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The Health Benefits of Trampolining

Trampolining gives holistic health benefits to the adult and to the child bouncer alike. In comparison to jogging, for example, trampolining is more effective by producing more aerobic exercise faster - a ten minute session provides equivalent benefits to a half hour run.

In detail, the health benefits of trampolining include:

Cardiovascular Fitness
Trampolines and rebounders increase your muscles' strength and fitness by increasing your pulse rate and ensuring that oxygen is pumped around the body more efficiently, making you feel healthier and more alert. Trampoline is often recommended and approved by doctors following a heart attack to help strengthen the heart.

Stronger bones
The exercise provided by trampolining is strenuous and repetitive. The jump action puts the bones under repeated slight, low impact stress which helps the musculoskeletal system develop and build up. Research suggests it also helps improve bone mineral content by increased bone development over time. As a result, it also helps to prevent brittle bone disease, or osteoporosis. Due to the low impact nature of trampolining, the bones are developed without the potential damage which can arise from other exercises such as running.

Trim and Tone
Trampolining uses almost every mucle in the body – in particular the stomach muscles, the arms and the legs. This all helps to keep your tummy trim, your bottom toned, your thighs slim. The exercise and muscle control required is a first rate means of burning fat, toning up and keeping the weight off. It also helps develop coordination and skills applicable in other exercise regimes. The trampoline is always outdoors so fresh air is an unavoidable added extra.

Co-ordination and Motor Skills
Trampoline exercise is proven to develop skills allowing sports people and high energy working people such as engineers to undertake several activities requiring concentration at the same time. Tramponing involves bouncing, balancing, maintaining the body's position and anticipating the next action all at the same time. This is proven to have a positive effect on co-ordination and motor skills, and allows the trampolinist to control several different muscles and limbs at the same time.

Increased metabolism

Research clearly shows that trampoline exercise increases your metabolic rate, helping your body to process nutrients more effectively and efficiently. This helps to you keep your weight down, and helps to ensure your body is getting all the nutrients and sustenance it needs.

Detoxifying and Lymphatic Stimulation
The lymph system is a detoxification system of the body by which lymphatic fluid flows from the interstitial spaces (the spaces around cells) into the blood. Unlike the blood circulation system which relies on the heart, the lymphatic system relies on gravity and body movement to produce flow of lymphatic fluids. Bouncing on a trampoline (including a rebounder) stimulates the lymphatic system and helps rid your body of toxins, trapped protein, bacteria, viruses, and waste cells. Gravitational forces at the top of the bounce is zero so the body is weightless for a fraction of a second. At the bottom of the bounce, the gravitational force is double the normal gravity at ground level as the body’s direction is changed and internal organs are put under pressure. This stimulates cellular activity and the lymphatic system.

Mental health
As with any strenuous exercise, improved circulation pumps oxygen into the brain, making you feel more alert, happier, more positive and even more self confident. Endorphins, the positive mood enhancing natural chemicals stimulated by all exercise are produced by trampolining as well. Added to this is the sheer excitement and fun of jumping up and down in a safe environment – it is guaranteed to make you smile, make you laugh, make you feel really happy. It's simply unavoidable that this will stimulate your mental state and has undoubtedly positive effects on your mental health.

Autism
Tests have shown trampolining to have positive effects on children with autism. The fun, positive mental state and the sense of well-being generated are all reinforced by awareness of the person’s body position and how the body responds to movement through the air. These help to develop sensory awareness and physical coordination.

Qualities of a trampoline

Convenience
The trampoline or rebounder by its nature and the space it requires means that there is always a space set up in which you can exercise at any time. There is no need to get to the gym or sports centre, no need to find a new track or path for your run or bike ride, and no need for a special set of clothing. The trampoline is generally set up in the same place all the time. It is easy to reach, and in the privacy of your own home and you can put on any clothing which you feel comfortable in to use the trampoline. You can also trampoline on your own without the need for a sports partner so it is available at any time.

Low impact
Trampolining or rebounding is a very low joint impact activity for an intensive exercise routine in comparison to most other sports such as running and courst sports. Alley Oop Double Bounce Technology improves this even further with its Alley Oop Double Bounce Technology. The trampoline’s bed is a highly specialised and technically advanced piece of equipment, designed specifically to avoid heavy impact to the body. The bed absorbs over 80% of the shock of the body meeting the surface of the bed as opposed to the hard surfaces of roads or courts which absord none of the impact. Trampolining therefore protects your joints whilst exercising your muscles and developing bone structure and strength.

Safety
Trampolining at home in a responsible manner is safer than most other forms of exercise. There is no traffic to contend with, no flying balls, racquets and far fewer opportunities to twist or break something.

Exercise, health and fun combined
In a trampoline, you have an excellent form of exercise in the safety of your own home, which if used responsibly and frequently gives undoubted benefits to all aspects of health, and is also a wonderful leisure tool providing hours of fun for the whole family

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