A Pilates Rebounder Comes With Many Exercises

A Pilates rebounder is basically a rebounder attached to one end of a a Pilate Reformer or Performer.

It can be used as a regular cardio rebounder, or pushed up to provide a bounce while you're lying flat on the carriage.

The Pilates Rebounder is an Attachment

The Pilates Reformer is the most famous piece of Pilates exercise equipment. It's shaped much like a bed, as the first ones actually were.

It's rectangular in shape. About seven to over eight feet long and two feet wide, and set on solid legs.

It has a padded carriage with rollers set inside grooves in the frame so the carriage can easily slide back and forth. You make it do so through a system of ropes, springs and pulleys.

The Pilates Performer is basically a smaller, home version of the Reformer that can sit on your floor and fold up for easy storage between exercise sessions.

You can lie, sit and stand on the carriage or various parts of the machine and use the ropes and pulleys to stretch and extend your body in a wide variety of ways. Pilates created over 100 exercises and workouts for the Reformer.

You develop balance, coordination and body-space awareness while strengthening and stretching your entire body.

Pilates master instructor Romana Kryzanowska, a student of Joseph Pilates, added the Jumpboard after his death. That increases the explosive power. However, they're made of wood.

Adding the rebounder at the end is but one more variation on this versatile machine. You move yourself, and the bounce against the rebounder provides a healthy jolt without stressing your joints as, for example, running does.

And of course, there's another great benefit. You can get the benefit of rebounding even inside during bad weather even if the ceilings of your home, basement or apartment are too low for a regular rebounder.

Makes and models include: Stamina AeroPilates Pro XP 557 Home Pilates Reformer with Free-Form Cardio Rebounder, AeroPilates Premier with Cardio Rebounder, AeroPilates® Free-Form Cardio Rebounder, Stamina AeroPilates 296 Performer, Aero Pilates Cardio Rebounder, Stamina Aero Pilates Pro XP556 Model 55-5556, and Stamina AeroPilates® Pro XP 686.

Many of these come with DVDs to show you the exercises you can perform on them.

Many People Have Begun Using Pilates Rebounders for Jumping Up and Down Exercise

Many people are now using rebounders or mini-trampolines for their cardiovascular exercise. In addition to being easier on your joints than running, by moving you from weightlessness (at the top of the jump) to high gravity (two to three times 1 gee when you hit the bottom) many times a minute, it stimulates your lymph system which is vital to your body's ability to fight off disease. It affects all the cells of your body.

Your lymph system is a second circulatory system in your body. Your lymph fluid moves through channels or vessels that are filled with one-way valves to keep it moving in one direction only. The main lymph vessels run vertically, up through your legs, arms and trunk. That why the up and down movement of rebounding is so effective at increasing the flow of lymph fluid.

Unlike your blood's circulatory system, it doesn't have a heart to pump it through. It depends on movement. When you're a constant couch potato, you can't properly detoxify.

Probably the only time you think about your lymph system is when you're sick. Then you check your lymph glands on the sides of your neck into your throat. Chances are they're swollen. That's your lymph system fighting the infection. However, if you keep your lymph system flowing well, you increase your chances of beating any infection from bacteria or virus before you feel sick. Vigorous exercise such as rebounding increses lymph flow by fifteen to thirty times.

Your lymph system is also responsible for cleaning out and getting rid of toxins such as dead and cancerous cells, nitrogenous wastes, fat, heavy metals, and other metabolic waste generated by your cells.

All exercise affects you basically by applying stress or resistance that your body has to adapt to, thereby forcing it to increase its own strength. But this applies only to muscles.

Because the constant, quick change in gravitational force affects your entire body, you're applying the force to your entire body, including all the cells in it.

You don't have to bounce in a standing position, either -- you can bounce sitting down, including from cheek to cheek. In fact, you can do a huge amount of different exercises with it, not just bounce up and down. Yoga, martial arts, Pilates, intense cardio fitness, and many others. Sit, stand, bounce on your hands and so on.

Since on impact you hit a flexible, giving surface, the force does not jar your joints.

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Use the Pilates Rebounder Safely

The motion of rebounding stimulates all your internal organs. It forces your celebral-spinal fluid to move. And it's good for your intestines.

You also help the transport of immune cells such as T-lymphocytes and macrophages through amebic action. These cells contain molecules which are identical to the cells in your muscle. Therefore, all cells in your body become stronger. And those immune cells become five times more active, protecting your from infectious organisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and cancer cells.

Although it may seem illogical because rebounding is so easy -- did I mention FUN -- that you may not think it's also an effective cardio-vascular activity. It gets your heart rate going, improving your endurance. It burns calories and speeds up your metabolism so you keep burning more calories for hours after you stop rebounding. Therefore, it helps you lose weight especially if used in conjunction with a healthy diet.

It increases the circulation of your blood as well as your lymph fluid, going through capillaries to deliver fresh oxygen from all cells of your body and take away metabolic wastes.

It's invigorating. Can you remember the fun of jumping on a bed when you were a child? Or a trampoline? It's invigorating, and a perfect antidote to stress and emotional problems such as depression.

Subjecting your body to the increased gravitational force strengthens your muscular and skeletal system without putting lots of strain and impact force on your joints.

Some claim that rebounding increases the activity of your red bone marrow producing red blood cells and that it lowers circulating levels in your blood of cholesterol and triglycerides.

So there's little doubt that a Pilates rebounder can improve and enhance the rest of your exercise and fitness routines.