I wanted to briefly share with you news of my bone density scan! To say it has made me smile is a big understatement. I would love to chat with you on the phone about this and also write a proper report (in April my work is much less) but in the meantime I wanted to share the amazing results.

In 2007, my scores were:

Lumbar spine:  0.888g/cm2 / T score -2.4

Left femur: 0.862g/cm2 / T score -1.2

Right femur:  0.847 g/cm2 / T score -1.3

Left Ultradistal radius: 0.297 / T score -2.2

In 2009, my score were:

Lumbar spine: 0.991 g/cm2 / T score -1.6 (Marked increase of 11.6%)

Left femur: 0.956 g/cm2 / T score -0.6 (No change in actual bone density)

Right femur: 1.013 g/cm2 / T-score -0.2 (Significant increase of 6.8%)

Left radius: 0.596 / T-score -1.6 (Mild increase of 0.4%)

Pretty amazing!

A brief synopsis - I started on the trampoline at the end of May 2009 and built up my time alternating between a shorter day (15 mins) and a longer day (building up to 50 mins over 3 months). I then put a rib out, so had two weeks off and then slowly built up my time up to 30 mins (alternating between a shorter day and a longer day with one day off a week). So basically I had just under 6 months on the trampoline before the second bone scan.

Other additional things I have done which would have helped these results were to increase my Vit D level (as it was very low) also taken Strontium Citrate for 9 months two capsules at night. However, it's interesting how the lumbar spine had the biggest increase in bone density compared to the wrist, which points significantly towards the weight bearing trampoline exercise being such a huge factor in these results.

(Charlie uses the Rebounder Bellicon 44 with strong bungee bands and screwing legs).

Charlie Woodcock
Camp Director
Solvang Triathlon Camps
Solvang, CA 93464
www.solvangtriathloncamps.com

Hello,

 I'm looking for a rebounder and I am wondering what is the minimal height of the ceilling if the legs of the rebounder is around 10 onches?

 Could you help me?

 Thank you very much,

 Renée 

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Hi Sylvia, I just purchased a rebounder last week, I have not received it yet but I have a question for you. I have been reading different articles about the health benefits of rebounding, but am still a little unclear about something. In most of the articles it says that rebounding burns as much if not more calories than jogging, but is it still as effective in toning the leg muscles as running or jumping on a regular suface? Thank you!

Kim

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The finding, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, backs up previous research which also showed that the drink was good at fending off brittle bones – especially in women.

Silicon is present in beer in the soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA), up to half of which can be absorbed by the body making beer a major contributor to silicon intake in the Western diet. Beer brand analysis showed that the Silicon content varies between six and 57 milligrams per litre. Therefore, the substance is particularly abundant in shell in the hops and barley. They found that lighter beers with a greater use of hops had the most silicon.

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And this is where the freebie comes in: I made a "BBC (Bounce back calender) which you can download  here. Just fix the BBC on the wall next to your rebounder and cross out cases when you did your 10 or 20 bounces at the hour. For each day of the week you find one row for yourself and one for your hubby. This is a great tool to keep track and ... it's free!

On top of that you can download a free Westminster clock chime to your computer, which reminds you hourly that IT'S BOUNCING TIME.

Have fun and stay healthy. Sylvia

Sitting for long periods could jeopardize the health - regardless of whether one does sport after work, as a study showed. Doctors strongly advise office workers to move around regularly during the day. In only 1 ½ minutes per workday, you can become risk-free.

working in an office: Long sitting - all but healthy

Problem

Newest studies prove: Long  periods of sitting involve additional risk that cannot be compensated by physical activity.

Millions of us do it; we sit in our cars to get to work then sit at our desks for the majority of the day before sitting back in our cars so we can get home to sit on our sofas. A recent study that has been published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has shockingly claimed that long periods of sitting could be severely decreasing our health with no amount of exercise being able to help this muscular inactivity.

"Everyone knows the benefits of regular exercise," said Ekblom Bak, the British newspaper "The Independent". "Less well known has been that long periods of sitting involve additional risk that can not be compensated by physical activity."

The research as conducted in Sweden by two different institutes shows how a lot of muscular inactivity involved in long periods of sitting can only increase the risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes but more worrying an increased risk of death! Furthermore, one of the researchers from Stockholm’s School of Sport and Health Sciences, Dr. Elin Ekblom-Bak, goes on to suggest that their research has proven what many thought previously is indeed wrong. It was previously thought that exercise would help eradicate such risks involved with prolonged muscular inactivity, but in fact such extensive periods of sitting cannot be dealt with by exercise.

Solution:

Invest 1 ½ minutes daily to become risk-free

The study does suggest that taking a five minute break to walk across the office every 45 minutes could help reduce the risks. And that’s what I do: I keep my rebounder close to my office desk.  I make sure that I bounce on it at least 10 times up and down each hour. This costs me 10 seconds at a time and no more than 1 ½ minutes in my 8 hour workday.