How to Use a Mini Trampoline Exercises

May 20, 2011 | Author: Caitlin Dashion | Posted in Health & Fitness

People are always looking for the latest way to get in shape. Many people pay expensive monthly fees in order to join their local gyms, spending their time on treadmills or elliptical machines in the hopes of losing a few pounds from their waistline. For others, they find themselves chasing the latest fad or exercise program seen on an infomercial, thinking it will be the thing that will finally help them get healthy.

However, despite all the machines and programs around, all people need to get fit is a straightforward mini trampoline. A mini trampoline allows exercisers to complete everything necessary to get into good cardiovascular shape while toning themselves at the same time.

Certainly, as a way to reap the benefits of a mini trampoline, an individual is required to be able to use it correctly. Unfortunately, many mini trampoline owners are not aware of the correct exercises that will permit themselves to best use the apparatus. But with just a couple of exercises, a mini trampoline could be the ticket to a healthier body along with a healthier lifestyle.

Many trampoline exercises often imitate other types of movements while using the benefits associated with the mini trampoline to reduce the strain and impact of the exercises. Perhaps, the most popular exercises may be the simple jumping jack. To make this happen, simply begin with putting your feet together and your hands at your sides. Then, jump up while moving your feet apart and raise both hands above your head in a circular motion. After you land, jump up again and go back to the first starting position.

Another popular exercise on the mini trampoline is the cross trainer, designed to imitate cross country skiing machines. For this exercise, raise your hands in front of you while keeping your legs together. When you jump up, move one leg in front of you and the other leg behind you. While you are doing this, move one arm in towards your body while fully extending the other arm in front of you. And when you jump up again, reverse this process. The whole idea, of course, is to replicate the motion of a cross country skier.

Not surprisingly, x-country skiing isn’t the only movement you may replicate on the trampoline. Another popular movement is actually sprinting with the mini trampoline. The real key is to truly pump your legs and arms at the earliest opportunity to get the full aerobic benefit. Also, if you’re able to, try to get those legs as high possible to make the exercise far more intense.

One thing many trampoline owners fail to appreciate is the fact that knowing how to exercise is just as important as knowing what exercises to do. The key to any cardiovascular exercise program is to sustain an increased heart rate over a period of time. This is done by sustaining an exercise for a period of time long enough to get the heart rate up. As well, it is very important to limit the amount of rest time between exercises. If you let your heart rate fall all the way down to its typical condition at rest, you will lose a lot of the benefit from the sustained exercise.

With these simple rules in place, the above mini trampoline exercises will get anyone in great shape in no time.

Rob Twain is a martial artist and a chef. In his spare time he enjoys exercising on his mini trampoline. Click here for cheap trampolines for sale.

Author: Caitlin Dashion

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