Fun Trampoline Games to Play-trampolinegeek

Overview

Trampolines can be more than just a source for fitness by jumping up and down. People can play unusual games on the trampoline for hours. The extra spring that trampolines give during jumps provides more challenges and fun to players looking to play new games while exercising at the same time.

Snake

One player acts as the snake and weaves a jump rope back and forth across the surface of the trampoline exercises. All the other players jump around the trampoline while avoiding the jump rope. If the rope touches someone on the trampoline, he becomes the new snake.

Crack the Egg

A player volunteers to be the egg and sits in the middle of the trampoline holding her knees to her chest with her arms. The other players jump around her until she finally lets go of her legs. She can then choose the next player to be the egg. Take caution with this game and do not jump too close to the egg to ensure safety.

Simon Says

One player starts as Simon, and everybody else has to follow him. Simon performs a trick on the trampoline, and the rest of the players have to copy it. If a player performs the trick incorrectly, he is eliminated from the round. The last player remaining becomes Simon next round.

Add-on

In this game, players keep adding to a set of tricks. One player performs a trick, and then the next one does that trick plus her own. Each player keeps adding, and the list keeps growing. Players lose when they perform the wrong trick or do the list of out of order. The last player remaining wins.

The Trampoline Workout

Get ready to jump! You can torch 160 calories in half an hour of jumping on your mini-trampoline exercises, and it's low-impact, too.

"You get an amazing workout and it’s so much fun," says Basheerah Ahmad, founder of the fitness consulting firm 360 Transformation. She encourages celebrity clients like Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks, and Vivica A. Fox to use a mini trampoline in their exercise routines.

Fit these moves into your fitness regimen at least three times per week. For best results, repeat the sequence of three moves at least three times.

Basic Trampoline Bounce

The basic bounce "seems simple, but it burns a lot of calories," Ahmad says. It also tones your quads, glutes, and calf muscles.

1. Stand on the mini trampoline with your feet about 6 inches apart.

2. Bend your arms, keeping your elbows at your sides.

3. With a slight bend in your knees, lightly bounce up and down. Your feet should come about 6 inches off the trampoline.

4. Repeat 30 times.

Trampoline Prances

"This move will get your heart rate up and give you a great workout," Ahmad says.

1. Stand on the mini trampoline with your feet 6 inches apart.

2. With your hands on your hips and knees slightly bent, bounce on the balls of your feet, and alternate raising your right and left knees to hip level (mimicking the "knees up" running-in-place exercise from gym class).

3. Repeat 60 times (30 lifts per leg).

Trampoline exercises Squats

"You have to engage your core muscles to perform this move on an unstable surface," Ahmad says.

1. Stand on the mini trampoline with your feet together and arms at your sides.

2. Jump up, spread your feet just wider than shoulder width, and land in a squat position with your knees bent and thighs parallel to the ground -- as if you were going to sit down in a chair. Your arms should be straight out in front of you.

3. Lightly bounce back to your starting position and repeat 20 times.

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