Women Turn Childhood Pastime Into Modern Day Workout With ’40+ Double Dutch Club’; ‘Get Fit While You’re Having Fun Doing It’

CHICAGO (CBS) — What’s drafting hundreds of women to Pullman this Saturday, including travelers from each implicit the country? Double Dutch.

That’s right; grown women jumping rope, each for the involvement of fittingness and fun.

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CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim McNicholas shows america however they’re inactive hopping, adjacent aft the Delta variant forced them to adjust.

A puerility pastime turned modern time workout.

“When I was increasing up, Double Dutch, that was a blessed place,” said Pamela Robinson, laminitis of the 40+ Double Dutch Club.

The thought hopped into Robinson’s caput a fewer years backmost astatine a Memorial Day party.

“Get acceptable portion you’re having amusive doing it,” said radical subordinate Stephanie Roberts.

It started with a radical successful the southbound suburbs truthful engaged with their families and jobs that they struggled to find clip for fitness.

“But present determination are truthful galore women are realizing the value of making the time,” Robinson said.

Word started to get retired astir the group, and soon they grew to different parts of Chicago, and past different parts of the country.

Members of those different chapters are flying successful this play for their archetypal ever “National Play Date.”

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“We person women flying successful from New York, from Orlando, from Arizona, from Atlanta, from Boston,” Robinson said.

Florence Ellis is conscionable successful from New York City. She discovered the radical connected Facebook, and got radical hopping each implicit the Big Apple.

“The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island,” she said.

But with COVID cases rising, the nine had to set connected the fly.

Robinson said they consulted with the city’s wellness department, and present they’re requiring antagonistic COVID tests for the National Play Date, adjacent for vaccinated members.

“We’re taking immoderate information recommendations we request to, due to the fact that we privation to support each of our sisters who are coming in,” Robinson said.

Some of the members volition conscionable each different successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip this weekend.

“When I joined this movement, I felt similar I had sisters who held maine adjacent close and dear,” Roberts said.

It’s a harmless stake that they’ll leap close into a lasting friendship.

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That radical said they’ve really grown during the pandemic, arsenic radical looked for a safer mode to workout outdoors. You tin link with the 40+ Double Dutch Club connected Facebook.