Dr. Robert O. Young
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss
by Robert O. Yound, PhD. and Shelley Redford Yound

On the Rebounder

There’s only one way I know of to guarantee that all 75 trillion cells in your body get the ideal workout all at once, and that’s rebounding.  Working out on a small, low trampoline applies weight and movement to every cell in the entire body, the most efficient way to become stronger, more flexible, healthier – and slimmer!  Cells expand and contract with the vertical (up-and-down) movement of bouncing on a rebounder.  The acceleration and the deceleration that come from bouncing create pressure changes within the body, and an increased amount of weight against the cell membranes, stimulating and strengthening them.  All the movement provides a kind of cellular massage, which increases circulation, opens blood vessels and breaks up blockages, improves drainage of the lymph, and strengthens the cell membrane.  You whole body, not just your muscles, gets toned, cleansed, and strengthened – on a cellular level, from the inside out.  That’s why both Shelley (his wife) and I do it every day.

Rebounding is the most convenient, metabolically effective, acid-removing from of exercise I know.  It strengthens the entire body, increases circulation, improves digestion and elimination, protects the heart, supports the endocrine system and adrenal glands, improves thyroid function, eases menstrual problems, strengthens muscles, improves bone density, releases stress, pumps the lymphatic system, promotes cell growth and repair, improves the immune system, fights disease processes, and reverses the symptoms of aging. What more could you ask for in a form of exercise?

How about:  Rebounding reduces body fat levels; firms legs, thighs, abdomens,
arms, and hips; increases agility; improves balance, builds endurance; and increases energy levels.  It also improves your performance in an array of other athletic endeavors.  And all this it does without the stress of impact that attends so many other forms of exercise.  Rebounding stimulates the metabolism, burns calories effectively, and more important removes acids through the skin and elimination organs.  Rebounding fights obesity.

Rebounding is the best way I know to simultaneously reduce acidic body fat and firm body tissues with aerobic exercise.

On the rebounder, you bounce up and down against gravity.  Because you’re not landing on solid ground, there’s no trauma to the joints.  Working against the constant gravitational pressure, alternating weightlessness at the top of the bounce and double –gravity at the bottom, rebounding produces a pumping action that pulls acidic waste products out of the cells and forces oxygen and other nutrients from the bloodstream into them.  This provides a number of benefits; I’ll detail a few of the key ones here:

Rebounding is good for you heart.  You can, of course, attain your target your heart rate while rebounding.  The aerobic effect of rebounding often surpasses that of running.  (Explained in his book – The pH Miracle for Weight Loss).  Beyond that, rebounding strengthens your heart in two ways.  It improves the tone and quality of the muscle itself, and it increases the coordination of the muscle fibers as they drain blood out of the heart during each beat.  Rebounding can also lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels by removing excess acid, and lower blood pressure.  And it allows the heart to beat less often when at rest, meaning your heart is running easily and efficiently.  Regular rebounding, at least fifteen minutes five days a week, protects you against heart disease.

Rebounding is detoxifying.  The movement of rebounding stimulates the lymphatic system, helping it drain away the body’s metabolic wastes, ridding you of acidic toxins and other junk cast off by cells.  The lymphatic system does not have its own pump, the way the circulation system has the heart.  There are just three ways to move the fluid around through the lymph vessels; gravitational pressure, lymphatic massage – and the muscular contraction from exercise and movement.  Rebounding effectively provides all three.

Rebounding stabilizes the nervous system.  Exercise is a great way to relieve stress. 

Rebounding has the additional benefit of the repetitive bouncing motion, which can put you into an almost trance-like state of total relaxation.  It can be meditative, or hypnotic.  You get the benefits not only while you’re bouncing, but also continuing into your whole lifestyle.  You’ll be more resistant to environmental, physical, emotional, and mental stress.  My clients who rebound tell me they can think better, work longer, and learn more easily.  They also say they relax more easily, sleep better, and feel less tense and nervous.  The report that the exercise invigorates them and fills them with a sense of well-being.

Rebounding builds muscle.  Rebounding allows the muscles to go through their full range of motion with equal force, the best way to produce true physical strength, according to James White, Ph.D., director of research in rehabilitation in the physical education department at the University of California at San Diego.  Rebounding improves the coordination of nerve impulse transmission to muscle fibers, meaning the muscles can work more effectively and efficiently.  And it increases muscle fiber tone, which creates muscular strength.  As Dr. White points out, rebounding also helps you learn to shift you weight properly, be aware of the position of your body, and improves your balance, which is not only good for you all around but also lets you use the strength you have.  All these benefits are there for anyone who rebounds for at least fifteen minutes at least five times a weeks.  Just about anyone can rebound.  It’s good for all ages – a form of exercise you can enjoy for a lifetime.  Rebounding can be adjusted to meet your current fitness level, then move you up from there.  You easily control the intensity of the workout, depending on how vigorously you bounce and how high you lift your feet off the mat.  Rebounding is safe, convenient, hausting you or depriving your cells of sufficient oxygen.  Quite simply, it is one of the most effective forms of motion known.  Plus, it is fun to bounce!
Rebounding vs. Other Exercise

Most other forms of exercise apply weight to specific muscles or groups of muscles, but rebounding targets every single cell in your body at once, applying pressure nearly one hundred times a minute.  Other forms of exercise, including weight lifting and many calisthenics like push-ups, and sit-ups, use a repetitive up-and-down motion the way rebounding does, but these conventional exercises still isolate specific muscles or muscle groups.  That makes it very time consuming to work out the whole body, for one thing, as well as stressing the body much more than rebounding requires in an attempt to reach the same goal.  It also increases the opportunity for injury.  You could get many of the benefits of rebounding by jumping rope, but you’d be courting joint and back pain from all that slamming down on the ground with the full force of your body – aided by gravity.  Moreover, jumping rope won’t pump the lymphatic system the way rebounding does.  In general, rebounding is more effective for both fitness and weight loss than cycling, running, or jogging, according to Dr. White, with the added advantage of producing dramatically fewer injuries (over both the short and long term).  NASA research determined that rebounding is a 68 percent more effective aerobic exercise than jogging.
Another thing that sets rebounding apart from the most common forms of exercise like jogging, walking, biking, and weight lifting is that it provides isotonic, isometric, calisthenic, and aerobic exercise all in one go.  It lets you tone specific muscles by moving them with a constant load applied, as in weight lifting (isotonic exercise).  You can isolate specific muscles or muscle group to focus on by creating muscular contractions without movement of the body part involved (isometric exercise).  You can activate the body’s largest, most powerful muscles with small, gentle, precise motions consistently applied to quickly tighten and tone those areas (calisthenic exercise).

And you do all this aerobically.  You can see the descriptions and illustrations of different rebounding techniques in his book (The pH Miracles for Weight Loss), you can target every part of your body with rebounding, including, the thighs, knees, hips, buttocks, waist, stomach, and arms.  Bouncing, jumping, jogging, kicking, and twisting in place on the rebounder is a full-body weight-bearing activity that strengthens muscles, connective tissue, ligaments, and bones.  Changing the angle of the body changes the stress on the muscles – leaning back as you kick your legs places more stress on the stomach muscles; leaning forward as you lift your legs behind you puts more stress on your glutes – making different cells work against gravity, which tightens, lifts, and tones the muscles and even the organs and skin.  Plus, fifteen minutes a day is enough to challenge every cell in your cardiovascular pulmonary system to be all that it can be.