Exercises for a Trampoline Workout

The Nintendo Wii has quickly become a popular video game console because of Nintendo's great advertising. Nintendo passed the Wii off as a console that was fun, but was also healthy because of the workout that a person can get from playing games like Wii Sports and the Wii Fit. Little do people realize that there was another invention that could be used both for fun and for fitness long ago. It is called a trampoline.

The first exercise is an easy to do exercise called the contact big bounce. To do the contact big bounce, stand in the middle of the trampoline with your feet at the same length apart as the shoulders. Simply bounce high enough for the feet to leave the trampoline. Do this exercise 10 times.

For a little bit more difficultly try doing the same exercise but instead of just jumping up and down without moving anything else, try doing jumping jacks instead. Once again do 10 of this exercise.

To get a work out for the legs try doing trampoline knee raises. Begin by bouncing up and down on the trampoline like the contact big bounce. Then as you bounce off the ground raise your right knee in front of you and then put your foot back on the ground as you come back down to the trampoline. Do 10 knee raises with the right knee and then switch to the left knee and do 10 more.

Another alternative of the knee raise is to do one right knee raise immediately followed by one left knee raise instead of doing ten of one and ten of the other. Alternating between knees simply makes the exercise a little bit more difficult.

If the trampoline is large enough to do exercises more difficult then standing jumps then you can also mix in landing on other parts of the body. Jumping on both feet, then dropping to a seating position and then bouncing back up to a standing position again is called the seat drop exercise. This exercise will work the abdominal muscles. You can also alternate between a standing position and a kneeling position to work the quadriceps, calves and gluteal muscles.