Fit and Healthy Lifestyle tips Friday is here.
Today’s Tip:
Benefits of water aerobics exercises
Water aerobics is also called aqua fit, aqua aerobics and sometimes also called “waterobics”. It’s resistance training in a swimming pool. Not only will you do the normal walking/running forward and backwards but you’ll do jumping jacks, leg kicks and lifts plus use water dumbbells underwater and more. You can work all areas like quads, glutes, back, shoulder, arms, etc. The benefits to water aerobics exercises is that it doesn’t strain the joints and bones because of buoyancy and it keeps your body cool. It’s a low impact exercise. All you really need is a swim suit but some people use water shoes and also swim caps to keep hair out of their face.
We have attended a few aqua fit classes at our gym and honestly we didn’t feel we got much out of it. I have heard it’s a great workout where it’s possible to burn 300 + calories. I didn’t wear my heart rate monitor so I cannot tell how much I burned. I much prefer to get in pool and do my own water aerobics exercises rather than be part of an aqua fit class.
Do you take water aerobic/aqua fit classes?
. I was so excited! Hubs has been setting it up and playing with it for a while and I just did my Wii Fit Mii profile. Might try some of the exercises in a bit but I don’t want to overdo it with my back especially because of this next bit of AWESOME info but first