What is rebounding Exercise ?
Contents
- What is rebounding?
- Health benefits of rebounding
- Rebounding to re-balance and re-energise
As the days are getting longer and winter looks like it’s eventually coming to an end, you might be thinking of getting fit or perhaps losing a few pounds (or kilos). Maybe you’re not sure about joining a gym and prefer to start an exercise routine at home but don’t know what to do or where to start. Rebounding might be something you’d like to try. The great thing about rebounding is that it’s a very effective exercise. There’s no need to leave the house – just pop on your favourite music and start bouncing. You’ll soon feel like a kid again! Read on for the health benefits of rebounding.
What is rebounding?
Rebounding is an aerobic exercise performed on a mini trampoline – you basically bounce around for a while! It’s gentle on the joints and allows you to perform a cardio workout without putting too much pressure on your body. It’s a great and fun way to work out and get into shape. The beauty of rebounding is anyone can do it – small children, older adults, there’s no age limit.
Health benefits of rebounding
Rebounding is a great exercise for the body and the mind, it can improve mental performance and hand-eye coordination. You work over 600 muscles, including big muscles groups like the core, lower body, legs and hips, which are crucial for balance. It affects every cell in our body, increasing cell energy and oxygen levels throughout the whole body.
Bouncing up and down on a mini trampoline can have some transformational results. Not only is it an amazing workout, it’s also a great way to flush out toxins that are stored within the body. Rebounding is one of the best forms of exercise that has an effect on the lymphatic system (read more here: rebounding to cleanse the lymphatic system). One of the other health benefits of rebounding is that it places positive stress on the cell structure, using three natural forces: acceleration, deceleration and gravity. This form of motion acts as a lymphatic pump, cleansing the lymphatic system.
Rebounding can also help to jumpstart your metabolism. It improves cardiovascular health by improving blood flow, conditioning and strengthening the heart and, in some cases, it can reduce blood pressure. It also helps to tone and strengthen many muscles throughout the body with low impact on joints and ligaments. It doesn’t stress the body the same way you would doing when running for example.
Rebounding is fun and fun exercises release our inner child, which in turn can boost confidence levels and help us to reduce stress and anxiety by encouraging our brain to release more endorphins. Endorphins give you that feel good ‘natural high’, which can help to reduce stress hormones. Exercising regularly can contribute to improving sleep patterns, change the way we see ourselves and help with our overall mental health, which in this day and age is so important. 토토
Many different studies have shown that the increase of gravitational force on the bones that you experience while rebounding can help strengthen and increase bone mass. This also can increase your endurance for other physical activities.
If weight loss is your goal, an added bonus is that rebounding is around three times more effective at burning calories than running, five times more effective than swimming and eleven times more effective than walking! NASA performed a study (published in 1980, in the Journal of Applied Physiology) that showed rebounding is 68% more effective than jogging in burning calories. This study compared the results for an individual weighing 150 pounds spending one hour on the rebounder versus jogging, and found that they used more calories when rebounding than the same person jogging. NASA now use rebounding exercises to recondition astronauts to prevent muscle and bone degeneration after their space walks.
Rebounding is an amazing complimentary exercise to other types of fitness as it helps to remove lactic acid from your muscles. If you are suffering from lactic acid burn or any form of muscle pain, try rebounding.
You might also notice that you feel less tired – rebounding can help strengthen the glandular system, which helps to fight fatigue and increases stamina.
Rebounding to re-balance and re-energise
Rebounding is an amazing way to feel re-energised and re-balanced, it’s a fun way to lose weight and strengthen your body. When rebounding, whether it’s in your home or out at a class, remember the safety tips we went over earlier and just make sure you have fun! I hope you have enjoyed reading about the health benefits of rebounding and the wonderful things this energising exercise can do for you. If you’d like to give it a go for yourself, then you might like to read more about our detox and weight loss retreats at La Crisalida Retreats, as we include rebounding regularly as part of our activity programme. La Crisalida Retreats is open all year round and our programme is flexible so that you can pick arrive and depart on any day you like.
