• The special bellicon® bungees create just the right tension to train muscles and strengthen the heart, without pressure on the joints

• Even people who are seriously overweight can train softly with the highly elastic mini trampoline

• The training is so versatile that you will discover new exercises every time

Always doing the same cardio training gets boring quickly. Therefore, make sure there is variation. This way your body will always get new stimuli and training will be fun for you to do. With the versatile bellicon® even continuous endurance training can be varied over and over again.

Rebounding is proven to be a better exercise than running. Which may surprise you just as much as it did the NASA scientists who first proved it. 

More recent studies have not only confirmed that bouncing on a mini trampoline is significantly superior to running for reaching target heart rates, increasing cardio strength and engaging muscles, but that it also reduces fat 50% faster. And even though bouncing burns more energy than running, the subjects felt it was less fatiguing, and would exercise longer while jumping. Of course, being a very low-impact exercise, it also avoids the strain on knees, joints and cartilage that runner’s experience. In short, rebounding surpasses running…by leaps and bounds.

Read more about this study here.

You don’t need to go full speed to go the distance

Of course, we love professional athletes’ enthusiasm for the bellicon® rebounder. But for us, seeing people of all ages get excited about exercise is what it’s all about.

For everyone not going for gold, it’s precisely the moderate, regular physical activity that’s so much fun on a bellicon® that’s best for you. As a Duke University study shows, this kind of lower-intensity workout is just what the doctor ordered for getting into shape, lowering blood pressure and sugar levels as well as burning excess body fat and keeping cholesterol under control. So you don’t have to push yourself to the limits to reach your health goals. In fact, you don’t even need to take your pulse to check you’re not overdoing it – being able to hold a conversation is just as good an indicator.

These findings are right in line with the British and American Heart Associations’ recommended 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise, divided into sessions of at least ten minutes and ideally spread throughout the week. 

This really comes down to what we at bellicon have always believed – exercising should be the happy part of your day.