If You’re Interested in Rebounding, You’ve Come to the Right Place
We all know that we should exercise. For some of us, it’s difficult to find the time. For others, we just don’t like doing it. What if there was a way to exercise that was not only fast and efficient, but fun at the same time? What if I could show you a method of exercise so enjoyable, you’d forget you were exercising in the first place? How does exercising 10 minutes a day sound? Does that sound too good to be true? It’s not. It can be a reality. As little as 10 minutes a day yielding real results—real results that go beyond what you might think possible. Keep reading and I’ll show you why.
Let’s say you’ve made the commitment to start exercising. That’s great! But where do you go from there? For those of you who have made this commitment, you might just be faced with a new problem. That problem is: I want to start exercising, but where do I start? Figuring out how to start exercising can seem every bit as overwhelming as making the commitment to start exercising. “Should I start jogging?” “Should I buy some weights?” Should I just go to the gym and figure things out?” “Should I hire a personal trainer?” These are common questions people ask themselves once they make that initial commitment.
“I can’t jog outside right now. It’s winter and it’s freezing outside!” “I’m not jogging outside right now! It’s summer and it’s 90° outside! “But I hate going to the gym and being around in-shape people! I feel intimidated! I don’t want to be judged” “But, I don’t want to hurt myself with weights! What if I try to lift too much weight?” “What if I drop the weight and hurt myself?” These are all common reactions that people have.
What if there was a way to start exercising without ever stepping foot inside a gym? What if you had the freedom to exercise whenever you wanted? What if you could exercise in your living room, in your basement, on your back patio or anywhere else in your house or apartment? What if you could exercise early in the morning before work and before the kids wake up or after a stressful day at work? You do have this freedom. You have the freedom to exercise on your terms…wherever and whenever you want…all in a little as 10 minutes a day.
Now, let’s address another issue that people have. That is: “What types of exercise should I be doing?” Well, you could go jogging, biking, hiking, or swimming. This are all great aerobic exercises. Aerobic exercises are any exercises that increase your breathing and heart rate during the time you’re doing the exercise. This is also known as “cardio” exercises and this type of exercise has great benefits for the heart, lungs, and circulatory system of the body. However, these exercises, generally speaking, do not provide much benefit in the way of muscle toning and bone strengthening because they are not weight-bearing exercises. Yes, there is some weight resistance when you are biking or when you are swimming, but not as much as if you were performing a true, resistance-based exercise (see next paragraph).
You could do some pushups, squats, and some sit-ups. You could also pick some weights at the local sporting goods store or yard sale, if you don’t have them lying around the house already. With weights, you could do some overhead presses, some bench presses, some bicep curls, and a few lateral raises (don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with any of these terms; they’re part of a larger, overall point). This is called resistance training. These exercises are great for toning and building muscle and for building bone density, but, unless they are performed in rapid succession, you are missing out on cardiovascular conditioning. Now, you can string these exercises together to get a great cardiovascular workout while you’re doing resistance training, but this is a very intense workout (especially for beginners) that you must work up to. Also, prepare to be sore the next day if you’re not used to doing such workouts.
One other point on resistance training—there are two primary types of resistance training. They are called isometric exercise and isotonic exercise. Isometric exercise involves holding a pose or a body position is such a way that challenges certain muscles or muscle groups by placing them under tension for a certain period of time or until the muscles become fatigued and that position can no longer be held. Let me give you an example—walk over to a wall, turn around so that your back is against the wall, then take a half step away from the wall. Slowly begin to squat down as if you were preparing to sit down on a chair. At the same time to begin to squat, slowly rock back and let your back rest against the wall. Continue to squat down until you feel the muscles in your legs begin to tighten up. Hold this position until the muscles in your legs begin to burn but don’t hold it so long that you cannot raise yourself back up to a standing position. Congratulations! You’ve just completed an isometric exercise. You held a position which challenged the muscles in your legs, but you did not have to move during the exercise. You only moved to get into and out of the exercise position. Want to see other isometric exercise? Google yoga poses. Yoga contains many isometric positions. Isotonic exercise involves the muscle or muscle group being under tension while a joint is constantly moving. An isotonic exercise is probably more familiar to you. Common examples of isotonic exercise include pushups, sit-ups, and squats. You are constantly moving during these exercises. During pushups, the arms are constantly moving to push the body’s chest and stomach area up off the floor and then letting it go back down. In sit-ups, the abs and other core muscles are constantly moving to pull the body’s back off the floor and then letting it go back down. During squats, the legs muscles are constantly moving to move the body from a crouching position to a standing position. So, whether you’re performing an isometric exercise or an isotonic exercise, a muscle or muscle group is being met with resistance as it attempts to either hold a certain position or move the body within a certain range of motion. These are the basics of resistance training.
So, do you do cardiovascular exercises or resistance exercises? Should you do both? If so, what exercises do you do within each category and when should you do them? If you are going to do more than jogging, pushups, sit-ups, and squats, then do you need to buy equipment? If so, what equipment should you buy? Go to a local sporting goods store and you’ll see a dizzying array of exercise equipment. Should you buy several exercise programs? There are hundreds of them out there too. Which one’s right for you? See how a commitment to getting exercise can turn into an overwhelming list of questions?
What if there was one single piece of exercise equipment out there that could accomplish everything an entire gym’s worth of equipment could accomplish plus more? I don’t even like calling it a piece of exercise equipment. Let’s call it a tool. One tool that, when used properly, could replace every dumbbell, weight bar, weight bench, weight machine, exercise band, treadmill, elliptical machine, and stationary bike. You could get a great cardiovascular workout, but you could also workout all of your muscles. But that would really just be the beginning. What if you could not only exercise your muscles, but every organ, bone, gland, tendon, ligament, and piece of cartilage in your entire body? Everyone one of those components of the human physiology would be challenged to get stronger and operate more efficiently, just like your muscles. But that really just scratches the surface. What if this tool literally worked out and challenged the very building blocks of what make you, well, you? The most basic components that make up life. Yes, I’m talking about your cells, 76 trillion of them, to be exact. A tool to exercise at the cellular level. How is this even possible? It’s really quite simple. If we leverage the force of gravity on the entire body, then the body has no choice but to respond at the cellular level.
Let’s say we do a biceps curl. We place enough weight on each side of the bar so that we can safely do three sets, 15 times (or reps) per set. We do that three time a week for the next six months. We are leveraging gravity by pulling a weighted bar away from gravity, then slowly lowering it, only to pull it back up, away from gravity again. Eventually, we would need to either increase the number of sets we do, increase the number of reps we do, or increase the amount of weight on the bar. Why? Because the bicep muscles are getting bigger and stronger. They are responding to the challenges we have put them through. Muscles are made of cells, just like every other part of your body. So, if we leverage the force of gravity on the entire body, all at the same time, instead of just the cells in the bicep muscles getting stronger, every cell in the human body, all at the same time, would be responding to this gravitational challenge, becoming stronger in the process.
Let’s talk about the other half of this equation. Have you ever heard of the lymphatic system? Everyone has one and some people’s lymphatic system works better than others. What is your lymphatic system? Well, it’s basically your immune system in liquid form. Lymph fluid carries white blood cells throughout your entire body. White blood cells are your body’s main line of defense against infections arising from viruses, bacteria, and fungi. The lymph fluid itself is also responsible for carrying away both naturally occurring toxins (every cell produces metabolic waste as a result of its natural metabolic processes) and man-made toxins (pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants, water pollutants, etc.). However, unlike the fluid (blood) in your circulatory system, which has a pump (your heart) to keep the fluid moving, your lymphatic system has no such pump to keep it moving. Therefore, your lymphatic system relies on movement to keep it moving efficiently and properly. You may have heard that exercise is great for boosting the immune system. This is why. Exercise of any kind gets the lymph fluid moving throughout your body. This is also why sometimes when you have a cold, fever, sore throat, or some other similar type of illness, if you get up and start moving around, you start to feel better, and the symptoms subside. As I stated earlier, any type of movement or exercise benefits the lymphatic system. However, this type of exercise that leverages gravity on the entire body moves the lymphatic fluid throughout the body like no other.
So, one tool that can exercise the entire body, all at the same time, at the cellular level and can optimize the body’s immune system in a way no other method can. What am I talking about? Welcome to rebounding.
What is rebounding? That question has a multipart answer. First of all, let’s talk about what a rebounder is. A rebounder is sometimes referred to as, and looks similar to, a minitrampoline. However, they are quite different. A minitrampoline is a piece of recreational equipment that you jump on. A rebounder is also a piece of equipment you jump on, but rebounders (at least the good ones) are geared for serious exercise. They are typically built to a much higher standard of quality (again, the good ones are). Rebounding involves jumping repeatedly on a rebounder as part of a workout routine. Remember what I said about leveraging gravity on the entire body? This is how we achieve that. Let me explain further. When you jump on a rebounder, there are four parts to the range of motion. The upward motion to the top of the jump, the top of the jump (where you are momentarily weightless), the downward motion to the bottom of the jump, and the bottom of the jump (where you can weigh as much as three times your actual weight). It is at the bottom of the jump where every component of your body is challenged by additional gravitational force, just like when you were challenging your bicep muscles by pulling a bar away from gravity. So, every cell in the body is experiencing additional gravitational force at the bottom of the jump. At the top of the jump, you are basically weightless for a split second. This would be the equivalent of the rest period in between reps when curling the biceps bar. So, your cells are basically flexing literally a hundred times a minute while jumping on a rebounder. As your cells flex, a vacuum-type pressure is created within the body. Lymphatic fluid that contains dead viruses, dead bacteria, dead fungi, and toxins is squeezed out of every cell, with each cell taking in fresh, clean lymphatic fluid.
How could something as simple as jumping have so many wonderful benefits and if it’s so simple, why wasn’t this known years ago? Well, as human beings, especially in this modern day in age, we tend to gravitate towards complex solutions. “Only the latest and most expensive of exercise equipment will get me into shape.” or “Only the latest advances in medical technology can help me.” While these statements may be true in many cases, it is my experience that we tend to overlook the simple answer that was there all along. Step back and think about what you have read thus far and give it some thought. Does it make sense? Does it appeal to your common sense? Could it really work? Even if your answer is “maybe” to any of these questions, I encourage you keep reading and further explore this website.
If you’d rather get right to it, I recommend (and own) two different rebounders. Rebounders can be broadly divided into two different categories—spring rebounders and bungee rebounders (there are advantages and disadvantages to both). The Cellerciser® is the best spring rebounder on the market today. While the bellicon® is the best bungee rebounder on the market today. Click the buttons below to learn more about each of them.
