Rebounding for Lymphatic Health: Health Bounce and Balance

And your lymphatic system sweeps away waste from the tissues, remember it's the body's vacuum cleaner, and it dumps the waste into the lymph nodes in our neck, in our armpits, in our groin.

There are lymphocytes, which is a white blood cell that can deal with the waste, dump it into the blood, and then we sweat out the waste, we urinate out the waste, out our colon comes the waste.

That's how the whole process happens. When you wake up in the morning, these little gates are all closed, which means the waste can't get out.

Just getting out of bed, moving your arms and legs, opens them a little bit.

But the activity that opens every single gate in the whole body is the rebounder.

So when you're on the rebounder ... And let me get on the rebounder and show you.

So when- if you're not used to it, you can just go like that.

That's called the health bounce. But as you get better at it, I'm not gonna jump really, really high, but you can, you get better at it.

You get- kids, have you seen what kids will do on this?

You know, at first, kids are a little bit out of balance, and you might be a little bit out of balance, but the more you do it, the better your balance will be.

You can also start by this, just going like that.

But this little one's called the health bounce.

But when you start jumping, when you're to the height of your jump, every gate opens, and when you hit the mat again, every gate closes.

Isn't that incredible? You only have to rebound for one minute in the morning to get that lymphatic system activated for the whole day, and once that lymphatic system is activated, every movement you make, just scratching your head, turning around,

da da da, it's keeping the movement going.

So this, again, is called the health bounce.

If, if you can't do this, you're a little unstable, just find a post to hold onto, or you can get a, a, I think there's another rebounder downstairs that has a frame, and you can hold onto that frame. I like not to, because I don't wanna become dependent on the frame, but if it's too hard for you,

by all means, start with the, start with the frame.

See, even doing this health bounce, I can feel my second heart, my calf muscles strengthening. Some people say, "I'm not gonna get on the rebounder because, um, you know, I'm out of balance." Well, guess how you get into balance? By rebounding. If you're not used to this, at first

you might be a little unstable, but the more you do it, you will notice you, you will get your balance.

Your balance is set by the bottom of your feet and by the fine mechanisms in your ear, and so rebounding resets those fine mechanisms in your ear and resets the, the soles of your feet.

Jeffrey's given me permission just to put, put my shoes on on the mat just while I'm giving this, uh, lecture, but you're best on bare feet and your, your feet s- s- spray out like that. But also, it strengthens your arch,

because when you're bouncing, you're bouncing on your toes.

There's not a part in the body that is not affected by rebounding, and these three forces that come together and the effect that it has on the lymphatic system puts it in the class of the most powerful form of exercise there is. And you might say, "Well, Barbara, most of your work is being done with your legs.

What about your upper body?" It's all affected, but let me show you how you can, uh, strengthen your biceps.

So you jump with your, with your palms down. As you jump, that strengthens the bicep muscle. Yes, you can do your triceps too, and that's where you put your palm up, and you jump with your, your palm up, and that strengthens your tricep muscles.

And often, I will twist as I do it, so I twist like this, and that, that helps with the spine.

And so when my arms get tired out there, then, then I will do that. But I'll often do 10, 10, uh, biceps, 10 triceps.

You can also strengthen your eyesight. How do you strengthen your eyesight?

Now, I'm not doing much and, and I'm fairly fit, but can you see in my breath? So it doesn't seem like you're hardly doing anything, but it has a powerful effect on the body.

So how do you strengthen your eyesight? So you can al- also just do this.

Anyone can do that, where you're not, not even jumping, but you're having an effect.

How do you strengthen your eyesight? So right now, looking out that door there, I will focus on that tree.

I'll focus my eyes on the leaves of the tree, and the ... So when I'm doing it, the tree is standing still, but the big trees in the background are jumping, and that lamp's jumping, and that lamp's jumping. So what I'll do now, after 10 jumps, I'll focus on that lamp, and I'll keep that lamp still, and

the leaves that were still before are now jumping in the peripheral.

Can you see what you do? You, you keep changing your focus, and that strengthens your eyesight.