Rebounding on a Mini-Trampolene or Running on a Treadmill?
If you just bounce up and down on an indoor rebounder it’s a great way to get a cardiovascular workout, and it’s great for your lymphathic system, too. It’s a great way to stimulate the detoxification of your cells, which very few other forms of exercise can do.
Buying an indoor trampoline is much less expensive than a treadmill. It’s also small enough that you can set it up and stick it in front of the TV and just bounce on it for a couple minutes a day to reap the benefits. You can even buy videos with exercise routines so that using the rebounder isn’t so boring.
These are all great benefits. It's not as boring a treadmill running either. Plus, you probably won't hurt your joints as you can with treadmills. Most of all, when I see people running on a treadmill, they're usually just walking and hardly toning up at all. On a rebounder, you'll definiotely lose weight and get fit for sure!
Since it’s small enough, you can even take a rebounder with you on trips in a car or plane. With a rebounder you also don’t need to exercise for twenty minutes three times a week at your target heart rate to get great benefits, because just a few minutes a couple times a week will do it.
Here’s why.
All forms of exercise have a specific purpose. Maybe the purpose of some specific exercise might be to get your heart rate up (cardiovascular), or build specific muscles as in weight training, but the rebounder has the ability to work on all the muscles and cells in your body. No other exercise can do that. It’s only considered a low level of trauma to the musculoskeletal system as well, so it’s not likely to hurt you at all.
At least that’s the word from research done by NASA.
Because you’re bouncing up and down, a rebounder lets you exercise every cell of your body through the factor of whole body vibration … so it gets you exercising muscle groups that would never get exercised otherwise. In fact, NASA has determined that “the magnitude of the biomechanical stimuli is greater with jumping on a trampoline than with running.”
I don’t know if you are keen on trying something as non-traditional as the mini-trampoline (all this stuff is “unorthodox” until everyone starts doing it), but it’s my job to let you know the easiest and best ways to stay in shape that offer the most benefits, and this is one of the secrets to great health.
If you want to get one, the rebounder I most often recommend is the U.S. made Needak Rebounder, either the ½ fold or non-fold.
About one million people join health clubs every month, and in two months time about 75% of this number won’t return to use their memberships anymore. So remember that the most important exercise is the one you do … or should we say, “the one you continue to do.”
Exercise won’t help anyone if it doesn’t get done, so don’t try to choose the “perfect exercise” to do. Rather, select the one you’ll continue with. There’s running, biking, weight training and the rebounder as well as tennis, volleyball, skiing and the other “normal ones” you’d normally consider.
Rebounders vs treadmills? I think you'll find that once you get started, you'll do the rebounder routine much more often than the treadmill.
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