Jump Your Way To Health
With The Rebounder!
Developed through N.A.S.A. research,
rebounding is the most efficient form of exercise to stimulate the
body’s circulation through all 60,000 miles of lymph and blood
vessels.
The quest for improved health and longevity has gained notoriety
in the past decade. An avalanche of literature on new studies, theories
and strategies about good health has hit the national media, as
people of all ages and walks of life seek a higher quality of life
or just want to feel more energetic and enthusiastic.
We seek to promote good health by the products we choose to offer
and the literature we recommend. We are pleased to offer our rebounding
unit and want to share the astounding efficiency of this exercising
device and its many benefits.
Exercise comes and goes in importance in the public eye. Research
is mounting that supports the importance of regular exercise to
our total health. Many doctors, nutritionists and health care professionals
are acknowledging the critical importance of exercise in the healing
of their patients. Covert Bailey, a nutritionist who wrote Fit or
Fat, has found that to be fit equals health. He says you have to
enjoy your particular form of exercise and be consistent with it
to get results.
What usually motivates us to exercise? Some people are aware that
exercise can relieve tension and so may counteract a stressful job
with vigorous exercise. The American Academy of Family Physicians
conducted a survey in 1979, which was answered by 4,500 people in
six occupational groups. Results showed physicians and business
executives used exercise as a means of coping with stress for at
least 50% of the time; teachers-30%; secretaries-26%; garment workers-25%.
The major activities were walking, dancing, calisthenics and bicycling.1
The desire to lose weight is an ever-popular motivation to exercise.
Mr. Bailey shines some light on fat metabolism and the best fat
burning exercise. He says that fat needs oxygen and a little sugar
to break down. If the muscle is out of oxygen, it will burn sugar
and produce lactic acid that leads to cramps and spasms of the muscle.
Fat is burned when large muscles are being used for at least 15
minutes, while still being able to talk during your session. Without
that oxygen, no fat will burn. The more muscles that are engaged
at a moderate intensity, the higher percentage of fat will be burned
off. So jogging uses more than cycling, or cross country skiing
more than jogging. Rebounding would beat them all as each cell is
affected by the gravitational forces of acceleration and deceleration.
Rebounding is cellular exercise!
Preventing or overcoming ill health should be an exercise motivator.
In 1978 over 60 million people were overweight and 53 million had
high blood pressure. Both of these situations can make people prone
to back troubles, hernias, cancer, heart attack and strokes.2 A
person can have up to 70% occlusion of the arteries without symptoms
of pathology.3 High cholesterol (LDL) seems to be an urgent widespread
problem as stress becomes a constant companion in our everyday lives.
The good news is that exercise helps alleviate these and many other
problems!
• A study by Dr. R. Sanders Williams, in 1980, showed a measured
increase in clot dissolving activity after a 10 week physical conditioning
program.4
• Dr. Paffenbarger, in 1973, did an analysis of medical records
of longshoreman over a 22 year period and found that “men between
35 and 55, in the most strenuous jobs, had the fewest fatal heart
attacks.”5
• Dr. William Haskel’s(Stanford University School of Medicine)
study of 4600 men and women showed that moderate levels of activity
increases the amount of High density lipoproteins (HDL) in the blood.6
HDL’s remove cholesterol from the arteries and those people
who tend to heart attacks have low levels of HDL in their blood.
• Dr. L. Howard Hartley (Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical
School), found that people who “regularly exercise reduce their
levels of serum cholesterol and serum triglycerides.”7 He also
found that the systolic blood pressure was reduced as well with
those who had high blood pressure previously.
• Oxygen saturation of the blood maintains itself best (as
high as 95%) in active individuals.8
Why choose rebounding?
All exercise increases circulation
of the blood and lymph systems, yet these benefits are primarily
enjoyed by the muscles engaged. This is demonstrated by the endless
convolutions of the aerobic routine, which are bent on working every
muscle ever named. In rebounding, every cell of the body experiences
the gravitational effects of acceleration and deceleration. The
gravitational force “at the top of the bounce is eliminated
and the body becomes weightless for a fraction of a second. At the
bottom of the bounce (when you touch the mat) the G-force suddenly
doubles the ordinary gravity on earth, and internal organs are put
under pressure. Their cellular stimulation is increased accordingly
so that waste materials within the cells are squeezed out. The lymphatics
carry the waste away to be disposed of through the urinary and other
excretory mechanisms. Rebounding makes the body cleaner.”9
All areas of the body, on the surface and within the deep tissues
of the internal organs, benefit from the activation of the lymph
assisting in the removal of waste that may have been slowly building
up over a period of time. With the pressurized removal of the waste
surrounding our cells, a partial vacuum is created, causing the
nutrients from the blood to be absorbed more readily into the cells
needing the nourishment. We are freed of poisons that can deteriorate
our health and we are supplied with the building blocks for repair
and regeneration. These benefits begin as soon as you start bouncing.
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Founders of
Rebounding
Dr. Sneider is one of the founders
of rebounding. His daughter practically grew up on trampolines
and rebounders, and while she was a petite high school student,
her muscles were so strong and coordinated that she could
beat any boy in her school at arm wrestling! This shows that
it is not necessary to build massive muscles for strength,
coordination and high level athletic performance. Imagine
how you can benefit from rebounding even a few minutes a day.
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Benefits of Rebounding
1. Strengthens the heart muscle
passively rather than through effort. The increased gravitational
force causes greater contraction of the heart muscles and other
muscles, which will gently increase their strength. The heart will
be able to pump blood with greater force ensuring the nourishment
of all 60 trillion cells in the body. The heart will also beat less
at rest, lessening its wear and tear. Rebounding offers these benefits
without overexertion.
2. Instant aerobic affects. The bone marrow is stimulated to increase
red blood cell production, the carriers of oxygen throughout the
body. The peripheral circulation is opened up and oxygen, nourishment
and waste removal reaches deeper and farther. The lung capacity
is increased by muscular movements of the diaphragm, which leads
to chest expansion.
3. Internal organs are exercised. The processes of elimination and
digestion will be enhanced.
4. Reduces fat and cellulite on the arms, legs, hips and thighs.
A strengthening and firmness will be experienced throughout the
body.
5. Aids the lymphatic circulation, which is dependent on the movement
of muscles, to expel the lymph from around the cells. This one benefit
could lead to a reduction in neck, back and joint pains, general
body weakness and a number of common ills. Many people have quickly
overcome the common cold and flu symptoms by a gentle, frequent
use of their rebounders at the onset of the illness.
6. Increased agility, coordination and sense of balance.
7. Better sleep patterns and greater ability to relax.
8. Lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
9. Hardening of the arteries are reversed,
prevented or diminished.
10. Enhancement of mental performance and capacity to learn.
11. Rejuvenation of a tired body.
12. Improvment in vision. (Great for use with vision development
and vision training activities)
13. Maintain bone density. |
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A study of women over the age
of 50 at University of Arkansas-Fayetteville found that those involved
in gardening have higher bone density than those who get exercise
through swimming, aerobics, dancing and jogging. Yard work is weight-bearing
exercise, which helps prevent osteoporosis, a disease affecting
over 25 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women.
The most efficient weight-bearing exercise is rebounding, as it
amplifies the gravitational field effects on the body. Originally
developed through N.A.S.A. research, it stimulates bone tissue and
immune functions that normally fail in zero gravity conditions.
“Those who rebound find themselves able to work without tiring,
sleep better, eat more nutritionally and feel less tense.”10
5 Levels of Rebounder Activities
according to the Wizard:
| Level |
Purpose |
Activity |
| 1. |
Flexibility |
Stretching without bounce
to prepare muscles to respond without strain. |
| 2. |
Detoxification |
Gentle bounce
for lymph drainage (active or passive). |
| 3. |
Coordination |
Sensory/motor integration
through rhythmic movement patterns. |
| 4. |
Endurance |
Aerobic cardiovascular conditioning
through speed and repetition. |
| 5. |
Strength |
Musculoskeletal conditioning
through increased bounce height. |
A few testimonials to attest
to the rebounders acheivments:
• One woman was so debilitated
by a series of several operations from which she hemorrhaged severely,
that she could not even talk or walk much less stand. She placed
her feet on the rebounder and her husband did the jumping. Within
a few weeks she was able to stand and bounce on her own and within
several months her strength came back. She continued to rebound
and overcame completely her previous malady and became pregnant.
This was a great feat as she lost one ovary and three quarters of
the other during her illness.
| • Nancy Martin had chronic disequilibrium
for 30 years. She fell down whenever she stood still. She also
suffered from chronic discomfort in her hip at the site of an
old injury. Cataracts were developing and beginning to affect
her vision. All three difficulties improved dramatically with
the rebounder. Her vision improved in three weeks, the hip pain
disappeared and the disequilibrium improved radically. |
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• Ethel Lane, 86 years
old, restored impaired hearing.
• Ed Pelegrini is in remission from pleural cancer, through
the use of the rebounder. Pleural is a form of lung cancer that
is difficult to cure. The doctors had given up hope and there was
nothing left for him to do. Through Dr. Walker’s advice he
began to rebound, even though it was extremely painful and he was
in such a weakened state. He started with a few minutes at a time
and slowly built up to 30 minutes every other day. He says cancer
patients make the mistake of not exercising because of the pain.
• Cathy B., as a young girl, was plagued by a swelling in the
lymph of her leg regularly once a month. The doctors tried everything
but it was not until by chance she discovered the rebounder and
her problem was solved. Her father had purchased the rebounder for
himself at work, but the boss didn’t like it there so he brought
it home. Cathy’s difficulty with her leg was embarrassing and
painful and she found herself alone alot. She started bouncing to
pass the time. Her affliction didn’t appear at its regular
time. The affects were confirmed when she went to grandma’s
for three weeks and didn’t have the rebounder. The swelling
came back with less severity and disappeared when she returned to
exercising.
• Peter Houck, president of Houck Industries, Inc., was introduced
to the rebounder and after using it regularly for a period of time,
was so pleased with the results that he decided to share his experience
with his employees. He asked the founder of reboundology, Al Carter,
to give a lecture demonstration to his whole work force. He purchased
52 rebounders in all. Mr. Houck had noticed many changes at his
workplace:”a marked reduction in stress reactions among his
employees. Production increased, people showed improved physical
capabilities, they had uplifted spirits, felt more at peace, required
fewer hours of sleep, generally looked healthier, acted more cheerfully
at the workplace, there was a reduction in absenteeism and pulse
rate and blood pressures of employees who were tested all reduced
in readings.” 11
Rebounding can serve the exercise needs of a wide range of people:
From children to the elderly to extremely fit individuals, or those
tied to a desk or struggling with ill health. Anyone can experience
a gentle return to health, a vigorous reclaiming of health and a
moderate sustaining of health with the rebounder. It usually takes
half the time exercising to maintain fitness as it took to regain
it. As a general rule, it takes 30 minutes of exercise three times
a week to maintain health and minimum of 30 minutes five times a
week to regain it.
Covert Bailey suggests the following exercises and length of exercise
per day for health:
Walking: 40 minutes,
Biking: 20 minutes,
Jogging: 15 minutes,
Nordic trak: 12 minutes.
The equivalent amount of time to receive the same health benefits
with the rebounder is 12 minutes per day, and includes all the benefits
of jogging and more without the wear and tear on the joints, plus
the full body muscles involvement of the Nordic trak, plus an effect
on every cell, because none of them can escape gravity.
At the pace of life today, some of us question which form of exercise
will be most beneficial, with the least expenditure of time and
inconvenience, yielding maximum results. You don’t need any
special clothing to rebound, no track, no place to go. Just slip
off you shoes or roll out of bed and start bouncing. With a lifetime
guarantee on the frame, you are set for a joyful and fun way to
keep your health as a lifetime friend.
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Proven Fat Loss:
Rebounding Burns More Calories Than Jogging
Rebound exercise is "The
most efficient, effective form of exercise yet devised by man."
That statement was made in 1977, and published in Rebound to Better
Health. Since then,
that statement has been challenged by some of the best scientists
in the world, and
endorsed by some of the best athletes. The results are always the
same. When the learned
take the time to understand the full implications of rebound exercise,
they say, "Yup, you are
right."
N.A.S.A. confirms it: "…for similar levels of heart rate
and oxygen consumption, the magnitude of the biomechanical stimuli
is greater with jumping on a trampoline than with running, a finding
that might help identify acceleration parameters needed for the
design of remedial procedures to avert deconditioning in persons
exposed to weightlessness."12
One happy rebounder writes:
"Seven years ago I was told by my doctor that I had lymphoma.
It was at that time I started rebounding. I have been rebounding
since then. I no longer have lymphoma, but I am not cured of rebounding.
Thank you for writing the books, The Miracles of Rebound Exercise
and The Cancer Answer."
How Rebound Exercise Accomplishes
Its Benefits
Scientific evidence suggests
that jumping rope for ten minutes is as effective in conditioning
the body as approximately thirty minutes of fast jogging. Rebounding
or jumping on a
miniature trampoline is similar to jumping rope except you don't
get the jarring effect to the
ankles, knees, and low back that you do from hitting the solid ground.
Rebounding is an anti-gravity vertical action similar to jumping
on a pogo stick, a diving
board, or bouncing on a bed. Using a rebound device is a simplified
and safer version of a
giant-size trampoline. 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. In 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.
Jumping's Oxygenating Effect
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 doublegravity
produce a pumping
action which pulls out waste products from the cells and forces
into them, oxygen and
nutrition from the bloodstream.
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. It's likely
that the vast amount of oxygen taken in by Dr. Samuel Kofsky over
a sustained period was
the true source of his cancer remission. Rebounding might be considered
a precursor
movement for better achieving the oxygen therapies.
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.
The 60-Second Bone Builder
Gentle health bouncing is great
for your heart and stimulating your lymphatic system. Now
here's how to boost the bone-building power of rebounding in just
1 minute. In the middle of
your rebounding workout simply perform a 60-second "Strength
Jump" (high bounce). This
will dramatically increase the G force and should be enough to signal
bones to add mass.
Why
Rebound?
1. It
increases the capacity for respiration.
2. It circulates more oxygen to the tissues.
3. It establishes a better equilibrium between the oxygen required
by the tissues and the
oxygen made available.
4. It causes muscles to perform work in moving fluids through the
body to lighten the
heart's load.
5. It tends to reduce the height to which the arterial pressures
rise during exertion.
6. It lessens the time during which blood pressure remains abnormal
after severe activity.
7. It holds off the incidence of cardiovascular disease.
8. It increases the functional activity of the red bone marrow in
the production of red blood
cells.
9. It aids lymphatic circulation, as well as the flow in the veins
of the circulatory system.
10. It encourages collateral circulation.
11. It strengthens the heart and other muscles in the body so that
they work more efficiently.
12. It allows the resting heart to beat less often.
13. It lowers elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
14. It stimulates the metabolism.
15. It promotes body growth and repair.
16. It tones up the glandular system, especially the thyroid to
increase its output.
17. It adds to the alkaline reserve of the body which may be of
significance in an emergency
requiring prolonged effort.
18. It chemically attains absolute potential of the cells.
19. It reserves bodily strength and physical efficiency.
20. It expands the body's capacity for fuel storage and endurance.
21. It improves coordination through the transmission of nerve impulses
and responsiveness
of the muscle fibers.
22. It affords muscular vigor from increased muscle fiber tone.
23. It offers relief from neck and back pains, headaches, and other
pain caused by lack of
exercise.
24. It enhances digestion and elimination processes.
25. It allows for better and easier relaxation and sleep.
26. It results in a better mental performance, with keener learning
processes.
27. It curtails fatigue and menstrual discomfort for women.
28. It minimizes the number of colds, allergies, digestive disturbances,
and abdominal
problems.
29. It tends to slow down aging.
30. It reduces the likelihood of obesity.
Activities
Evaluation Chart
Columns
2-4 show approximate calorie use per hour for each body weight
Point Scale for columns 5-8: 1 = Poor 3 = Good
5 = Excellent
| Activity |
114 lb. |
154 lb. |
194 lb. |
Endurance |
Flexibility |
Balance |
Safety |
| Rebound-sprint |
1260 |
1440 |
1710 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
| Rebound-strength |
870 |
1050 |
1230 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
| Jumping rope |
590 |
750 |
930 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
| Running |
590 |
750 |
930 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
| Rebound-jogging |
480 |
600 |
720 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
| Bicycling 10 mph |
360 |
420 |
480 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
| Walking outside |
300 |
360 |
420 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
As seen on network TV
As seen
on the Donnie and Marie Osmond Show, the Sally show and in Prevention
Magazine (March, 2000), Crunch Fitness, ("... one of the most
innovative gym chains in the nation." according to Cosmopolitan
(November, 1997) decided to bring Urban Rebounding™ into it's
gyms. With locations on the East Coast, California and Japan, Crunch
is gaining major media exposure.
Our Soft- Bounce Rebounders are the top quality available.
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This rebounder's
retail price is $249.95.
36 specially engineered 4" long tapered springs provide
a noticeably smoother bounce, compared to cheap, stock uniform-sized
springs used by other manufacturers. The mat material is Permatron
which does not stretch like cheaper nylon designs. The spring
loaded legs and folding frame allow for easy storage and portability.
Five year warranty on the mat and ten years on the hinges. A
carrying case for travel or storage is included with the folding
model. |
N.A.S.A. has stated this exercise
to be 68% more efficient than running. Rebounding on these soft-bounce
mini trampolines is 87% shock free. They feel much smoother than
cheap models found at retail stores. It strengthens all your muscles,
and even strengthens your immune system by increasing lymphatic
circulation in your body. This helps generate more white blood cells,
a key element of the immune system. Rebounding naturally improves
balance and it does not have the impact on your joints like jogging.
Great at nearly every age, the workout can be customized to your
physical condition. The exercise can be aerobic with movements designed
to strengthen specific muscle groups.
Endnotes:
1 Walker, Morton. Jumping for Health, 1989. p 80.
2 Walker, p 7.
3 Walker, p 22.
4 Walker, p 28.
5 Walker, p 30.
6 Walker, p 31.
7 Walker, p 31.
8 Walker, p 22
9 Walker, p 114.
10 Walker, p 7.
11 Walker, p 91.
12 N.A.S.A., Journal of Applied Physiology
49(5): 881-887, 1980
