What Exercises Should I Do On My Mini Trampoline?

December 18th, 2008 by Jill Brennan


by Jane Bracken

Mini trampoline exercises are a great way to lose weight and keep you fit. But along with the exercises you should maintain a healthy diet as well. These exercises should be performed three to four days a week to achieve the best result.

Warming up before exercise and cooling down after the exercise are important in order to prevent unwanted injuries. Warm-up ensures that your muscles are warm enough and ready for workout. Cool down exercises ensure that muscles wind down after hard work. Both warm up and cool down exercises should be done.

Warm-up and Cool-Down Exercises include trampoline contact bounce i.e. with your feet placed shoulder-width apart, bend your knees slightly and place your hands on your waistline. Begin the trampoline contact bounce very gently without your feet leaving the mat.

Another very effective warm up exercise is the trampoline foot tap in which you keep your body in the position used for the contact bounce and shift your weight to one side. Then tap your one foot out to the opposite side and start bouncing steadily.

Now the best exercise to start with is the lower body stretch. In this exercise you place your feet shoulder-width apart and put your hands behind your back. Now, bend over as if you were going to touch your toes. Hold this position for thirty seconds and repeat the movement ten times.

Inversion Table Therapy For Back Pain

December 9th, 2008 by Zul Rahman


by Zul Rahman

What is inversion table?

Inversion table is an exercises table that is designed in such a way that your feet is placed higher than your head. Therefore it helps to reduces the negative effects of gravity. In fact these tables position your body upside down, so the gravity works in the opposite direction.

Most of the doctors and physical therapist recommended to their patients with back pain. In fact for these patients most medical practitioners recommended inversion table exercise.

Inversion tables comes in many different sizes and design.They are also available from many different brands and manufacturers.

Certain design of the table are complicated, big size and difficult to operate. Some of them are design to be portable, perfectly fit into a small storage space.

Some inversion tables could also be used as a workout machine that you can exercise other body parts. The price tag is labeled according to the features and functionality. For examples power inversion tables are more expensive than the manually operated one.

Each of the equipment could only hold certain weight and will last in a limited time. Most of the manufacturers offer limited warranty.

What are other benefits of inversion table?

People with lower back pain find the table to be very effective because the gravity helps to pull the back bone. Consequently it relieves from lower back pain agony.

Garmin GPS Chartplotters – A Great Way To Navigate

December 1st, 2008 by Sean McPhearson


by Sean McPhearson

With Garmin GPS units ranked right up there at the top it is no wonder that the users love them. Garmin creates good quality products that the users can enjoy and benefit from.

Not only are GPS units fun they also provide a great level of safety. When it comes to chartplotters Garmin has several to choose from. From the many different models that Garmin offers from the simple to the complex you’re bound to find one that will provide what you want.

One such Garmin chartplotter unit is the 192. This unit has a great screen that provides you with the information you need from the maps. Speaking of maps it’s nice to be able to have up-to-date maps and there are several ways to keep your unit up to date.

The Garmin 192 has high detailed blue chart cartography maps of the coastal United States along with Hawaii and Alaska built-in. If you live in another part of the world you can acquire the maps that you need to navigate the waters where you are. These maps provide accurate details for coastlines, port information, known boat wreckage and restricted areas.

You may prefer to get pre-programmed data cards that contain all the latest charts that you can take with you. Many people purchased the blue chart regions for Canada the Bahamas and charts of inland lakes in the United States.