'Brain can benefit' from trampolining
06/07/2009 It has long been claimed how trampoline exercise can be great for fitness, but now one expert has suggested that bouncing can be good for the brain.
The Getting Kids Reading blog reports how brain researcher Bernadette Tynan says trampolines improve meta-cognative abilities – essentially the ability to think about thinking.
She claims that because someone jumping on a trampoline never lands the same way twice, the brain has to constantly work at maintaining balance.
Ms Tynan says thinking about staying in the middle of the trampoline or staying in synch with another bouncer "gives the brain extra focus, the blog proclaims.
For this reason, even NASA astronauts are partial to using the apparatus as part of their preparations for going into space, it is suggested.
According to a post on the Living Young Forever blog, those using a trampoline to get in shape should regularly change the drills and exercises they do so their body does not get too used to one routine.
The Getting Kids Reading blog reports how brain researcher Bernadette Tynan says trampolines improve meta-cognative abilities – essentially the ability to think about thinking.
She claims that because someone jumping on a trampoline never lands the same way twice, the brain has to constantly work at maintaining balance.
Ms Tynan says thinking about staying in the middle of the trampoline or staying in synch with another bouncer "gives the brain extra focus, the blog proclaims.
For this reason, even NASA astronauts are partial to using the apparatus as part of their preparations for going into space, it is suggested.
According to a post on the Living Young Forever blog, those using a trampoline to get in shape should regularly change the drills and exercises they do so their body does not get too used to one routine.
