“Rebounding is the closest thing to the Fountain of Youth that science has found.”
- James White, Ph.D.
Even if you perform every single exercise in your average gym, you
still will not gain all the benefits you would from this one exercise.
“Rebound exercise”, concluded NASA, “is the greatest form of exercise
known to man,” and you’re about to find out all the reasons why:
1. Rebounding is Safer & More Effective Than Jogging
“Even if they don’t suffer other
injuries, runners end up with bad knees, damaged hips, and weak backs –
all injuries that arise from the punishing beating the body takes when
you run.”
- Fredrick Hahn, The Slow-Burn Fitness Revolution
1. Eliminates Bodily Trauma
In a report written by Craig McQueen, M.D. and A.W. Daniels, Ph.D., they
compared the impact loads of rebounding on a small rebounder vs.
running on a hardwood basketball floor. Their conclusion was that
rebounding eliminates as much as 7/8ths or 87.5% of the trauma to the
feet, knees and legs.
Since the time of this report, the quality of rebounder springs has
improved so much that high-quality rebounders of today may alleviate
more than 90% of the trauma.
2. More Efficient than Jogging
In
NASA’s 1981 study published in the
Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers concluded that rebounding was as much as 68% more efficient than treadmill jogging.
“…for similar levels of heart rate and
oxygen consumption, the magnitude of the biomechanical stimuli is
greater with jumping on a trampoline than with running…”
- NASA
2. A Full Body Exercise Unlike Any Other
One of the biggest benefits of rebound exercise is that it exercises
every single cell in your body – something no equipment or free-weights in a gym can provide.
Rebounding exercises not only your muscle fibres, but every cell in
your body including bone, nerve, brain, connective tissue cells, and
even the vital organs and hormone-producing organs of the endocrine
system.
Because the forces of acceleration and deceleration are aligned with
gravity, all cells in your body are forced to strengthen and adapt to
the G-force that it experienced when you’re jumping on a trampoline.
3. It’s Playful and Fun
“If you’re having a bad day try this: Jump up and down, wiggle around, you’re going to feel better.”
- Dr. Stuart Brown
The playful state that is innate in all
humans and animals is incredibly important for the health of the
organism. A healthy brain means a healthy animal, and as Dr. Stuart
Brown says in a TED Talk, “Nothing lights up the brain like play.
3-Dimensional play fires up the cerebellum, puts a lot of impulses into
the frontal lobe, helps contextual memory be developed, and on and on.”
Jumping is something that kids do to play and have fun. When you
jump on a rebounder you’re reconnecting with your inner child that so
many of us have suppressed. There’s a reason for the saying “Jump for
Joy!”
4. Boosts your Immune System
Rebound exercise boosts your immune system in two ways:
1. Increases immune cell activity
In a
Study
titled “Human lymphocyte activation is depressed at low-g and enhanced
at high-g,” astronauts were tested after space flight (Low G) and their
lymphocytes (immune cells) were found to be 50% less active than the
control group at 1G.
Then, after spinning in a centrifuge for 3 days at 8 G’s of constant force, their lymphocytes were found to be
at least twice as active!
2. Increases Lymph Flow
Immune cells are produced inside the body and are transported to where
they are needed via the Lymph System. This second circulatory system of
the body transports not only immune cells, but nutrients into the cells
after digestion, and cellular debris out of the body.
Rebounding increases lymph flow in the body 10-50x!
“Rebound exercise creates that high G
environment necessary to increase the strength and activity of the
individual lymphocytes. This increases the efficiency of the entire
immune system both collectively and individually cell by cell.”
- Albert E. Carter
5. Increases Energy and Endurance
No exercise can increase your endurance and energy levels as efficiently as rebound exercise.
The energy “factories” that power each of
our cells are called Mitochondria. Human endurance is directly related
to the number of these powder kegs inside the cell. Whenever their is
need for more energy inside the cells, the mitochondria replicate
themselves to accommodate that need.
“The more mitochondria you have in the muscles you are using,
the greater the endurance of those muscles.”
- Albert E. Carter
The reason why rebounding is the most
efficient at increasing energy and endurance is because ALL of your
cells are being challenged about 100x per minute. Therefore the
mitochondria are replicated in every one of your cells simultaneously.
This excess energy that you’ve created from jumping on a rebounder will
now be available to you all day long in all your activities.
6. Increases Bone Density
“Increasing G-force, by
rebounding, sends a message to the bone cells telling them the entire
skeletal system needs to be mineralized, dense, and strong.”
- Albert E. Carter
Our bones are kept strong in proportion to
the physical stress we put on them. Bone is deposited in proportion to
the load that the bone must carry. Jumping on a rebounder will increase
that compression load up to 3.24x that of gravity, forcing all the
bones in your body to become stronger and more dense.
7. Detoxifies the Body
“Four minutes of rebounding will cause
the lymph system to circulate at least once. You will feel a tingling
sensation all over your body as your cells celebrate their excitingly
clean environment.”
- Albert E. Carter
As we discussed earlier, the Lymphatic
System is a secondary circulatory system that moves nutrients into the
cells and metabolic wastes out from the cells for elimination from the
body. Just like human beings eat food and then excrete the wastes,
cells also have metabolic wastes that they get rid of. This waste is
pushed out from inside of the cells into the lymph fluid. When you jump
on a rebounder it moves the toxins out of the body via the lymph fluid
at a rate 10-50x greater than normal!
8. Improves Balance
Our balance is governed by the health of an inner-ear organ called
the vestibule. The vestibule detects sensations of equilibrium in
relation to the earth’s gravitational pull. Jumping on a rebounder is
the most efficient way to stimulate the vestibular system because it is
challenged to readjust, about 100x a minute, the head in relation to its
gravitational environment. With rebounding, stumbling and being clumsy
will be gone from your life forever.
9. Enhances Vision
Yes, you heard it correctly! Rebounding exercises every cell in your
body, which includes the ocular muscles that your eyes use to focus.
Not only can rebounding improve the clarity and sharpness of your
eyesite, but also give you better general performance both physically
and mentally without glasses. More than any other known device,
rebounding contributes to the organization of visual perception and the
orchestrated interplay between sight and all the other human senses.
9. Strengthens the Entire Body
A Study at The Institute of Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas
compared subjects doing weight training with subjects doing rebounding +
weight training. In just 12 weeks, the study showed that people who
rebounded for thirty seconds in between each weight training station (in
a weight training circuit) increased in strength by as much as 25% over
those who did not rebound between stations!
10. Costs Far Less than a Gym Membership
Getting a membership at a gym can cost well over $1000 each year, and
even with that high price, there are many cells in your body not
getting exercised. For far less than the price of a one-year membership
at a gym you can get a rebounder which will not only give
all
your cells a great workout, but a quality rebounder will last a
lifetime. That’s a $1000 savings every year, which you can take
straight to the bank!
