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Summer heat can exhaust us physically and mentally, and often the heat serves as a perfect excuse not to exercise. As this hot, sticky season blasts us with its full force, consider the benefits of exercising in water.Water aerobics is one of the best calorie-burning, muscle-building exercises you can do.

 

Benefits of exercising in water

• Stress on weight bearing joints is minimal, as in water we are buoyant and body weight is reduced about 90%.
• Burns twice the calories than exercises performed on land.
• Helps you maintain joint flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, and increase endurance.
• Combines every element of fitness, cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility.
• If you can not exercise on hard surfaces - participate in the water with no discomfort.
• The movement of a limb in water generates resistance that can be as high as 10-12 times that experienced while on land. The faster the movement, the more resistance is generated. By varying the speed of movement, the individual can exercise as hard as desired.

 

Water exercise is especially suited to people who are:

• Looking for low impact exercise
• Recovering after an injury or surgery
• Pregnant woment looking for a safe exercise option
• Wanting to lose weight, and increase or maintain their fitness level
• Suffering from conditions such as Arthritis, MS, Osteoporosis, etc