Trampolines and other rebounders are a pretty commonplace sight in more households in the country. Trampolines have been around for the better part of a century, ever since circus acrobats were seen performing their aerial stunts and landing on the springy safety of their safety-nets.

Trampolines basically work on the mechanical power provided by an extending spring. These springs will store energy as potential elastic energy as they are stretched out and will then release the energy by snapping back into their neutral position and pulling back on the bouncing tarp that they are attached to.

Although the jumping surface of the modern trampoline isn’t springy enough to provide the jumper with any altitude it does have enough give to keep it from becoming disfigured or ruined during repeated bounces. All the energy supplied by the jumper is stored and released by the springs that attach the jumping surface to a necessarily solid steel frame.

Trampolining, or the act and sport of jumping on a trampoline, has become more than just a hobby for kids after school. In the year 2000 trampolining became an Olympic sport with rigid guidelines for its various aerial maneuvers.

If you want to have fun on your home trampoline you might want to try teaching yourself some tricks. You should do all of this with extreme caution since a miss-jump or a fall can lead to serious injury and potentially even death.

You might do well to have a more experienced jumper along to help you. As you try new tricks you will always be taking some kinds of risks but you can keep these risks to a minimum by not performing beyond your own abilities and by not showing off for members of the opposite sex.

One of the most basic maneuvers that will actually be well worth your time to learn is just a straight jump. Even if you have been jumping on a trampoline for years with your little brother it will still take a concentrated effort to get a straight, high jump without having your arms and legs flailing out during your flight.

Once you have this down you should work up to something of a routine in your jumping. All of your jumps should be evenly high and should be done in a controlled manner so that you land in as near as possible to the same place with every jump.

Different maneuvers that you can work into your routine are trucks, pikes and combinations of these moves with half turns or full turns. Even if these exercises seem lame it will probably take you a ridiculously long amount of time to be able to perform them one after the other with clean, straight bounces in-between.

When some people think about working out they assume you need a gym membership, some steroids a huge muscles. While some people do take this approach to working out, an active lifestyle or “working out” is fiddle to everyone health.   You can workout or be active at any age. Being active will make you feel younger by giving you more energy and keeping you more healthy longer in life. You could say that working out is the closest thing we have to the fountain of youth. Regular exercise has be proven to prevent serious health problems such as heart disease and diabetes.  The benefits of exercise doesn’t stop there. In fact all of the benefits of exercise are currently not known. What we do know is that it can boost your energy, mood,  strength, reduce arthritis pain, cut down on your stress, and help you get a good night sleep. Continue reading Never to Late to Start Working Out. →

Exercise has many great benefits to your body, and of course you want to be fit, but internally there are many things that happen to your body with regular exercise.  That being said, there are many different types of exercise equipment out there, but only one has benefits as great as a rebounder.

Rebounders are essentially mini-trampolines that can be used to exercise.  Rebounders offer a very unique type of exercise that not only allows you to achieve a low-impact, high-intensity workout, but also has a very beneficial effect on your lymphatic system, which affects your entire body.

Your lymphatic system is very important as it aids the immune system in destroying pathogens and filtering waste so that lymph can be safely returned to the circular system.  In short, it helps you stay healthier.

It removes excess fluid, waste, debris, dead blood cells, pathogens, cancer cells, and toxins from these cells and tissue places between them.  Essentially it helps keep your body toxin free and clean.

And finally the lymphatic system also works with the circulatory system to deliver nutrients, oxygen, and hormones from the blood to the cells that make up tissues of the body.  This is another important role that our lymphatic system plays in our health.

As you can see, the lymphatic system is a very busy and important system and it would be vitally important not only to learn about it, but also to maintain it.  Having a healthy lymphatic system can prevent a wide variety of different diseases and problems including arthritis, heart disease, and cancer.

It is important to realize that the lymphatic system is not circulation of the lymphatic system does not rely on an organ like the heart, but relies on the movement of our body to achieve its pumping motion.  Two of the most effective ways to increase lymphatic circulation are massage and vigorous exercise.

Rebounding is one way to generate lymphatic circulation.  The up and down bouncing movement of our body while we are rebounding is not only good, it is very effective in helping with the circulation of the lymphatic system as it causes all of the valves in that system to open and close simultaneously.  Rebounding can increase lymph flow by as much as fifteen times.

Rebounding is a highly beneficial way to exercise as it has so many benefits, aside from a rebounder be compact and easy to carry, it also provides an intense cardio workout and promotes circulation in your lymphatic system.  Rebounding is a great way to stay in shape and get healthy.

There are three necessary adjectives that will describe any successful change in one’s life. If you want to start blogging or if you want to start exercising, all you have to do is make sure that what you are doing is easy, rewarding and normal. To achieve a positive lifestyle change there is bit of work, but as long as you make it easy, rewarding, and normal you will benefit greatly from it. Let me explain.

Easy
Making your new action  easy is going to be the first step to actually accomplishing it. If you want to make or break a habit you have to make it easy on yourself. For me I make exercise easy by buying a gym membership and keeping workout cloths in my car all the time. I make blogging easy by setting aside an hour each day for it.

Rewarding
If something isn’t rewarding for you then you are not going to want to do it, even if it easy. Twilight isn’t rewarding for me and even though watching the movie would be a very easy thing for me to do, I still won’t because it is not in the slightest bit rewarding for me. Obviously there are health benefits to exercise. Running on a treadmill or elliptical is going burn calories, strengthen the heart, and make you stronger. Sometimes this isn’t rewarding enough, so you might have to give yourself some extra incentive. Blogging for me isn’t as rewarding as I would like it to be, so I create a reward for myself by stocking my desk with snacks–don’t worry they are healthy.

Normal
The key to any healthy change in life is consistency. Quitting smoking for a week doesn’t do a lot to prevent an early death. If you want to see the real benefits from quitting smoking you have to stay quit. Same with exercise or blogging or anything in life really. If you want to see the benefits of exercise you have to make it a normal part of your life. It doesn’t end when you reach your target weight or build, which is good because if it did life would be super boring. You have to maintain that physique. In smoking you have to maintain the discipline that helped you quit. And with blogging you have to maintain that resolve to express your thoughts, even if it is just to a number of SEO marketers trying to optimize your site.

Turns out accomplishing things isn’t that hard. The trick is to get it done. Allot yourself a small time frame, having an end point gives you motivation to keep running. You want to fix up your car, give yourself thirty days to do it. IF you want to make a website, give yourself thirty days. However, it doesn’t have to be an accomplishment of some kind.

Thirty days is just the right amount of time that it takes to make or break a habit. So if you want to become more fit, try to run for thirty days. Of course you don’t have to run non-stop that would probably kill you. Just do it in the mornings or at night.

Now watch this awesome video of Matt Cutts, the man who is single-handedly destroying all SEO operators, give a little talk on his thirty day challenges.

The best way to change your life is to put yourself in a position where you are uncomfortable.  Life isn’t mastered by anyone.  There are those who wouldn’t be able to stand for one second in an Olympic competition, and on the polar opposite of that there are those who are afraid to get up and speak in front of a crowed.  How to we become masters of our lives?  The trick is to learn to feed off resistance, to push ourselves into the deep end where the sharks swim, to call upon Darwin’s law of survival of the fittest, and to embrace the ‘fight or flight’ reaction to danger.

Resistance is the key to growth. Astronauts face a peculiar problem on extended journeys into space.  Because there is no gravitational resistance their muscles and bones start to deteriorate.  So they have to work in special equipment for up to 4 hours every day to keep their body functioning properly.  So the simple lesson take away resistance and the body starts to become weaker.  This is easily reversed, ad resistance and the body becomes stronger.  To ad resistance all you have to do is get outside of your comfort zone. Start running till you can feel your heart beating in your chest.  Like the old adage goes, No Pain No Gain.

There is nothing more dangerous than comfort. It can come in many forms and it always promote the same thing- lethargy.  “There is no need to move, to eat, to work, because I am comfortable.”  Of course rest is a necessity for the body, but when you become addicted to it then it becomes sloth.  All things in life can be addictive, comfort is no different.  In fact, it is one of the most addictive things on the earth.  The reason people smoke cigarettes despite the fact that it takes minutes off their life with each drag, is because they feel comfortable doing it.  Without it they feel uncomfortable, and it is terribly hard to wade through the uncomfortable withdrawal process.

Withdrawal from the sedentary lifestyle you live and start doing something that makes you feel uncomfortable.  You will absolutely thank yourself later.

Now watch this guy.

Rebounding is a great way to add a new dimension to your workouts without completely restructuring your exercise regimen. Rebounders are effective if they are used correctly and they will be a great supplement to any other exercise regimen.

Rebounders are sometimes even used exclusively by individuals who are unable to expand their workout regimen because of a lack of time, money or know-how. Although an exerciser could conceivably obtain a well-rounded workout from a treadmill, this method is not recommended since the individual would likely get burnt out with the monotony after a while.

The best way to use a rebounder is to get the benefits from it that you can’t get anywhere else. For example, using a rebounder for your aerobic exercises is great, but you could just as easily run outdoors for a while and then use your treadmill to give your lymphatic system the boost that your running couldn’t do.

To determine how you will use your rebounder in your workouts, here is a list of some of the health and fitness benefits that rebounding can offer you. Keep in mind that there are also many other exercise regimens that will offer you these same benefits without requiring you to limit yourself to just a rebounder.

As stated, rebounding can be a good aerobic and cardiovascular workout. You can get these benefits on virtually any rebounder regardless of model or type and without the inclusion of a jump bar.

To get and aerobic workout on a rebounder you will need to jump continuously for at least 10 or so minutes. This length will get your aerobic metabolism burning fat and helping out your heart and lungs, but you will need to do these exercises several times each week.

Rebounding can also be a good strengthening exerciser for certain muscle groups. Using a rebounder to exercise your legs might seem like a good idea but you would have to put a lot of effort into jumping high for a long time to get a solid workout.

If you are going to use a rebounder for strengthening your muscle groups try getting a good jump off of the rebounder and then performing a second jump immediately after landing on the floor. Another idea is to bounce on your rear end while using your arms for momentum.

Besides these benefits, you can get an amazing lymphatic workout by rebounding only for a few minutes. Since there are very few other exercises that offer the same benefits to your lymphatic system as rebounding this will probably be the most beneficial supplement to any regimen.

If you didn’t know before after reading this blog I hope you understand how bad soda is for you.  Soda is a highly addictive substance. Caffeine in soda and other ingredients when consumed over a period of time can become something a person’s body craves. This is the reason we keep buying expensive sodas. This is why we should quit drinking soda today. Remember your body needs to eat, sleep and exercise but if you quit drinking soda you will see results.

Save money and stop drinking soda.

These days anyone can use a few extra bucks in our pockets. Here are  three financial reasons to quit drinking soda.

1. Soda is expensive; drinking drinking it adds up.

The average American drinks 216 liters (that’s 7304 ounces, or about 365 20-ounce bottles) a year. If you purchased your soda only at a vending machine, that’s about $550/ year. If, instead, you put this into a retirement account for 30 years at a 7% interest rate compounded annually, you’d have about $60,000.

2. You’ll save money on health care.

One of the most important things each person has is his or her health. When you get sick or hurt you have to see the doctor. If you have done this lately you know it’s not cheap at all. By losing weight and getting in better shape you will decrease the likely hood of you going to the doctor and having other health concerns.

3. Use soda money to buy more healthy food. 

If you have ever seen Food.INC of any other food documentary you understand the importance of buying good healthy food. If you have ever bought organic or locally grown food you understand that this food is pricey. Stop drinking soda and put the extra money towards food that will help you stay in better shape.

Drinking soda is bad for your health.

4. Soda increases your heart rate and blood pressure.

Soda consumption has be linked to higher heart rates and higher blood pressure. This is because the caffeine in the soda speeds up your heart and the sugar in the soda mixed with all of the other chemicals really hurts your body. Stop drinking soda and watch how much energy your body naturally produces.

5. Soda is really hard on your teeth.

Sugar and the acidity in soda is so hard on your teeth. You teeth will become stained if you drink lots of dark soda. Even clear sodas will hurt your teeth because they are so packed with sugar.

6. Stop drinking soda to lose weight.

Soda is packed with calories. So much in fact that one soda could makeup more than 20% of your total calorie intake in a single day. If you cut the soda out and eat the same you will take in less calories thus helping you lose weight. Mix in more healthy eating and some exercise and you will see results in as little as one week.

7. Soda is the lead cause of diabetes.

The fact is that regular soft drinks contribute to type 2 diabetes. Even if you drink those diet drinks you could still be at risk.

8. Drinking soda increases your risk of getting kidney stones.

Drinking 2 or more sodas per day is associated with increased risk of chronic kidney stones. There is so much sugar in soda that it is in most cases directly responsible for kidney stones.

9. Heartburn is contributed to soda drinking.

With all of the carbonation in soda a lot of people get get heartburn after drinking it.

10. It’s linked with liver problems.

People with liver problems are being linked to drinking a lot of soda. While most of us know beer and alcohol are bad for your liver it is no surprise that soda would be as well.

While it maybe difficult you should really try to make the change in your life and stop drinking soda. Water is the best thing you can drink. 8 glasses of water per day will keep your body perfectly hydrated. If you really don’t like drinking a lot of water you can try a number of other things. Try to drink coffee or tea if you need to whine yourself off of soda. The caffeine in these will help with headaches and withdraw. Other great drinks would have to be homemade lemonade or ice tea. Also there are packages of flavoring that you can put in your water to give it some flavor. If you really can’t stop drinking soda remember that portions can be the key. Drink less soda.