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Even ACTIVE couch potatoes risk heart problems

QiBounding — 2010-07-19T10:08:30-07:00

It is well known that people who sit a lot and have no active lifestyle risk to get heart problems. But newest scientific studies showed that even those of us who have an active life style provoke a higher risk of heart diseases, if they expose themselves to periods of prolonged sitting during the day.

The study published in May in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise concludes that men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in their cars had a 64 % greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for eleven hours a week or less. This result was to nobody�s surprise. But astonishing was the fact that most of those men let an active lifestyle, i.e. exercised once a day. (They are called �Active couch potatoes�).

What is the remedy to this problem?

If you have to sit many hours per day, you are not doomed to end up with a heart disease. What you need to do is to break up your sitting by short periods of exercises during the day. We recommend to have your mini trampoline or rebounder in your office and just bounce 10 � 20 times. This invigorates your body, and clears your mind. Instead of smoking a cigarette or taking a coffee (or even during the time until your coffee is ready) just bounce on a quality Rebounder. Watch the following video where we show you how we use Rebounding to help us stay healthy and active:

http://rebounding.tv/movement-yes-but-how-often/

RE: Therabands

QiBounding — 2010-05-31T10:23:04-07:00

Hi Teeli,
Thank you for your message. I just found it now. Yes, New Zealand does not have its own Bellicon importer. I ship quite often Bellicons to New Zealand and Australia. But of course the shipping price is very high.

Concerning Therabands: I am sure you can get them. They are sold in sports good stores. Often they are not long enough. But you can buy two and knot them together.

I am happy to hear that you like the Videos on www.Reboudning.TV. Good to know that people from so far away can enjoy them.
If you give me your email address, I can send you my newsletter.

Have a good time and bounce in good health!
Sylvia
QiBounding Inc
Serving your BEING being WELL

Goal setting make easy

QiBounding — 2010-05-31T10:15:57-07:00

Do you have goals which are dear to you? Then this article can help you to reach them . There are three things to start with:

1. Know yourself

2. Balanced goals for a balanced life

3. Set SMART goals in present tense

Therabands

Teeli — 2010-05-27T22:51:39-07:00

Hi there! I live in New Zealand and I have just found you!Wonderful things to learn! Unfortunately we don't have the Bellicon rebounders here, so I have a spring one, but one of the better brands.Not a cheapie!But, oh..I LUST after one of those fabulous bunjee cord rebounders! *drool, sigh*

I had a bar on my rebounder, and since reading about the theraband, I have dismantled the bar- it's truly magic without it, yet I still have stability.

OK< so we don't have therabands here, either, but I improvised with an exercise bunjee cord with a handle each end..it works beaut!

I have already done so much more on my rebounder after reading and watching the videos on this site, that i am amazed at how little I DID know, before. Thank you so much! I have this site link pasted firmly on my desktop now! ( along with the Big Ben chiming clock! lolol)....Teeli

Are we REALLY so different?

QiBounding — 2010-05-22T09:23:54-07:00

Have you ever thought about how our Western society thinks and acts compared to the Eastern World? With simple pictograms, the Chinese artist Liu Young, who had lived and studied in Germany, shows the most striking differences in our behavior structure.

Below are two examples. TO SEE ALL OF THEM CLICK HERE.

Beware of Shopping Receipts

QiBounding — 2010-05-08T13:56:43-07:00

Shoppers need to be wary of receipts that come on thermal imaging paper, the kind of coated paper that faxes used to arrive on and some cash registers still routinely spit out. Many of these types of receipts are laced with bisphenol A (BPA), the strogen-mimicking chemical present in many hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s. The amount the receipts carry isn't trivial.

"When people talk about polycarbonate bottles, they talk about nanogram quantities of BPA (leaching out), " says John C. Warner, co-founder of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Industry. "The average cash register receipts that uses the BPA technology will have 60 to 100 milligrams of free BPA." This means it's hon bound int a polymer, as in polycarbonates, he explains, but is just loos molecules ready for uptake.

In Warner's opinion, when it comes to BPA in the urban environment, "the biggest exposure will be these cash register receipts." Once on the fingers, BPA can be transferred to foods. A 21010 Food and Drug Administration update supports U.S. industry's actions to stop producing BPA-containing baby bottles and feeding cups and to find alternatives for infant formula cans.

The best bet for now is to minimize acceptance of such receipts, keep them out of kids' hands and wash hands after touching one. Store them in a separate, zipped plastic bag away from the kitchen and not in a wallet.

RE: Toning

QiBounding — 2010-02-17T10:37:38-08:00

�Does rebounding tone the legs, thighs, butt, etc. just as much as jogging or jumping on a regular surface?�
The answer is YES, WHEN YOU DO THE RIGHT EXERCISES. See, if you just do a soft health bounce on the Rebounder, then obviously you would have a more rigorous workout while jogging. But if you do nice toning exercises � and you will see lots of them in our TV Show on www.Rebounding.TV as I want to teach you all this good stuff � then you can wonderfully tone your whole body. Take jumping jacks as an example: When you do 2 minutes jumping jacks on the ground, you get a nice workout. When you do 2 minutes jumping jacks on the Rebounder, you get about double the training then when doing it on the floor. The reason: At the same time of doing the exercise, you bounce through space and you come to a higher G-Force. If you come to G-Force 2, which is easily achieved on a soft bouncing Rebounder, you get twice the training effect then doing the same exercise on the ground. Kind regards Sylvia

RE: Ceilling height

QiBounding — 2010-02-17T10:25:36-08:00

Hi Ren�e ,
Answer for the Bellicon bungee band Rebounders of which the feet are 12 inches high:
If you are standing on the floor, you should have at least 20 inches of space between the highest point of your head and the ceiling. This makes sure that you won't boing your head on the ceiling when you are bouncing on your rebounder. However, a ceiling which is so low, will not allow you to swing your arms over your head while bouncing on the rebounder. So preferably you'd like to have a more vertical space available.

Answer for regular spring based Rebounders or the Bellicon bungee band Rebounders with short (8 inch) legs: In this case the ceiling can be even lower than 20 inches from your head - when you stand on the ground.

Best,
Sylvia

Hallelujah - I increased my bone density in 6 months of Rebounding

QiBounding — 2010-02-17T09:46:03-08:00

Read the amazing result of Charlie Woodcock, a triathlon trainer in regards of building bone density through Rebounding in a period over 6 months:

I wanted to briefly share with you news of my bone density scan! To say it has made me smile is a big understatement. I would love to chat with you on the phone about this and also write a proper report (in April my work is much less) but in the meantime I wanted to share the amazing results.

In 2007, my scores were:

Lumbar spine: 0.888g/cm2 / T score -2.4

Left femur: 0.862g/cm2 / T score -1.2

Right femur: 0.847 g/cm2 / T score -1.3

Left Ultradistal radius: 0.297 / T score -2.2

In 2009, my score were:

Lumbar spine: 0.991 g/cm2 / T score -1.6 (Marked increase of 11.6%)

Left femur: 0.956 g/cm2 / T score -0.6 (No change in actual bone density)

Right femur: 1.013 g/cm2 / T-score -0.2 (Significant increase of 6.8%)

Left radius: 0.596 / T-score -1.6 (Mild increase of 0.4%)

Pretty amazing!

A brief synopsis - I started on the trampoline at the end of May 2009 and built up my time alternating between a shorter day (15 mins) and a longer day (building up to 50 mins over 3 months). I then put a rib out, so had two weeks off and then slowly built up my time up to 30 mins (alternating between a shorter day and a longer day with one day off a week). So basically I had just under 6 months on the trampoline before the second bone scan.

Other additional things I have done which would have helped these results were to increase my Vit D level (as it was very low) also taken Strontium Citrate for 9 months two capsules at night. However, it's interesting how the lumbar spine had the biggest increase in bone density compared to the wrist, which points significantly towards the weight bearing trampoline exercise being such a huge factor in these results.

(Charlie uses the Rebounder Bellicon 44 with strong bungee bands and screwing legs).

Charlie Woodcock
Camp Director
Solvang Triathlon Camps
Solvang, CA 93464
www.solvangtriathloncamps.com

Ceilling height

Ren�e — 2010-02-14T18:45:03-08:00

Hello,

I'm looking for a rebounder and I am wondering what is the minimal height of the ceilling if the legs of the rebounder is around 10 onches?

Could you help me?

Thank you very much,

Ren�e

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Toning

Kim — 2010-02-14T12:38:41-08:00

Hi Sylvia, I just purchased a rebounder last week, I have not received it yet but I have a question for you. I have been reading different articles about the health benefits of rebounding, but am still a little unclear about something. In most of the articles it says that rebounding burns as much if not more calories than jogging, but is it still as effective in toning the leg muscles as running or jumping on a regular suface? Thank you!

Kim

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Beer for Bones

QiBounding — 2010-02-13T08:23:18-08:00

This message will enjoy many beer lovers: The popular barley juice strengthens the bones. According to a study the beer contains large amounts of Silicon.

The finding, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, backs up previous research which also showed that the drink was good at fending off brittle bones � especially in women.

Silicon is present in beer in the soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA), up to half of which can be absorbed by the body making beer a major contributor to silicon intake in the Western diet. Beer brand analysis showed that the Silicon content varies between six and 57 milligrams per litre. Therefore, the substance is particularly abundant in shell in the hops and barley. They found that lighter beers with a greater use of hops had the most silicon.

ABC or Rebounding "F" like "Feet and Rebounding"

QiBounding — 2010-02-11T05:22:28-08:00

Learn all about the correct feet positioning in Rebounding and what Pronating means, what it does to the body and how you can stop it.
Click here to link to our Rebounding TV show

"Feet and Rebounding PART 1"

"Feet and Rebounding PART 2"

ABC of Rebounding "J" like Jogging & Rebounding

QiBounding — 2010-02-11T05:19:38-08:00

Our new Web TV show has started. Here you find every week great information about Rebounding Training. We will speak about themes of Health and Rebounding and show Rebounding exercises.
Click here for our first show "Jogging and Rebounding".

Join us Friday February 5 for our Web TV show

QiBounding — 2010-02-03T17:27:08-08:00

On Friday February 5 is the launch of our new Web TV show "All you ever wanted to know about Rebounding". From then on we will broadcast each Friday an episode of this show on www.Rebounding.TV.
The show is a platform for all Rebounding fans to communicate, exchange information, learn Rebounding Exercises and get information about cutting edge studies concerning Rebounding and Health.
We invite everybody to participate by watching the show and sending in questions and comments.

It's bouncing time!

QiBounding — 2010-01-21T11:57:15-08:00

Freebies, Short-Cuts and "Two for one's" - that's what I like in life. Why? Because basically I am lazy and I like that things can be achieved quickly and effortlessly. Also for my health. And that is why I rebound.

Rebounding allows me to catch two - or even more - flies with one strike: It moves all trillion cells in my body at the same time. And even that time is ridiculously short. It can be 10 seconds. 10 seconds that count. For my lymphatic system and for my overall health.

According to latest studies our bodies need to be moved about every hour, otherwise we risk health problems. That's easy with a Rebounder. You basically just bounce 10-20 bounces every hour.

And this is where the freebie comes in: I made a "BBC (Bounce back calender) which you can download here. Just fix the BBC on the wall next to your rebounder and cross out cases when you did your 10 or 20 bounces at the hour. For each day of the week you find one row for yourself and one for your hubby. This is a great tool to keep track and ... it's free!

On top of that you can download a free Westminster clock chime to your computer, which reminds you hourly that IT'S BOUNCING TIME.

Have fun and stay healthy. Sylvia

Doctors warn against prolonged sitting

QiBounding — 2010-01-20T06:46:56-08:00

Sitting for long periods could jeopardize the health - regardless of whether one does sport after work, as a study showed. Doctors strongly advise office workers to move around regularly during the day. In only 1 � minutes per workday, you can become risk-free.

working in an office: Long sitting - all but healthy

Problem

Newest studies prove: Long periods of sitting involve additional risk that cannot be compensated by physical activity.

Millions of us do it; we sit in our cars to get to work then sit at our desks for the majority of the day before sitting back in our cars so we can get home to sit on our sofas. A recent study that has been published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has shockingly claimed that long periods of sitting could be severely decreasing our health with no amount of exercise being able to help this muscular inactivity.

"Everyone knows the benefits of regular exercise," said Ekblom Bak, the British newspaper "The Independent". "Less well known has been that long periods of sitting involve additional risk that can not be compensated by physical activity."

The research as conducted in Sweden by two different institutes shows how a lot of muscular inactivity involved in long periods of sitting can only increase the risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes but more worrying an increased risk of death! Furthermore, one of the researchers from Stockholm�s School of Sport and Health Sciences, Dr. Elin Ekblom-Bak, goes on to suggest that their research has proven what many thought previously is indeed wrong. It was previously thought that exercise would help eradicate such risks involved with prolonged muscular inactivity, but in fact such extensive periods of sitting cannot be dealt with by exercise.

Solution:

Invest 1 � minutes daily to become risk-free

The study does suggest that taking a five minute break to walk across the office every 45 minutes could help reduce the risks. And that�s what I do: I keep my rebounder close to my office desk. I make sure that I bounce on it at least 10 times up and down each hour. This costs me 10 seconds at a time and no more than 1 � minutes in my 8 hour workday.

The 12 most touching Rebounding stories of 2009

QiBounding — 2010-01-17T09:11:45-08:00

In December 2009 we asked our clients to write their Rebounding Story. The result was amazing. Here a link to the most touching Rebounding stories.

First Bellicon sent to the North Pole

QiBounding — 2009-12-14T14:04:06-08:00

Imagine that: Yesterday we received an order to ship a Bellicon Rebounder to the North Pole. No, it was not Father Christmas who wants to start bouncing on a Bellicon. It is an order for a Christmas gift for children up there in Alaska. So... the slay is on it's way to up there. Happy Bouncing!!!!

RE: I have Osteoprenia

QiBounding — 2009-12-05T20:09:03-08:00

Dear Penelope,
Yes, we have very good results with Osteopenia. First, myself. I was diagnosed with Osteopenia when I had just been introduced to Rebounding. This is many years ago. At that time I lived in Switzerland. I was just in my training to become a Rebounding Instructor. When my doctor and specialist for Osteoporosis heard that I am Rebounding, he told me that this is the best what I can do and that I won't need supplementary exercises.
Later, when I was already a Rebounding trainer and lived in the US, one of my clients had Osteopenia. She started Rebounding and after 1 1/2 years she was back to normal bone density. She rebounded every other day intensly during 10 minutes.
In Germany they have done several surveys of women with Osteoporosis. The survey was over 3 months. They had very good results. I have published the Video Clip on my website and - as it is in German - I have translated both video clips. You find the translation under the video clip

You find it on this website under HEALTH > OSTEOPOROSIS