Aqua Arobics

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"Swimming to Supplement Your Training"

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The article "Swimming to Supplement your Training" is about how water aerobics can truly help you overall. Water aerobics helps develop and maintain cardio-respiratory fitness and strengthens your muscles too. But most of all it is great on your joints. Water aerobics is great for so many people from the young training athlete, to the injured patient in rehabilitation and even the aging population. This article focused more on the athlete that wants to increase or diversify their workout regime.

If you were to run on pavement outside, every time your foot hits the pavement it creates a shock of five times your body weight that is sent up through all your leg joints and into your spine. But in water you can reduce that shock wave up to 85%, reducing the extra stress and protecting your joints. By no way is it an easier workout though, your muscles are forced to work harder because they are under constant resistance from the water. This means you're burning more fat and toning your muscles more then doing the same thing on land. Also the water pressure on your lower body pushes more blood volume to your upper body, this in turn makes your heart work harder, and you burn more calories. The article then goes on to tell that aqua jogging is just like jogging on land but it is done wearing a buoyancy belt around your waist and jogging in shallow to deep water. They suggest to start with a few minutes daily and work up to 20 minutes a few times a week. All in all running in water is beneficial to your joints, your muscles and even your heart.