Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to learn

about whether trampoline workouts and something called Rebounding actually works for things like

increasing your fitness or burning calories.

Now, before addressing that, I did get a few questions last week when I released a past episode

about how to tighten skin after losing weight.

Now, beginning from when I was a young boy, I can recall many adventurous visits to my friend Brian's

house where we would do boy things like jump in the creek, fish, hang from rope swings,

climb cliffs, look for snakes and animals, start tiny fires, and jump for hours on a trampoline

until we were completely covered in sweat and our muscles were done.

Sure, this exhausting jump workout was typically followed by copious amounts of time spent eating junk food and playing video games.

Yeah, I got on the extreme health and fitness bandwagon a bit later in life.

But new research actually shows that some things you love doing as a kid,

like running around in nature and

not sitting for long periods of time, and you guessed it, jumping on a trampoline are actually

pretty great for your body, even as an adult. And the latest study, which was conducted by the

American Council of Exercise, better known as Ace, discovered that when it comes to heart rate and oxygen expenditure,

bouncing on a mini trampoline for less than 20 minutes a day is just as good for you as running,

although participants in the study reported that it made them feel better and was a lot more fun than

actually running. Now, in the study, they gave a group of 24 participants a mini trampoline workout in the form of a 19-minute trampoline exercise video.

And by the way, the video is available online and it's called a jump sport workout.

Now, they then measured the jumpers' heart rates and oxygen expenditure for each of the 19 minutes.

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