I will admit that exercise and I were not always a match made in heaven. To be perfectly honest, I was not too fond of P.E. when I was growing up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never good enough. Sports did not come easily to me, and I got to the point where I quit trying. Yes, I was that one who was always the last to be picked on any team! (Even in Dodge Ball, and I was really good at that game!!)

Exercise has been a way of life for me for around sixteen years now, and in the past year, I have increased my workout time to at least thirty minutes per day, often more like forty or forty-five minutes. I rebound for thirty-five minutes most days, and most recently, I have added nine rounds of Tabata to that to give me more or a workout. (Tabata, in my case, means one minute of running on the rebounder as hard as I can and one minute of recovery jumps.)

On most days, I follow up my rebounding with seven to fifteen minutes of strength and/or cardio training.

Attempting to determine how many calories I burn in any given workout can be a difficult task sometimes. I am most of the time told that I burn one hundred calories on a trampoline for a nearly forty-minute workout. Pilates and strength training can burn anywhere from thirty to just over a hundred calories. I use my app “Lose It” to “guestimate” how many calories I have burned. It’s usually pretty close, if not a little bit under.