Chapter One Miraculous Conceptions

DON'T PRACTISE REBOUNDING WHILE YOU ARE PREGNANT!

Turn your rebounding programmes around, sink your roots into gravity, and use my 'Safety Pins' programme, performing light mobility exercises, and yoga-based stretching.

Enjoy this period of time to explore the use of the rebounder while preparing for labour!

Chapter Two Post Natal Graduation

ON THE REBOUNDER AGAIN

For the first six weeks following childbirth, initial post-natal Starboundtechniques are designed to strengthen and restore muscular tone, abdominal strength, and pelvic floor control.

Do not use your mini trampoline for bouncing during this post-natal phase - commence rebounding workouts after the 6 weeks mark!

Techniques in my Starbound post-natal plan are centred on the bed of the mini-trampoline mat. You'll be ready to graduate back onto the rebounder around about the six-week mark, with very gentle rebounding sessions.

Chapter Three A Bonny Baby

REBOUNDING WITH A BABY IN THE HOUSE

With a baby in the house you'll find the rebounder a most versatile piece of nursery equipment!

Many a grizzly babe with colic has been soothed with a bounce. Starbound my book provides plans and techniques to awaken your imagination, using the rebounder as a support.

Chapter Four Bouncy Offspring

MINI TRAMPOLINES AND BOUNCY OFFSPRING - STARBOUND MINI TRAMPOLINE WORKOUTS AND REBOUNDING EXERCISES FOR CHILDREN

The best way to encourage the 'art of rebounding' on a mini trampoline, from an early age, is to include new skills for your children through games.

Mini trampoline workouts for children are one of the best ways to encourage a wide range of physical activity and education skills. Numerous skills, when children are exercising on rebounders on the rebounder can positively influence your child's educational capacity.

Humming, clapping, clicking and chanting are natural additives to a fun-filled bouncing session for a youngster.

Inactivity in childhood and early life fuels the risk of ill health. Childhood is crucial for laying down healthy cells, bones, tissues and patterns of circulation, all of which develop rapidly.

Children love to work in positive parameters. Use my 'Fun and Games' programme in Starbound my book to encourage the art of rebounding, in a fun-filled way, to keep your children bouncing from an early age! On the other hand, bundles of extra energy needn't be a negative sign in a so-called 'hyperactive' child. But unnatural recreational practice, with a simple lack of hyped-up activity at the top of the list, is often the very weight that tips the scales and disturbs the balance.

Rather than having youngsters bust the bedsprings, and having their instinctive urges to bounce knocked out of them at an early age, why not offer your children the encouragement to channel their energy into bouncy rebounding sessions?

Chapter Five Senior Citizens

SENIOR CITIZENS THRIVE WITH REBOUNDING WORKOUTS

Mini trampoline rebounding exercise workouts for the elderly and senior citizens are always popular. Many elderly folk have turned the quality of their lives around with a simple daily bounce! Sheer enthusiasm is reflected in thousands of letters I've received over the years. Rebounding exercise for the elderly is often one of the only workouts that can be easily performed at home.

The ability of your organs to function often falls in line with an associated decrease in activity, and the corresponding depletion of rich supplies of life-giving oxygen. Rebounding provides wonderful activity for the elderly. It is immediately accessible, and can be performed for a few minutes at a time, to replenish essential oxygen supplies and keep circulation on the move.

Most importantly, rebound exercises provide whole body exercise, stimulating brilliant health benefits, without placing stress impact on the joints. With a support bar attached to the frame of the mini trampoline, balance is supported and confidence restored within rebounding programmes. Don't doze your latter days away!

Whatever your age, it's never too late to step up onto the mini trampoline and enjoy the benefits and energy that bouncing will bring!