Video | Rebounder training, a shock absorber for joints – new to Asia, with first studio open in Hong Kong
Hongkonger Lucia Tam used a rebounder during rehabilitation after an injury, and was so impressed she opened a studio in Sheung Wan, where her Bounce classes offer a fun way to get fit and strengthen your core
With the lights down low, everyone starts jumping to the beat of the music, while LED lights beneath our feet flash in different colours. This sounds like a disco, but it’s not. We are in a gym, and rather than the dance floor, we are balancing on rebounders.
This is LED Game Night, one of 10 different classes offered at Bounce Limit, a rebounder training studio in Sheung Wan.
A rebounder looks like a mini-trampoline, but the technique of jumping on the two is quite different. On a regular trampoline, you aim to jump as high as you can; with a rebounder, the aim is to push down into the surface, for a solid workout that can even be used for rehabilitation purposes.
It was, in fact, an injury that first got founder Lucia Tam into rebounding training.
“I was injured with a fracture to my foot and for the longest time, it didn’t heal,” Tam says. Then she started balancing on a rebounder as part of her physiotherapy. “Within a few sessions, it was healing faster than with any of the rehabilitation programmes I’d been doing.” The former professional dancer began researching rebounder equipment and, in 2014, opened Asia’s first rebounder training studio in Hong Kong.
One major benefit of working out on a rebounder is that it absorbs the shock, lessening the impact on knee and ankle joints.
