Jumping jacks exercise provides many benefits to keep your body fit.

1. Burn Calories:

Jumping jacks provide you with a total body (!) aerobic exercise. It is a cardio movement, which requires a high level of energy and burns a lot of calories. Your body gets warmed up with just 10-15 jacks. Do 100 jumping jacks and you’ll burn a lot of calories!

2. Warm-up:

What is your favorite and most consistent move to warm up your body before any cardio or such workout? Jumping jacks, right? Jumping jacks elevate the heart rate and at the same time loosen up the limbs. It is a favorite warm-up exercise with most trainers across the world.

3. Cardiovascular (- I know, big word, but trust me, it's all good) Benefits:

The jacks keep your heart healthy and force your lungs to breathe in more oxygen. This benefits your cardiovascular system and strengthens it. Jacks are known to improve cholesterol level. This exercise is also effectively controls high blood pressure.

4. Get Stronger (oh, yeah!):

Jumping jack is a body-weight exercise. It will not beef up your muscles and increase the size like strength moves, but it will strengthen the muscles. Its main effects can be felt in calves, thighs, back and shoulder muscles. It hits all the major muscle area in your body and at the same time cuts out the fat with its integrated total body cardio movement.

5. Endurance And Conditioning:

Jumping Jacks are used by pro-athletes and military all over the world for endurance and conditioning training. It improves our endurance by strengthening the muscles and conditions our cardiovascular system for better performance and more efficiency.

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And now, I will let the Afghani police force in training demonstrate how to do this exercise:

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Stay fit Steemians!

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