Social media jump rope sensation Lauren Flymen is showing fans and followers a new skipping routine set to Madonna’s Like a Prayer. Flymen, 32, shared a video of herself wearing a red one-piece workout dress, jumping rope in her yard with headphones on and a black cap. “Fun one 💃🏼 🪢 using my pvc rope (link in bio) 🤓 learn my ways: @fancy.feats app,” she captioned the post. Flymen has made a career out of jumping rope and showing others how to do it—here’s what her wellness regimen looks like.
Flymen started jumping rope during the pandemic lockdowns. “Jump rope turned my life around in lockdown,” she told Get the Gloss. “Not only am I now the fittest I’ve ever been and in the best shape I’ve ever been, it gave me a reason to get out of bed when I wasn’t working, it gave me something to focus on, and it gave me the satisfaction of something to work towards with unlocking new skills. It kept me healthy, it connected me with people around the world and gave me a sense of togetherness.”
Flymen focused on strength training before she started to jump rope. “My cardiovascular endurance was lacking so it was a slight shock to the system taking up skipping,” she told Get the Gloss. “At first, I couldn’t jump for very long without feeling exhausted. I find it so much easier now and my sessions are often up to an hour with little rest. I’d steered clear of cardio for a while because I didn’t enjoy it and preferred weight lifting. Before skipping I was lifting weights four times a week so I had a level of fitness from that.”
Flymen is thrilled she gets to jump rope for a living. “When I started this, my goals were always just to learn the tricks, and those are still my goals,” she told Muscle and Health. “There are loads of skills I still want to learn. I realized skipping had become more than just a hobby when I went back to work after being furloughed, and it was so difficult to keep on top of everything going on. Shortly after that, I left my job, and now I can call skipping my full-time job, which is amazing.”
Flymen has a background in sports and athletics. “I am a sporty person, and I grew up doing dance and sports such as squash, netball, lacrosse and athletics so I guess I’m quite coordinated although, that said, skipping made me feel very uncoordinated at first,” she told Get the Gloss. “It’s so much harder than it looks. I’m quite a determined person and hate being rubbish at things so I guess I do pick things up quickly due to this.”
Flymen knows how important it is to find exercise you genuinely enjoy. “The best fitness advice I’ve ever received was to do something you enjoy and enjoy being fit and healthy,” she told Muscle and Health. “If you don’t enjoy it, you won’t be able to sustain it and won’t want to do it every day. So, find something you love doing every day. People should start skipping for the same reason I did because it’s so much fun. And once they get started, they won’t be able to stop.”