For all you cripples out there...

[keepitlow]

I see as lot of posts here from cripples. These 3 machines are great for when my back or legs are injured. Of course, sometimes I am messed up on top and bottom ends, and can hardly move, so then I just watch TV. (Extreme sports DVD's.) But that is rare.

http://www.biodex.com/rehab/cycles/cycles_130feat.htm

http://www.treadwall.com/products/tread ... m6-gallery

http://www.nordictrack.com/webapp/wcs/s ... 1_-1_19554

If you got the $$ and have the room buy these for your crippled up body. Sure the C2 is great for when all systems are go, but I found I need many areas to exercise in as I am prone to injuries and other problems as I age.

When you get older, there is nothing left to spend the dough on other than fun, pleasure and good health (and keep the pleasure in check or it can be unhealthy.)

[snowleopard]

Oh yeah, if you are incapacitated to any degree a Nordic Skier is a must have

Prat.

[keepitlow]

Oh yeah, if you are incapacitated to any degree a Nordic Skier is a must have

Prat.

Absolutely Prat (easy does it that is)

Now if you go at the Nordic like a bat out of hell, then all bets are off with cripples.

I had back and knee issues and could not use a bike, jog or treadwall. But I could use the skier

I am lucky to have almost every type of machine at my disposal. So I TEST them all when my body gets our of whack to see what does work.

[keepitlow]

...BTW rebounding can be good if your borderline crippled and jogging is out for you.

http://www.healingdaily.com/exercise/re ... health.htm

[Montanaandy]

Interesting. Back when I was a kid we called it jumping on the trampoline but of course it was not a mini-trampoline like the one pictured. Here my mother was always worried that I was going to break my neck on the edge and end up paralyzed (or "crippled" as you love to say) but little did I know that I was staving off cancer, arthritis, and detoxifying my body.

The article takes pains to point out that women in particular should bounce on the mini-trampoline (I could not bring myself to type mini-tramp) so that their breasts can bounce all over the place and assist their lymphatic system. I didn't catch the article author but I am assuming it is Dr. Hugh Hefner or Dr. Larry Flynt...

[mccartjt]

That link on "Rebounding" may sound left field however having bulged a disc in my L5/S1 joint because of a bad rowing technique. I found that link interesting, in fact there are some chiropractors that recommend bouncing on an inflated ball to "Oxygenate" a bulging disc back to health. So the rebounding idea may not be so wacky after all.

[Montanaandy]

Bouncing on a trampoline or as you mention on an inflated ball may indeed do wonders for a nagging back but it is not going to do anything for your lymphatic system, et. al which is what I was alluding to in the earlier post. Andy.

[keepitlow]

Bouncing on a trampoline or as you mention on an inflated ball may indeed do wonders for a nagging back but it is not going to do anything for your lymphatic system, et. al which is what I was alluding to in the earlier post. Andy.

Sure it does. Your insides get massaged as you bounce. The ball? Well, maybe not enough stress on the body to work on the glands...I dodn't know. But you can feel it on the tramp.

If you got it real bad, then you can't bounce much as bouncing hurts. But RB'ing is still a good option for those with low to moderate problems. I like jogging and HIIT best, but sometimes my body is messed up and RB'ing is it for the jogging replacement. and soemtimes can't even do that if it hurts to move.

Here is something for the really decrepit.

http://www.allfit.com/index.html

Was trying to get my mom to buy one for my failing father in L.A. But it was no go with her. It would not matc her idea of what a pretty house should look like.

He kept failing terribly and eventually died suffering many years. Maybe it would not have saved him, but it would have added another dimension to his health other that lying in bed 24 / 7 for years.

Here is what the super cripples use to get going on a treadmill...if they are lucky.

http://www.techforltc.org/product_image ... System.jpg

[Montanaandy]

" Your insides get massaged as you bounce (you) can feel it on the tramp. " Pure Malarky. Lymph nodes/glands don't derive any benefit from a person "bouncing around". Granted any physical activity is good or better than remaining sedentary but to ascribe improvement in lymphatic health to bouncing on a trampoline is foolhardy.

[keepitlow]

One other thing that is useful when crippled. I did 30 min at the pool today. Have been nursing an injured ankle that got hurt in base jump training. Ankle is no good for jogging. But worked fine with swim fins.

[keepitlow]

" Your insides get massaged as you bounce (you) can feel it on the tramp. " Pure Malarky. Lymph nodes/glands don't derive any benefit from a person "bouncing around". Granted any physical activity is good or better than remaining sedentary but to ascribe improvement in lymphatic health to bouncing on a trampoline is foolhardy.

What is fool hardy about it?

I'm telling you it works. I'm not saying it is THE BEST thing for the lymp system. But it is A THING that stimulate that area as well as offer other areas of exercise.

But I always tell such detractors..if you don't like it...don't do it.