Trampoline exercise 'improves coordination'
25/08/2010 Jumping on a mini trampoline helps enhance your coordination by improving spatial awareness, timing and balance, it has been suggested.
The Trampoline Resource blog explained that when people train correctly and regularly, coordination can be improved, while if you don't it will decline, just like with other forms of training.
According to the blog, when you jump on a trampoline you're forced to correct your position in the air to ensure you land in the middle, which enhances spatial awareness.
Timing is enhanced as you create a steady rhythm when you bounce and because the trampoline is an uneven and unstable surface you're forced to constantly adjust your body position, which improves balance.
These elements combined together mean that regular trampoline exercise helps you to improve your coordination.
"Because you are engaging in a repetitive movement with light resistance while training on a rebounder, you can get in a great calorie burning aerobic workout," the blog added.
Playing on a trampoline is also a great activity to do with your kids, as Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise highlighted recently.
The actor told the German magazine Bild that he often jumps on the trampoline with his daughter Suri, describing her as his "fountain of youth".
The Trampoline Resource blog explained that when people train correctly and regularly, coordination can be improved, while if you don't it will decline, just like with other forms of training.
According to the blog, when you jump on a trampoline you're forced to correct your position in the air to ensure you land in the middle, which enhances spatial awareness.
Timing is enhanced as you create a steady rhythm when you bounce and because the trampoline is an uneven and unstable surface you're forced to constantly adjust your body position, which improves balance.
These elements combined together mean that regular trampoline exercise helps you to improve your coordination.
"Because you are engaging in a repetitive movement with light resistance while training on a rebounder, you can get in a great calorie burning aerobic workout," the blog added.
Playing on a trampoline is also a great activity to do with your kids, as Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise highlighted recently.
The actor told the German magazine Bild that he often jumps on the trampoline with his daughter Suri, describing her as his "fountain of youth".
