Do you have any idea how much a trampoline has to offer?
Rebounding. It's probably the most effective form of exercise known to man. Rebounding is an aerobic exercise that strengthens every part of the body. It's safe and gentle enough for everyone to benefit; age is nothing but a number baby.
Weight loss
For weight loss, rebounding exercise is very effective due to the effect it has on the whole body. Rebounding reduces body fat, increases the muscle to fat ratio and increases the efficiency with which the body burns carbohydrate. The upward force of the bounce improves body tone and exercises a whole range of muscles in the body, not just the legs and heart.
According to a study from NASA a 150-pound individual spending one-hour on a rebounder will burn more calories than the same person jogging for an hour. Another study by NASA in combination with the University of Kentucky concluded that "the magnitude of the biomechanical stimuli is greater with jumping on a trampoline than with running."
Circulation
Aerobic exercise is good for improving blood circulation by pumping more blood through the body and to the heart where it is enriched with oxygen. Rebounding is particularly effective as jumping results in contractions in the muscles such as the calf muscles. These contractions act like pumps circulating more blood back into the heart to be replenished with oxygen. This helps improve circulation and reduce clogging of the arteries.
Healthy Heart
Like many forms of aerobic exercise the muscle that benefits the most is the heart. The heart muscles are strengthened and cause various cardiovascular changes so that with continual exercise, the heart can pump more blood with fewer beats. This results in a lower heart rate when resting and means the heart has less work to do when carrying out normal activities. By reducing the day-to-day workload of your heart you can reduce the chances of developing heart disease.
Stress
Rebounding can decrease stress hormones like cortisol, and increase endorphins which are your body's feel-good chemicals. Also just the physical activity of bouncing can take your mind off your problems. Not only that but the physical improvements that come about through exercise like weight loss and increased health can increase your feel good factor which itself can reduce stress and depression over the long term.
Detoxification
Rebounding facilitates the body's natural detoxification system by stimulating the lymphatic system.
The lymphatic system is like the garbage can of the body removing harmful toxins, dead cells, cancer cells and foreign substances.
The system collaborates with white blood cells in lymph nodes to protect the body from being infected by cancer cells, fungi, viruses or bacteria.
The lymphatic system consists of tubular vessels that include the lymph capillaries, the lymph vessels, and the right and left thoracic ducts. It transports nutrients and drains toxic products from tissues.
Rebounding causes these valves to open and close simultaneously increasing lymph flow by as much as 15 times, boosting immunity, toxin removal and giving every cell in the body a thorough detox. This helps to maintain health and slow down aging.
More Good Stuff
There is no age limit with this exercise. Rebounding is suitable for everyone and it's one of the reasons why they are such a good investment. The whole family is able to benefit from toddlers to grandparents.
Rebounding is ideal for those of an older age as it provides a safe, gentle, no-impact exercise. Unlike other exercises it does not damage the knees or back.
Rebounding is an exercise that can be adjusted to your fitness level and can be done in the comfort of your home.
By strengthening the joints and ligaments this exercise can reduce pain in some arthritic joints.
Rebounding can strengthen bone density as well as muscles. Increased bone density help to prevent broken or fractured bones and osteoporosis.
Quick Notes:
1. Rebounding provides an increased G-force (gravitational load), which benefits the body by strengthening the musculoskeletal systems.
2. Rebounding protects the joints from the chronic fatigue and impact delivered by exercising on hard surfaces.
3. Rebounding helps manage body composition and improves muscle-to-fat ratio. Rebound Exercise benefits you by giving you more control over these.
4. Rebounding benefits lymphatic circulation by stimulating the millions of one-way valves in the lymphatic system. This benefits the body’s immune capacity for fighting current disease, destroying cancer cells, eliminating antigens and preventing future illness.
5. Rebounding circulates more oxygen to the tissues.
6. Rebounding establishes a better equilibrium between the oxygen required by the tissues and the oxygen made available.
7. Rebounding increases capacity for respiration.
8. Rebounding tends to reduce the height to which the arterial pressures rise during exertion.
9. Rebounding lessens the time during which blood pressure remains abnormal after severe activity.
10. Rebounding assists in the rehabilitation of existing heart problems. Rebound Exercise also benefits recovery from heart procedures, providing gentle, low impact circulation. (Case: Cardiac Rehabilitation Using A ReboundAIR)
11. Rebounding increases the functional activity of the red bone marrow in the production of red blood cells.
12. Rebounding gradually improves resting metabolic rate so that more calories are burned for hours after exercise. Related, Rebound Exercise benefits the post-exercise “Glycogen Replenishment” process.
13. Rebounding causes core muscles and large muscle groups to contract, resulting in the rhythmic compression of the veins and arteries, which more effectively moves fluids, both blood and lymphatic, through the body and back to the heart, lowering peripheral blood pressure and lightening the heart’s load.
14. Rebounding decreases the volume of blood pooling in the veins of the cardiovascular system preventing chronic edema.
15. Rebounding encourages collateral circulation by increasing the capillary count in the muscles and decreasing the distance between the capillaries and the target cells.
You can find inexpensive Rebounders like this one, costing a mere $40.99 which includes resistance bands to a mid-range price like this one that’s $64, and more expensive ones like this JumpSport, the Rolls Royce of rebounders as well as the Needak which is top rated by many rebounding enthusiasts.
I guess it would be pretty easy to bounce away on a rebounder while watching TV or listening to music.
Will you try rebounding? Do you currently do it? Do tell!
XOXO
Marysinn
