Trampoline Tricks & Exercise CD

Trampoline Exercises Routine -  The most simple forms of trampoline exercise are dependent upon the size of your trampoline. A large outdoor trampoline is best enjoyed in the fresh air, with ten minutes of vigorous bouncing providing massive benefits to your mental and physical health. For indoors fun, why not get some great music going and twist, jump and dance on your rebounder ? Just like dancing, only bouncier!

More structured exercise routines include: Building up your exercise The important rule with exercise is to look after your body. Don't push yourself too far, too early: start off with a five or six minute exercise routine on your trampoline and gradually build.

Gentle warm up A gentle exercise you can do, either as a warm up to more strenuous exercise or in its own right, involves standing on the trampoline with your feet about shoulder-width apart. Gently, without lifting your heels or your toes from the trampoline, use the spring of the trampoline pad itself to move you up and down. This gentle exercise will not make you short of breath, and is not strenuous enough to make you sweat; but requires co-ordination and gentle muscle exertion. Continue for as long as you wish for maximum benefit.

Vertical Spring In this exercise, which provides general toning throughout your muscles and helps you to clean toxins from your lymphatic system, you literally spring up from the centre of the trampoline in one movement - lifting both feet from the trampoline at the same time each time you jump. This is a popular exercise with athletes due to its overall toning properties.

Vertical Spring Disco Like the 'up in one go' trampoline exercise - but with a twist. At the top of the jump, your body will for a split second hover motionless. This is the point at which you can introduce dance moves: twist, star, shape and boogie yourself to fitness to music. If you have a favorite dance or floor routine, introduce a new element with each of your favorite tunes. This will allow you to concentrate on body areas you most want to improve. But please don't push yourself so hard that it hurts.

Bouncing Jog In this exercise, you will literally jog on the spot. Standing on the centre of your trampoline or rebounder, start with a gentle warm up; gradually turn it into a vertical spring, and then start to jog. Lift up your knee as far as you can with each step, to really open up your lungs and cells to the increased oxygen intake this promotes. Keep this up for three minutes and then drop back to a Vertical Spring and wind down with the warm up.