end swing around and it somehow measures your jump and how many and all that stuff.  

You can imagine my first thought, right?   Why not just use a jump rope?   Then the price pops up, only 2 easy payments of $29.95.  Sixy dollars for a fake jump rope.   But of course then they say “Call right now and we’ll knock a full payment off”.   Now it’s $30.00 for a fake jump rope.  

Why not just run over to the dollar store or wal-mart and buy a jump rope for a few dollars?  One woman said she just loved it, it was so compact she could take it anywhere with her anywhere.   Oh okay, well that makes some sense, I mean a jump rope is really bulky and hard to take with you.

I’m just wondering how long it’s going to take for mom or dad to be going to town with this fake jump rope with the balls swinging around one each end for little susie to walk up and get clobbered in the face with a ball.   

Not to mention for this thing to actually be accurate, your going to have to get the timing right between swinging the hand things and jumping.   One guy had those hand things flat flying around there fast enough for lift off, but he wasn’t jumping in time with it.   How accurate is that going to be?

Save your money, go buy a cheap jump rope and use the rest of the money for something useful.