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Some exercises can actually do harm while doing good. Researchers have discovered that jogging and other activities that place a lot of impact on the legs can, over time, cause the skin to actually sag. For this reason, such exercisers have a tendency to develop jowls, sagging breasts, and the like over years of practicing their sport. If your goal is to avoid looking old, then jogging may not be the exercise of choice. Additionally, runners often suffer a number of injuries brought about through strains on their feet, ankles, and knees, as well as falls. Walking is more ideal in terms of safety and avoidance of aging skin, but it’s not so ideal from a time standpoint. You have to devote far more time walking to gain the health benefits of exercise ( or add weights to the routine to achieve the strenuous activity needed to burn fat). Additionally, “walking has little effect on building muscle mass and strength,” noted researchers at the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. So, while walking can be a useful addition to a good exercise program, it fails to be an ideal exercise for actually building up your strength or shedding fat unless you have lots of time to spend at this activity. Bicycle riding isn’t without its drawbacks, either. Bicycling is often dangerous in areas with heavy car and truck traffic. It also fails to build muscles in areas of the body other than the legs. For men there are added problems. Recent research has found that bicycling will cause impotency and prostate problems with time for most, it not all, male riders. For women, bicycling fails to reduce bone loss or calcium depletion from the skeletal system, making it less than ideal for preventing osteoporosis in later years. Sports is more start and go than continuous. This places intense strain on the heart while doing nothing to burn off body fat by failing to sustain activity beyond 20 minutes at a stretch. You goal should be a continuous moderate exercise session instead of one that entails sudden spurts of heavy exercise followed by long lulls. Many team sports are bad for this reason: they place your heart under intense and potentially damaging strain for a few moments followed by minutes of inactivity. Competitive sports, races or other forms of competition are also best avoided for these reasons since they encourage you to put excess strain on your body. Free weights, “bow,” spring-loaded weight machines, and true weight machines offer a good way to build muscle and bone mass. But, by their nature they dictate massive and often expensive weights, barbells, and/or machinery that take up a lot of room. They often produce poor aerobic results by failing to keep activity at a constant, sustained level for more than 20 minutes. In the case of free weights, they demand the availability of a spotter if one is to avoid dangerous injuries. By themselves, free weights have a lot of handicaps. (However, as we’ll see, it is possible to add elements of free weight exercise to our proposed program with little expense and no risk of injury.) During that time your muscles will do some intense lifting, building up as if you had been working out with much heavier free weight. It doesn’t feel intense. It lasts only for a fraction of a second, but the work is still being done, even it you’re almost unaware of it. This scientific use of G forces in exercise gives you the benefit of lifting a heavy weight without the dangers. And because you’re also bouncing to maintain this effect, you obtain the aerobic effect equal to that of jogging or other moderate workouts. In short, you’re getting the best parts of all possible exercises. Preventable cancers account for more than 40 percent of all cancers among women. ‘Cellular exercise’ boosts the body’s ability to fight toxic invaders – including cancer. Rebounding is an effective exercise that reduces your body fat; firms your arms, legs, thighs, abdomen, and hips; increases your agility; strengthens your muscles overall; provides an aerobic effect for your cardiopulmonary systems; rejuvenates your body when it's tired, and generally puts you in a state of mental and physical wellness. A 150-pound person spending one hour on a rebounder will burn about 410 calories; the same person jogging for one hour (at the pace of five miles per hour) will burn only 355 calories. The more and the longer you do rebounding the better. 5 minutes is better than 3 or 30 better than 10. You have to find your own routine and do it every day or at least 3-4 times a week. With rebounding, you are exercising from the inside out. If you’ve been wanting to get into shape or shed those pounds that it seems like you just can’t shake, rebounding will do the trick for you. After just a few weeks or even days, you’ll start to see a difference and feel better. People who rebound find they are able to work longer, sleep better, and feel less tense and nervous. The effect is not just psychological, because the action of bouncing up and down against gravity effectively stimulates the lymphatic system without trauma to the musculoskeletal system. This unique discovery is central to the reasons Rebounding has become one of the most beneficial forms of exercise ever developed. The capacity of the lungs also increases, enabling them to process more air and replenish oxygen in the cells of the body's tissues and organs more quickly. Metabolism (conversion of food into energy) is enhanced and you tend to absorb nutrients from your food more efficiently. Any tendency towards constipation, kidney stones, or diabetes is reduced by this form of exercise. Rebounding Has Anti-Aging Benefits - One of the primary causes of the physical deterioration associated with aging is the declining performance of the heart and circulatory system. The pumping force of the heart decreases by 8% per decade in adulthood; lung capacity decreases, muscles lose strength, reaction time slows, and bones lose their mineral content. Exercise can help halt or at least slow this aging process. Dr. Akselsen has seen some remarkable results from her rebounding therapy. Children who had been unable to express themselves during their first 15 years of life, having a vocabulary of only a few words, were able, after a month or two of therapy, to speak in complete sentences and express their thoughts. "When the physical defect is corrected, the mental defect is also corrected," concludes Dr. Akselsen. Rebounding also benefits brain-injured children, according to a German study involving 20 patients. Trampoline therapy was judged to be a useful part of their medical rehabilitation treatment, producing improvements in standing balance and movement coordination. Rebounding Improves Breathing in Cystic Fibrosis - A Norwegian study examined the effects of rebounding on eight children, age 10 to 13, with cystic fibrosis (CF). This is a hereditary disease affecting ducts in the pancreas, sweat glands, and lungs, in which the ducts get clogged with thick mucus and cannot work properly. Children exercised on rebounders for 109 minutes weekly for two months. Two of the children with the most advanced lung problems increased their oxygen intake from 45 to 49 ml/kg/minute. In addition to providing this benefit, researchers recommended rebounding to CF patients as a way of breaking the monotony of their standard physical training programs. Emphysema patients pulmonary function improved by very gentle rebounding.The physical therapy department at the University of Michigan medical school reported, about 1980, that the very mild up and down motion from gentle rebounding on a mini-trampoline would very significantly improve the functional breathing capacity of people with severe emphysema. Unlike the circulatory system, in which the heart pumps our blood, the lymphatic system does not have a pump. It is a one-way valve, and the lymphatic system only works efficiently if three things take place: 1) exercise, 2) massage, and 3) gravity. I don’t know of any other exercise or form of movement that will work those three simultaneously other than rebounding. It helps the lymph system pump the uric acid, and other toxins from the tissues into the bloodstream efficiently and quickly. Exercises like rebounding that work the leg muscles help keep the blood moving. The contractions of these muscles (the calf muscles in particular) during exercise act like pumps to circulate the blood back up to the heart for fresh oxygen. The added benefit of having the lymphatic system energized during rebounding can’t be overemphasized in terms of achieving better total health. Dr. Arthur C. Guyton, Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, is recognized internationally for his expertise on lymphology and the lymphatic system. He had this to say about the importance of exercise: “The lymphatic group becomes very active during exercise but sluggish under resting conditions. During exercise, the rate of lymph flow can increase to as high as three to fourteen times normal because of increased activity.”  TopBack Next Back to article Your comment |
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