Comment by korijn

3 years ago

>> for certain people with bad joints or other related issues cycling or swimming might be better choices

> Even rope jumping is considered much better than jogging since the force is always distributed across both legs at the same time.

If your joints are bad enough, you have to specifically avoid impact. Rope jumping is slightly less bad than running but still one impact after the other.

Cycling and swimming require cyclical motions that you can perform without having to sustain impacts.

Speaking from close personal experience here (my SO), rope jumping is actually what caused the joint problems. She can't do running or rope jumping anymore. Swimming and cycling are no problem though.

All this just to back up GPs claim that swimming and cycling are great alternatives to running if you have bad joints. As parent said, rope jumping is indeed slightly better than running, but still not a great alternative due to impacting motion.