Why Rebounding is One of My Favorite Forms of Cardio as a Busy Homeschool Mom | Rebounding Q+A

[Music] hey everybody Welcome to the W way I'm Jessica today's video is going to be why rebounding is one of my favorite exercises as a busy homeschool mom now I don't know about you but as a busy homeschool mom time is a precious commodity there's never enough of it so when I started my fitness and health journey I kind of knew that I need needed to do things that had a large return on my investment of time it is one of the reasons why the first thing that I started doing was strength training because I knew that like as far as Investments went the time that I was putting in was going to be muscles being built and the more muscles that I built the more calories my body would burn at rest that seemed like a really good return on the time that I was investing in it so a few months into my journey when I decided that it was time to add cardio into the mix I knew that while walking is a great form of cardio and I'm not dissing it because I still walk quite frequently I wanted something that had a little bit more of return so the first thing I tried was running first of all I don't like it I really don't like it like they talk about runner's high I never found it and second of all I have bad knees or at least a bad knee um I have bad knes in general because my body carried 100 pounds more than it should have been carrying 100 plus pounds more than it should have been carrying for a very long long time but also when I was 14 um I had an accident and I needed knee surgery and I rehabbed it but let's just say I was a teenager and there was a lot better things to do and so well now in my mid to late 30s I wish I had done things a little bit differently but I didn't and thus here we are and running was not an option so I started researching other forms of cardio like what other cardio can I do besides walking that was going to feel like a huge return of my investment and as stumbled Upon A study now I'm going to read you the study word for word so that I don't get it wrong it was a NASA study that was conducted in 1980 and it was about rebounding the findings were that it was more effective than running it was 68 more 68% more effective than jogging and it 10 minutes of rebounding provided the same cardiovascular benefits as 30 minutes of running um it was less stressful on the body which obviously I was like yes please and it burned m burned more calories so 10 minutes of rebounding burns more calories than 30 minutes of running that's what their study said I have not actually done any kind of comparison for myself because I don't believe like the fitness watches when they tell you how many calories you're burning anyway but I was like okay I can't run because it's too hard on my knees and well I don't enjoy it and this says that rebounding is supposedly even more effective than running anyway plus it's low impact so sign me up that felt like a pretty good return on investment so I bought a rebounder and I started rebounding I also realized that I actually really enjoy it like it's fun and I have a blast doing it I turn up some music typically it's very an appropriate music that I wouldn't normally listen to with Emily around I go outside in the yard so that I can get some sign rebound flail around like a crazy person listen to inappropriate teenage angst music that I listen to when I was in high school um and nine times out of 10 it totally changes my mood like Kevin and Emily even joke if I wake up on the wrong side of the bed they're like you going to rebound today cuz I can go rebound and come back in a totally different mood so that was amazing because I can do it outside and get vitamin D and outside time I can do it for 10 minutes and get the equivalent cardiovascular workout as running for 30 um and it makes my mood so much better like it seemed like there was no loose situ ation so that is kind of how I got started in rebounding and I love it I absolutely really do love it I do think it is an amazing cardiovascular workout um it does make me happy I don't know about if I would say that it's equivalent uh 2 30 minutes of running probably it doesn't feel as hard for me because it's not as physically painful on my knees so I can't really compare the two but I would say um heart rate wise like if my watch is correct then that part is true um it can seriously get my heart rate up I would say I average I'm 37 years old almost 38 in case you want to do the math and I average anywhere from 130 to about 160 um on the rebounder depending on how high intensity the moves that I'm doing are uh so it definitely is a good cardiovascular workout I am going to answer some questions because I asked you guys if you had any and y'all came through with some really good ones uh the first one was what rebounder do you have I started with a rebounder that was less than $100 from Amazon I will link it in the description I didn't hate it um I just after rebounding for a while was ready to upgrade so I passed that rebounder on to somebody else um and upgraded to what I have now which is a Leaps and Bounds I will link this too and I have the bigger there's I think a 30 something inch and then like a 40 or 42 inch I have the bigger one uh mainly because I like a little bit more room I mean if you have the room for it in your house or your yard or wherever you're going to store your rebounder I say go bigger you're not going to regret having more room but you could potentially regret having less okay is there a difference between a rebounder and a trampoline yes a rebounder is not Springs so a trampoline like your standard um mini trampolines or kid trampoline like in your backyard like the ones your kids bounce on is going to have like metal Springs a rebounder has bungees which is part of what makes it lower impact so if you have a trampoline that has Springs and you're like this is hurting my knees that's why one that has a bungee is a lot lower impact um and so that's what you want to look for like if you go look on Amazon or wherever you want to look for a trampoline or rebounder you can search either but you want it to have bungees instead of those metal Springs what do you do on a rebounder is it really just jumping or are there moves um so it could be either I mean just jumping is not bad but there are like some moves and there is a safe way to be on the rebounder like you know you need to brace your core and you need to have soft knees um Earth and ow is a YouTube channel I will link her in the description um she is one of my favorites that is where I learned most of like the basic moves um some lower impact moves and some higher like intensity moves once I learned some safe moves and what she calls the health bounce which is what I started with I just did the health bounce for probably 3 months maybe even longer than that um the heal and the health balance is like you're going to look at it and be like this is it it's literally just kind of like digging your heels into the rebounder and kind of like bouncing your the toe of your foot never leaves like you're just kind of like bouncing on your heel I just did that for 3 months because that's how long it took me to go from being able to do 2 minutes on the rebounder to 30 minutes it took me 3 months of just being able to go to 30 minutes with just that small bounce like it is or at least it was for me it was really difficult but keep in mind I started rebounding almost three years ago so I was at the least 80 lbs overweight like and I'm being extremely kind when I say that um so I do suggest like I said check her out kind of learn some moves I mean it's not like bouncing up in the air because if you think about a normal like traditional trampoline your your goal is to jump higher like the higher you get the better with a rebounder your goal is actually to stay lower like the you don't want like air right like you want your balce to be controlled and like a little bounce if that makes sense so you want that self Bend in your knees and you kind of want to learn like the best way to do it or else you obviously can injure yourself like with any exercise favorite rebounding videos Earth and L hands down is my favorite she has a YouTube channel full of so many different things um her grandmother I think it's her grandmother comes over and rebounds with her and she's like I don't know in her 70s um she has friends that rebound with her that are very overweight her husband rebounds with her sometimes so like there is a video for everybody she does ones that are just music she does ones where she talks there are different themes like there's something for everybody there no matter where you're starting at or what you're looking to get out of it I promise she's got you covered she also has a subscription too I've only ever just in the YouTube videos at least to date does it hurt your back or knees no if you're doing it properly and youve you know keep that soft bin in your knees it has never bothered my back or my knees at all like in fact if I'm really really sore after a leg day rebounding I mean obviously bouncing helps you know release the lactic acid but it actually will help my knee like if my knee is really really stiff I feel like it helps way more than it could potentially hurt it how often do you rebound I rebound a approximately one to two times a week I try to get at least um like three cardio sessions if you will um a week in sometimes that just looks like walking depending on what my week looks like um but typically I choose to rebound one to two times a week and then the next question is how long do I rebound for now I rebound for anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes but that's something I worked up to when I first started I literally can do no more than two minutes and so I did two and then the next time I tried for two and a half and then the next time I tried for three and I did that for three months until I got to 30 minutes and I got to 30 minutes of just the health balce um now when I rebound what I personally like to do now that I've kind of learned the moves I don't watch the videos anymore like I said I turn my music on and I alternate between kind of a lower intensity and a higher intensity move that are similar um so let's say for for example I'm listening to a song when the chorus of that song comes on I will do a higher intensity move and when the chorus goes off I will switch to a lower intensity move and I do that for the whole song and then when the next song comes on normally I will switch to a different move whatever I'm in the mood for whatever feels good sometimes I just go out there and bounce looking like a fool because it makes me happy and it changes my mood and it's moving my body and so who cares uh so there's that are there like other benefits to rebounding outside of you know obvious the obvious ones and there are which is another reason why this was one of the things that I picked for cardio because it's an amazing cardiovascular workout but then there was so many other things that I was getting out of it too um so cardiovascular health rebounding can strengthen your heart lower your resting heart rate and improve your cholesterol and triglycerol levels uh it's a weightbearing exercise so it helps prevent bone loss and fractures and it can also improve bone density and strength that was huge for me uh rebounding on unstable surface basically a rebounder challenges your sense of balance and improves your coordination and motor skills as well as your core strength um I actually don't do any other core workouts typically because rebounding requires so much core um because of the balance your mental health obviously it reduces Stress and Anxiety uh lymphatic system rebounding can increase lymphatic fluid circulation which can help flesh out toxins and fight disease that was another big one for me I was like yes sign me up for that please um and then pelvic floor Health rebounding seriously strengthens your pelvic floor in your bladder which is another thing that I really wanted I was actually looking at incorporating pelvic floor and core into my strength training routine when I found out more about rebounding um and I started rebounding and realized that I get enough core and pelvic floor um work while rebounding that I didn't need to add that into Str training so that was kind of perfect because again time is a commodity I don't have a lot of so the more that I can get out of it so I was like okay rebounding is a great cardiovascular it's also strengthening my core and my pelvic floor it's great for my lymphatic system you know great for anxiety and stress which every exercise is great for that like it was the win all the way around and rebounding helps your muscles recover quickly because of the way you're moving um which was another win for me I'm already strength training and so this is helping me recover before I started rebounding purposefully um I was having to foam roll specifically after leg day like I would do a leg day and I would have to foam roll the next day cuz I would be so sore so now I try to schedule or if possible I don't really schedule but I try to do rebounding after a leg day because then I'm getting cardio in and I don't have to foam roll because it kind of works out that lactic acid for me so it's another one of those win-win if you have any other rebounding questions you can leave them in the comments and I will do my best to answer them um obviously I'm not a professional so I can only answer from my personal experience or the research that I have done but I will be happy to try if you are a rebounder or you enjoy rebounding I would love it if you would tell me in the comments if you have some favorite moves or some favorite people that you watch Earth and ow is the only one I've ever really watched because I never sought out anybody else so if there are any others that I need to check out please let me know he [Music]