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Rebounder (Mini-Trampoline)
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Interest in health and fitness in North America is growing, yet practical involvement in daily exercise such as jogging is declining.
The rebound mini-trampoline is about 3' in diameter and 9" high. Foldable models are available for traveling. It is safe, easy to use, and effective. Research has led some scientists to conclude that, "Rebound exercise is the most efficient and effective exercise yet devised by man."
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rebounder subjects the body to gravitational pulls ranging from zero at
the top of each bounce to 2 - 3 times the force of gravity at the bottom,
depending on how high the person is rebounding. Unlike jogging on hard surfaces
which puts extreme stress on certain joints such as the ankles and knees
eventually damaging them, rebounding affects every joint and cell in the
body equally. Plus, there are no cars, dogs, and bad weather to contend
with.
Doctors recommend that everyone get moderate exercise three to four times each week. Dr. Dean Ornish's program for reversing heart disease, for example, includes walking 30 minutes daily or 60 minutes every other day. This recommendation is due to the body's inbuilt need for activation. The lymph system, for example, bathes every cell, carrying nutrients to the cell and waste products away. Yet the lymph is totally dependent on physical exercise to move. Without adequate movement, the cells are left stewing in their own waste products and starving for nutrients, a situation which contributes to arthritis, cancer and other degenerative diseases as well as aging. Vigorous exercise such as rebounding is reported to increase lymph flow by 15 to 30 times. Bones become stronger with exercise.
The lymph fluid moves through channels called "vessels" that are filled with one way valves, so it always moves in the same direction. The main lymph vessels run up the legs, up the arms and up the torso. This is why the vertical up and down movement of rebounding is so effective to pump the lymph.
Restrictive clothing prevents the flow of blood and lymph. Wearing a bra to prevent sagging breasts actually weakens the muscles and connective tissue helping to create sagging breasts. The free movement of the breasts during walking and exercise helps to pump the lymph through the breast tissue.
| Hours in a Bra Per Day* | Chance of Breast Cancer* |
| 24 | 75.00% (3 out of 4) |
| >12 (but not to bed) | 14.28% (1 out of 7) |
| <12 | 00.66%(1 out of 152) |
| 0 (or rarely) | 00.60% (1 out of 168) |
*Singer and Grismaijer, 1995.
In addition to exercise, Dr. Dean Ornish's 4 step program to prevent and reverse heart disease includes low-fat vegetarian diet, nonsmoking, and meditation. Clean arteries are necessary so that oxygen can be freely distributed to all parts of the body, an important factor in cancer prevention and removal. EDTA chelation also effectively cleans out the arteries. "While 800,000 Americans die every year from heart disease, a cheap, effective medical remedy continues to be suppressed.
Rebounding is a zero-impact aerobic exercise which improves blood circulation and increases the capacity of both the heart and lungs. With regular rebounding the resting heart rate can decline 10 beats per minute, which means 5,000 fewer heartbeats in a single night's sleep.
Your Pulse Rate Reflects Your Fitness Level
When you awaken in the morning - before moving - take your
pulse for one full minute. This is your resting pulse. People with pulse
rates from 40 to 60 are very fit, 60 to 80 are normal, and 80 to 100 are
usually unfit.
The rebounding motion stimulates all internal organs, moves the cerebral-spinal fluid, aqueous fluid within the eyes (many people claim improved eyesight), and does wonders for the intestines. Many immune cells such as T-lymphocytes and macrophages are self-propelled by amebic action. These cells contain molecules identical to those in muscle tissue. All cells in the body become stronger in response to the increased G force during rebounding, and this cellular exercise results in the self-propelled immune cells being up to 5 times more active. The job description of these cells includes eating viruses, bacteria and even cancer cells, so it is good that they be active. This exercise directly strengthens the immune system.
When the outer coating of cancer cells has been dissolved by the enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin then the cells of the immune system will attack the cancer cells. Therefore, enzyme supplements combined with rebound exercise are a useful way to combat cancer. A vegetarian diet is also helpful because trypsin and chymotrypsin are used by the body to digest animal proteins, and if you do not eat animal proteins then the body's store of trypsin and chymotrypsin is available for attacking cancer.
Everyone
starts with the "health bounce" which means your feet remain in
contact with the mat while the body moves up and down. The health bounce
is sufficient to give all the benefits of rebounding while gently strengthening
the entire body. The health bounce can be done while talking on the phone,
listening to music or watching TV. It is recommended that you wear running
shoes or do your rebounding with bare feet so you do not slip.
Adults start with 5 minutes of rebounding and increase their
time as fitness improves. Seniors start with 2 minutes ten times per day,
with at least 30 minutes between sessions. It is necessary for older people
to start gradually in order to give the connective tissue holding internal
organs in place time to strengthen. This prevents the possibility of prolapsed
organs - the only contraindication to rebounding reported in the literature.
Inactive or wheelchair bound seniors find that rebounding gives them renewed
vigor and zest for life. Blind or handicapped people can purchase a hand
rail that attaches to their rebound mini-trampoline. Hyperactive children
are reported to calm down after a few days of rebounding. Rebounding is
for everyone. People can use the rebound mini-trampoline whenever they have
a few minutes during the day
The Many Benefits of Rebounding
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Rebounding Benefits the Body in 30 Healthful Ways |
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How Rebound Exercise Accomplishes Its Benefits |
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Jumping's Oxygenating Effect |
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Burning Calories |
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The Detoxification Effect of Rebounding |
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Rebounding's Stabilization Effect on the Nervous System |
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The Physical Muscular Effect of Rebounding |
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Emphysema and Rebounding |
Rebounding Benefits the Body in 30 Healthful ways
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Rebounding is an exercise that reduces your body fat; firms your legs, thighs, abdomen, arms, and hips; increases your agility; improves your sense of balance; strengthens your muscles over all; provides an aerobic effect for your heart; rejuvenates your body when it's tired, and generally puts you in a state of health and fitness. You can easily perform this exercise in your living room, your office, and your yard. The traveler may wish to carry a portable rebounder aboard an airliner for use in a hotel room. It's the most convenient, metabolically effective form of exercise around. |
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Photograph 1. Shown is a deluxe NEEDAK® rebounding device on which and exerciser is jogging without feeling the jarring effect of landing on pavement.
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There are 30 health advantages of regular rebounding, including the following:
- It increases the capacity for respiration.
- It circulates more oxygen to the tissues.
- It establishes a better equilibrium between the oxygen required by the tissues and the oxygen made available.
- It causes muscles to perform work in moving fluids through the body to lighten the heart's load.
- It tends to reduce the height to which the arterial pressures rise during exertion.
- It lessens the time during which blood pressure remains abnormal after severe activity.
- It holds off the incidence of cardiovascular disease.
- It increases the functional activity of the red bone marrow in the production of red blood cells.
- It aids lymphatic circulation, as well as the flow in the veins of the circulatory system.
- It encourages collateral circulation.
- It strengthens the heart and other muscles in the body so that they work more efficiently.
- It allows the resting heart to beat less often.
- It lowers elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
- It stimulates the metabolism.
- It promotes body growth and repair.
- It tones up the glandular system, especially the thyroid to increase its output.
- It adds to the alkaline reserve of the body which may be of significance in an emergency requiring prolonged effort.
- It chemically attains absolute potential of the cells.
- It reserves bodily strength and physical efficiency.
- It expands the body's capacity for fuel storage and endurance.
- It improves coordination through the transmission of nerve impulses and responsiveness of the muscle fibers.
- It affords muscular vigor from increased muscle fiber tone.
- It offers relief from neck and back pains, headaches, and other pain caused by lack of exercise.
- It enhances digestion and elimination processes.
- It allows for better and easier relaxation and sleep.
- It results in a better mental performance, with keener learning processes.
- It curtails fatigue and menstrual discomfort for women.
- It minimizes the number of colds, allergies, digestive disturbances, and abdominal problems.
- It tends to slow down aging.
- It reduces the likelihood of obesity.
How Rebound Exercise Accomplishes Its Benefits
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Rebounding involves aerobic movements performed on a bouncing device that looks like a small trampoline. It has you jumping up and down for health and fitness. As an ideal jumping device, the mini-trampoline or "rebounder," has a strong woven mat attached by coiled steel springs to a circular steel frame. The rebounder usually is round, although some models have been made oval, rectangular, square or polygonal. The entire jumping surface of the mat is twenty-eight inches in diameter, stands on six legs with spring coils of their own, which are seven to nine inches high. Sometimes, for people who feel unsteady on their feet or for the elderly, handicapped, and disabled, a stabilizing bar may be added to the rebounder's frame (see Photograph 2). It's attached to two of the frame's legs so that the individual needing more security can hold onto this bar and still bounce aerobically.
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Photograph 2. Shown is the NEEDAK® Soft Bounce™ rebounder with a stabilizing bar attached. This bar offers those who feel unsteady on their feet a greater sense of security while rebounding. |
When jumping on a well-made rebounder, the exerciser usually feels invigorated and filled with a sense of well-being. People who rebound find they're 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, without trauma to the musculoskeletal system, is one of the most beneficial aerobic exercises ever developed.
Rebounding aerobics is working with gravity to cleanse your tissue cells and act as an oxygenator, which, in turn, lightens the load on the heart. Also it's fun to bounce! Much more than fun, however, rebounding provides a number of physiological pick-me-ups for the person who sustains this activity for at least ten minutes, four times a day, or for a single daily session for 40 minutes. As you bounce, your feet hit the mat with twice the force of gravity. Then just as the astronauts experience while floating in space, your body is in a state of weightlessness at the top of the bounce.
Jumping on the mini-trampoline is remarkably un-strenuous on the Joints. There's no solid ground to suddenly stop the bouncing of your feet. Your movements are perfectly safe, and they make the effect of gravity beneficial. By working against constant gravitational pressure while bouncing, you resist the Earth's pull. Your resistance is subtle, but it builds cellular strength. Rebounding's alternating weightlessness and double gravity produce a pumping action which pulls out waste products from the cells and forces into them, oxygen and nutrition from the bloodstream.
Jumping's Oxygenating Effect
If you have a resting heart rate of less than 60 beats a minute, don't smoke, don't have chest pain, live a healthful lifestyle, and engage in rebounding for 40 minutes or more each day, at least five days a week, theoretically it's not likely that you'll ever develop a heart problem if you have none now. Jumping on a rebounder helps you to attain your heart rate target zone every day that you rebound for the recommended 40 minutes.
Rebound exercise strengthens your heart in two ways: It improves the tone and quality of the muscle itself, and it increases the coordination of the fibers as they wring blood out of the heart during each beat. The aerobic effect while you are rebound-jumping equals and often surpasses that of running.
Your rate of rebounding will vary, depending on how vigorously you bounce and how high you lift your feet off the mat. Rebound exercise offers the ideal aerobic effect with almost any rate of performance, because it fills all the requisites of an oxygenating exercise. Rebounding might be considered a precursor movement for better achieving the oxygen therapies.
Burning Calories
Rebounding offers a less stressful means of reducing body fat and simultaneously
firming body tissues. Running in place on the rebounder burns calories effectively.
According to a person's body weight, Table A shows how many calories from
running on the rebounder may be expended per specified period of time in minutes.
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Rebounding offers a less stressful means of reducing body fat and simultaneously firming body tissues. Running in place on the rebounder burns calories effectively. According to a person's body weight, Table A shows how many calories from running on the rebounder may be expended per specified period of time in minutes. |
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Table A |
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| Lbs. Body Weight | 90 | 100 | 110 | 120 | 130 | 140 | 150 | 160 | 170 | 180 | 190 |
| 1 Min. | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| 5 Min. | 14.5 | 17.0 | 19.5 | 22.0 | 24.5 | 27.0 | 30.0 | 32.5 | 35.0 | 37.5 | 40.0 |
| 10 Min. | 29.0 | 34.0 | 39.0 | 44.0 | 49.0 | 54.0 | 60.0 | 65.0 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 80.0 |
| 15 Min. | 43.5 | 51.0 | 58.5 | 66.0 | 73.5 | 81.0 | 90.0 | 97.5 | 105.0 | 112.5 | 120.0 |
| 20 Min. | 58.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 88.0 | 98.0 | 108.0 | 120.0 | 130.0 | 140.0 | 150.0 | 160.0 |
The Detoxification Effect of Rebounding
The lymphatic system is the metabolic garbage can of the body. It rids you of toxins such as dead and cancerous cells, nitrogenous wastes, fat, infectious viruses, heavy metals, and other assorted junk cast off by the cells. The movement performed in rebounding provides the stimulus for a free-flowing system that drains away these potential poisons.
Unlike the arterial system, the lymphatic system does not have its own pump. It has no heart muscle to move the fluid around through its lymph vessels. There are just three ways to activate the flow of lymph away from the tissues it serves and back into the main pulmonary circulation. Lymphatic flow requires muscular contraction from exercise and movement, gravitational pressure, and internal massage to the valves of lymph ducts.
Rebounding supplies all three methods of removing waste products from the cells and from the body. Then arterial blood enters the capillaries in order to furnish the cells with fresh tissue fluid containing food and oxygen. The bouncing motion effectively moves and recycles the lymph and the entire blood supply through the circulatory system many times during the course of the rebounding session.
Rebounding is a lymphatic exercise. As stated earlier, it has the same effect on your body as jumping rope, but without any jarring effect to the ankles, knees, and lower back that comes from hitting the ground. Better than rope jumping, however, the lymphatic channels get put under hydraulic pressure to move fluids containing waste products of metabolism around and out of the body through the left subclavian vein.
Rebounding's Stabilizing Effect on the Nervous System
Bouncing on a rebounder is an excellent method of reducing stress. It can put the bouncing person into a trance like state and totally relax him or her. Jumping for health and fitness not only stabilizes the nervous system during the exercise period, but continues to help maintain equilibrium after one steps off the device. The result is increased resistance to environmental, physical, emotional, and mental stress. It may possibly help an individual to avoid psychosomatic disease and mental or behavioral instability.
Rebounding may be enjoyed for a lifetime and adjusted to your own particular level of fitness. It is safe, convenient and inexpensive, and its protective effects against degenerative diseases make it one of the most effective forms of motion in the work place, in recreational pursuits, or in simply exercising for the care of your body and mind.
The Physical Muscular Effect of Rebounding
James White, Ph.D., director of research and rehabilitation in the physical education department at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), has explained how jumping for health offers a true physical strengthening effect to the muscles. He said, "Rebounding allows the muscles to go through the full range of motion at equal force. It helps people learn to shift their weight properly and to be aware of body positions and balance."
An advocate of rebounding for athletic conditioning, Dr. White uses the rebounder in his rehabilitation program at UCSD. "When you jump, jog, and twist on this (jumping) device you can exercise for hours without getting tired. It's great practice for skiing, it improves your tennis stroke, and it's a good way to burn off calories and lose weight," said Dr. White (see Table A). "My students tell me it's so much fun that they often exercise on the rebounders for their own enjoyment."
Dr. White added that jumping for health is more effective for fitness and weight loss than cycling, running or jogging, and it has the added advantage of producing fewer injuries.
As illustrated and explained in my book, Jumping for Health, there are 33 different exercises that may be performed advantageously on the rebounding device.
The gentle bounce of rebounding is effective in returning natural, regular bowel movements to chronically constipated persons. The steady bounce sets up a pulsating rhythm transmitted by the nervous system to the brain area responsible for regulating the intestinal system, which reestablishes one's rhythmical bowel activity. Digestion is improved as well.
*Resources
The above article published in "Townsend Letter for Doctors"
Recommended Reading:
"Jumping for Health"
by Morton Walker, D.P.M.
Copyright by Dr. Morton Walker
Emphysema and Rebounding
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. This improvement was separate from the exercise portion of this motion since someone else could do the bouncing while the patient simply sat on the middle of the trampoline. Now, nearly 20 years later, when anyone contacts this department there is no longer anyone there who knows anything about this breakthrough.
I am terribly disappointed that this valuable discovery has been swept under the rug in such a short time. I have had to accept that the medical monopoly refuses to acknowledge any inexpensive, safe and very effective approaches discovered; since these kind of approaches can be construed as being in competition with the licensed physician/prescription system presently in control of this country. However, I still mourn when things like this happen.
I can give you no more information than to suggest you do a literature search for any research about combining rebounding and emphysema published in the late '70s or early '80s. I can tell you the gist of the findings that were reported but I did not save the article since I was still, at that time, naive about the pervasive efforts of my profession at suppressing such information. I just assumed that the findings would be expanded upon and would soon be the "standard of practice" in at least this country. Instead, it has been buried as too inexpensive and also being something that any non-licensed person could provide.
If I had late stage emphysema, I would get a mini-trampoline for my home and very gently bounce on it for about 10 minutes twice a day. If I was so far gone as to not be able to bounce myself, I would find a friend willing to bounce on it the same amount of time while I was sitting on the center of the trampoline. Just that much would be enough to start showing results in a couple of weeks. As soon as I was enough improved that I could do it myself, my friend wouldn't have to come over any more. Just sitting on the mini-trampoline and rhythmically waving your hands and forearms up and down will quickly start an up and down motion of the entire body that would do a lot of good.
The important thing to remember is that, apparently, what does the good has nothing to do with this being exercise. The effects accrue from the reciprocal up and down motion. The minimum amount that works is 10 minutes twice a day and more helps more. We MDs have no real solution to this problem and people deserve to know that the Allopathic Monopoly is not offering emphysema patients all of their options. There are more options not commonly offered emphysema patients and I would be happy to discuss them on the website Bulletin Board1 where others might benefit from the communications.
Courtesy of Dr. Walt Stoll
1 Dr. Walt Stoll's website
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