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WHAT IS THE BEST BATTLE ROPE AND WHY?
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What is the Best Battle Rope and Why?
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Prepared by
By Aaron Guyett, Living.Fit Battle Ropes Master
Coach Education Director, Founder of Battle
Ropes Education
Table of Contents
Introduction
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Why Battle Ropes?
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Introduction
Aaron Guyett is the Battle Ropes Fitness
Programs Manager for Living.Fit with a decade of
battle rope coaching, teaching, and programming.
Aaron systematically breaks down force, so each
participant knows exactly how to program
movements, metabolic pathways, and mindset to get
the most out of your own training and the
training of your clients, athletes, and classes.
Why Battle Ropes?
Battle rope is the most effective workout for
your upper body, which they are. However, their
benehts don't end there. It workouts work the
muscles in your ABS, back, and gluts, and you can
incorporate movements, such as jumps, lunges,
and squats, that work your legs, too. Most
battle ropes are made out of poly dacron hbers,
which are very strong, durable, and moderate
weight for their size and tensile strength. Here
are some other fibers used to make ropes
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Fiber Type
Strength
Weakness
Strong, Moderate Most
Durable, Weight, Common,
Not good if exposed to outside surfaces such as
sand, bark, dirt, asphalt, and rough cement
(like sidewalks and driveways)
Poly Dacron
Easily twisted and braided
Expensive, Heavy, Not good if exposed to outside
surfaces such as sand, bark, dirt, asphalt, and
rough cement (like sidewalks and driveways)
Nylon
Strong, Durable
Not as strong, not as durable (sheds), Not good
if exposed to outside surfaces such as sand,
bark, dirt, asphalt, and rough cement (like
sidewalks and driveways)
Manila/Hemp
Inexpensive
Great for outdoor use, except on rough cement
Sheds a waxy/plastic hber with indoor use, Not
good if exposed to surfaces such as asphalt, and
rough cement (like sidewalks and driveways)
Polyethylene
Canvas Covering
Great to protect
Adds a bit more weight and material
above rope hbers if you are using them on
outside surfaces
Two types of rope making Triple Strand Twist and
Braided
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The triple stranded twist is the most common
style of rope making, as it is cheaper and faster
than braiding a rope. The downfall is that if
your rope begins to untwist it is nearly
impossible to twist it back to its original shape
and length. This
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• The braided rope is another method of making a
  rope, and it creates equal forces directing down
  the length of the rope when creating waves,
  circles, static engagement, and rope pulling
  exercises. It also is more durable. The only
  issue, is when performing circular waves, you
  will feel the rope wanting to twist inside of
  your hands. This is part of the tension that is
  being held by the rope. It will not twist the
  rope, so there for your grip has to fight to keep
  the circles going.
• Living.Fit by Kettlebell Kings have witnessed the
  shortfalls in the battle rope production, so we
  ordered over 30 ropes from 5 different
  manufacturers to hnd the very best battle rope.
  We made our choice after hours of testing and
  many uses of each rope.
• For indoor use, we selected the poly-dacron
  braided rope.
• For outdoor use, we selected the poly-dacron
  triple strand twist with a canvas covering.
• Each rope is manufactured with over 20 key
  specihcations to keep the quality high, as well
  as three different thicknesses for your
  continued progressive overload training.
• ½ inch thick starter battle ropes (this size has
  humbled the strongest men and women in gyms
  around the world)
• inch thick battle ropes for 50 extra mass and
  more than double the effort needed to send the
  waves all the way to the anchor.
• inch thick ropes for double the mass, and an
  insane amount of effort needed to send the waves
  all the way to the anchor.
• All ropes are 50 feet in length, which is the
  best length for improved frequency, physics, and
  dynamic movement capacity (if you need a shorter
  rope because of space, you can always tie off
  your rope at shorter length, but you cannot make
  a short rope longer).
• If you are interested in purchasing the best
  battle ropes on the market, go to
  https//info.kettlebellkings.com/battle-
  ropes-equipment-sign-up

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