Here at TeamTrampoline we often talk about how your children will love receiving a trampoline for Christmas or their birthday. What deserves mentioning, however, is that a trampoline is just as good of a gift for adults as it is for children.
One factor of course is that trampolines aren’t an overly played-out gift. A trampoline is a gift that showed you didn’t just go the easy route of sending cash or a gift card (this is especially true if you assemble the trampoline for your friend or relative!).
Of course, maybe you’re just reading this page because you’re interested in purchasing a trampoline for yourself. If that’s the case, continue on.
In this post, we’re going to discuss the 10 benefits of trampolining for adults. After you read this post, you’ll have all the motivation you need to finally purchase a trampoline (or start using the old one nobody has touched since your kids moved out).
#1 Weight loss
The first benefit of using a trampoline for adults is that it will help you lose weight. Anytime you increase the amount of physical activity you engage in you burn more calories. We’ve all heard that losing weight is all about calories-in and calories-out.
This leads us to an obvious question — Why use a trampoline at all? Why not just run, lift weights, or do yoga classes? Those are all legitimate methods of losing weight.
Unfortunately, the problem is adherence. Let’s imagine the most effective way of losing weight was to sprint up and down a large hill with frozen milk jugs.
Even if you knew on a logical level that sticking to this method would produce results, there’s still a good chance you would give up because of the immense willpower one would need to commit themselves to such a training routine.
While this is an extreme example, the same adherence principle applies to every form of exercising.
Doing squats and deadlifts may build the body of your dreams in less time than jumping on a trampoline will, but let’s be honest… how consistent have you been with deadlifts this year? Yeah… we feel bad about our answer to this question too.
Jumping on a trampoline is an excellent method of losing weight because it’s fairly strenuous while still being fun.
If you’ve struggled with sticking to an exercise routine in the past, jumping on a trampoline may be an alternative exercise method you could be successful with!
#2 Lymphatic drainage
Limetastic sewage what? If the term lymphatic drainage is new to you, don’t worry. It’s a concept that isn’t discussed nearly as much as it deserves to be talked about.
The lymphatic system is like our body’s “garbage disposal system”. What this means is that the lymphatic system is basically our body’s method of removing toxins from our body.
Unfortunately, the lymphatic system doesn’t operate as automatically as the cardiovascular system. While your heart pumps blood no matter what you do, lymphatic drainage or the removal of toxins doesn’t.
Our lymph system relies on us to move in order for toxins to be expelled from our bodies. Without movement, we face the scary situation of toxins accumulating in our lymph nodes.
Fortunately, any exercise we do such as swimming, or yoga can help us remove toxins from our bodies. Some scientists, however, feel that rebounding or jumping on a trampoline is the most effective way for us to cleanse our lymph nodes.
Natural health practitioners say that the up and down movement we experience when jumping on a trampoline is perhaps the most natural detoxing method we have.
While we have no scientific background here at TeamTrampoline, there seems to be a general consensus that jumping on a trampoline is great for lymph node cleansing.
#3 Bone and joint health
Are you suffering from weak joints or osteoporosis? If so, you may find jumping on a trampoline or rebounding extremely beneficial.
NASA discovered as early as 1980 that rebounding helped astronauts regain their bone density when they returned from space (being in space, an atmosphere with a lack of gravity caused their bones to lose much of their density).
How does this work? Let’s explain it as simply as possible. Like your muscles, your bones can become stronger if they are challenged to the proper extent.
Bouncing on a trampoline puts your bones under small amounts of stress. To accommodate for these small stresses, over time your bones will build themselves up to be stronger than they were before!
Apart from strengthening your bones, another benefit adults get from jumping on a trampoline is improved joint health.
Using a trampoline leads to the strengthening of the tendons, ligaments, and muscles around your joints. This leads to reduced pressure on your joints and a decreased risk of pain or injury.
#4 Better posture
Another benefit of trampolining for adults is that rebounding or jumping on the trampoline often you’ll improves your posture and balance. Most importantly, these benefits aren’t enjoyed only while you are jumping on the trampoline.
The increased back and stomach strength you enjoy from using a trampoline regularly will also allow your body to better support the spine. This can help alleviate many of the undesirable effects we experience as a result of poor posture.
#5 Healthier cardiovascular system
Most people associate the cardiovascular system and heart health with running. While running is an excellent cardiovascular activity, it can also be hard on your knees.
There’s also the fact that many of us simply don’t enjoy running! Fortunately, trampolining offers a similar cardiovascular benefit to running.
When you jump on a trampoline you increase your body’s blood flow and you may even lower your blood pressure as well (due to the increased blood circulation).
#6 Improved immune functioning
Apart from helping to reduce the number of toxins in your body, rebounding can also help improve your immune system functioning by supporting tissue repair.
#7 Seemingly easier than other forms of exercise
Weight lifting feels like weight lifting, running feels like running, jumping on a trampoline feels like something we’d do for fun! Interestingly enough, there are actually scientific studies that support this idea.
24 college students were recruited to do different forms of exercise (such as walking on a treadmill and jumping on a trampoline). What was interesting was that when students jumped on the trampoline, their actual health rate measured at a level typically seen by more strenuous activities such as running or playing soccer.
Despite a high actual heart rate, however, the students rated their perceived level of exertion much lower than expected. This means that students perceived exercise conducted on a trampoline to be easier than similar moderate-vigorous exercises.
Given this fact, jumping on a trampoline is more likely to give excellent health benefits without causing its participants to give up the way difficult workouts such as running or weight lifting often do.
#8 Fun for all ages 20 or 70
Some activities are only enjoyed by the young among us. Fortunately, trampolining isn’t one of those activities. Young children can enjoy trampolining because it is fun and a novel activity they may not always have access to.
The older among us can also enjoy trampolining because it’s a reasonably safe, gentle, and low-impact exercise. This makes trampolining an excellent activity to help the entire extended family bond!
#9 Can be done alone
Of course, all of us need some breathing space from family after a long get-together. That’s where your trampoline comes in. Everyone needs at least one activity they can do for some personal rejuvenation time.
Trampolining certainly beats playing on your phone. There’s no better way to get rid of that icky stress after a long day of work than jumping on the trampoline.
#10 One-time fee
Some people think trampolines are too expensive. Oh, you spent $200 on a trampoline? Are you rich? This, however, is a shortsighted way of viewing things.
The reality is that all of us spend money on some form of entertainment. After two years of joining that summer soccer league for $100/season, you could have instead purchased a trampoline!
Or, cut the weekly cinema visit for a few months and you’ll have enough money for a trampoline in no time.
While a trampoline is an expense, it’s not so consumable like a lot of the other forms of entertainment we enjoy as adults. You don’t have to pay to use your trampoline every time you use it.
Enjoying a trampoline for several years only requires a one-time fee. As adults that are trying to make sure we get the most out of our paychecks, the fact that a trampoline is a one-time purchase that can be enjoyed for years at a time is a HUGE benefit.
Conclusion
We hope our list of 10 benefits of trampolining for adults was useful for you. If you’re considering purchasing a trampoline, we recommend getting started with the JumpKing brand. Here is a link to a large trampoline we recommend, and a smaller trampoline.
Otherwise, we hope that reading our list at least planted the idea in your head to find a form of exercise you enjoy.
Whether it’s trampolining, swimming, or skateboarding, our lives have the potential to be so much happier and healthier when we find a form of exercise we love!