Club Rebound Aerobics

Rebound Aerobics is back. As one article put it, "Burt Reynolds is hot again. So too are cardigan sets. So it shouldn’t be entirely surprising that the fitness fad known as rebounding appears to be making a rebound itself." San Francisco The Daily Herald April 4, 1999. Since 1999 rebounding has enjoyed the same notoriety that it enjoyed in the '80s. Now in 2005 it is more popular than ever with classes offered in gyms in the US and worldwide.

What makes Rebound Aerobics so popular in the health club setting?

Rebound Aerobics has a universal appeal that crosses age and gender lines that normally divide people in the activites they participate in for fitness. It is low impact but it is challenging and there is a lot of variety.

The choreography has a lot of diversity and as more and more aerobic instructors start experimenting with the limits of Rebound Aerobics we are going to see a lot of fun and jazzy choreography in Rebound Aerobics classes. This is a very easy program to add for health clubs. There are no special rooms to build. There isn’t a clinic that instructors have to attend every 3 months to stay certified. It is low cost. So even smaller clubs are jumping on the band wagon.

The Top Five Reasons to use the ReboundAIR in Health Clubs

Reason #1 Exercise on a ReboundAIR is safe and effective.

"The findings indicate that exercise on a miniature trampoline may provide a safe, adequate indoor exercise for normal and many cardiac patients of varied ages, if guidelines concerning rate of stepping and height of knee lifts are adhered to."

Journal of Medical Science for Sport and Exercise, 1980; 12:118

Reason #2 Aerobic exercise on the ReboundAIR increases a person’s tolerance to high impact exercise.

"The minitrampoline [rebounder] provides a convenient form of exercise with a major advantage being its apparent low level of trauma to the musculoskeletal system."

Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, 1990: 10; 401-408

Reason #3 Rebounding is a very effective exercise in increasing cardio strength and weight resistance without the dangers inherent to high impact cardio exercises.

Alan Mikesky, director of the Human Performance Biomechanics Laboratory at Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis says about rebound exercise, " It seems to be efficient at improving one’s cardio and weight resistance, and decreasing the impact on the joints. So overall it’s a safe alternative mode of exercise." He goes on to suggest that rebounding placed in a group setting like a health club may make it the next Tae-BO, much like how spinning popularized stationary bike riding.

Reason #4 The powerful combination of circuit weight training while performing aerobic rest intervals on the ReboundAIR results in an increased aerobic endurance and fat reduction over circuit training with rest intervals.

"This study examines the aerobic benefits of regular circuit weight training and how it compares to a Super Circuit which incorporates running instead of rest intervals between each circuit station."

"30 seconds of running between exercise stations, dramatically improved aerobic endurance (17.0%), reduced body fat percentages 10.9% to 17.1% in 12 weeks, and increased strength up to 26.0% in that same period."

"Almost any aerobic devise should do: treadmills, exercise bikes, indoor joggers [rebounders], even running in place or skipping rope."

Illustration of Super Circuit:

Super Circuit layout incorporates the use of suitable aerobic exercise equipment, such as the indoor jogger, placed in adjacent positions. The exercise stations are arranged in a sequence in which upper and lower body muscle groups are conditioned alternately. Aerobic intervals are used instead of rest intervals between strength stations.

L. Gettman, Ph.D., Research Director, Dr. P. Ward and Dr. R.D. Hagan, Institute for Aerobics Research, Universal Gym, Inc.

Reason #5 Rebound exercise is an intelligent first step for the overweight and sedentary.

Changes following ten weeks of exercise using a minitrampoline in overweight women

Abstract from the Journal of Medical Science in Sports and Exercise 1980:12:103 J.R. White, Human Performance Lab, University of California, San Diego

Recently, rebounding on a miniature trampoline has become popular for exercise. The purpose was to determine if rebounding would be as effective in improving fitness and reducing body fat as running or stationary bicycling. 60 overweight women exercised 10 weeks using either treadmill running, stationary bicycling or rebounding. They met 4 days/week and used 10 minute warm-up, 30 minute exercise (HR 150-beats/min), and 10 minute cool-down. Ten overweight women were controls. Max VO2 and skin folds were measured before and after 10 weeks.

For those using treadmill, max VO2 increased from 31.3+/-4.8 to 35.5+/-4.4 ml/kg/min; percent body fat decreased from 31.3+/-4.8 to 26.4+/-4.4. Stationary bicyclists increased max VO2 from 30.5+/-4.6 to 33.8+/-4.2 ml/kg/min; percent body fat decreased from 30.9+/-5.2 to 28.3+/-4.5.

The rebounders increased max VO2 from 30.4+/-4.8 to 33.9+/-3.3 ml/kg/min; percent body fat decreased from 31.2+/-4.3 to 27.2+/-4.1. Control data did not change.

These study results demonstrate that exercise on a miniature trampoline is not significantly different from treadmill running or stationary bicycling in increasing fitness and decreasing body fat in overweight women.

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