The benefits of Rebounding for Personal Trainers, Strength and Conditioning Coaches and their clients by James Winfield MSc

The researched benefits and many health efficacies that can be gained from rebounding are unprecedented. To understand how and why these are achieved from what looks like ‘bouncing around and having fun’ on a mini trampoline you need to understand the mechanics involved and forces created whilst Rebounding.
There are three natural forces involved; gravity, acceleration and deceleration. The purpose of rebounding is to line up acceleration and deceleration with gravity on the vertical plane, creating G-Force. The increase in G-Force created whilst using the proper technique on one of our urban rebounders can give you some incredible benefits. Every cell in the body feels the G-Force and an increase in pressure created whilst rebounding and this forces the cells to respond to being placed in this environment causing them to adapt and become stronger.
At the top of the bounce or jump you are weightless (the cells are floating with no additional pressure), at the bottom of the bounce or push, your exercising body weight can become up to 3 times heavier (depending on how hard you push) which puts the body under extra physiological stress. (the good type of stress!) We all know that the Heavier our exercising body weight = the more calories we burn! For example Imagine you are in the gym on the bike or the cross trainer and you accidently entered in to the machine your body weight 3 times heavier than you actually weigh. At the end of a 30 min workout the display would give you a tremendous calorie burn due to you being heavier. Well that's exactly what happens when you rebound! Your exercising body weight becomes heavier whilst you are rebounding so you burn many more calories than doing other forms of exercise. Its brilliant! Research shows that an average 140lb female will burn approximately 405 calories in a 40 min Urban Rebounding session on a quality well sprung rebounder.
This pressure change explains how rebounding creates the most incredible lymphatic drainage. At the top of your jump the lymph valves open, so lymph flows through freely, at the bottom of the push the lymph valves close creating a pump effect. Yes breathing and movement move lymph around the body, but not like rebounding. This brings me to how this incredible drainage of the lymph system will improve athletic performance and improved conditioning with your clients and sporting individuals.
If you use the rebounder as part of a circuit class and as a cool down programme, lactic and toxins that build up from your strength training session will be dissipated through the lymphatic flush, providing quicker recovery times, less DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness). Not to mention the less toxic we are the more fat we metabolise.
Of course there are there are the obvious benefits that we will achieve from exercising on an unstable surface and constantly changing base of support like increasing balance and coordination, increasing joint integrity and stability and increasing neurological reserve.
Apparently according to our instructors ‘rebounding is a great hangover cure’!
 

Ref ; Al Carter - The miracles of rebounding and James Newman Winfield – Rebounding for Personal Trainers 2008