Water Workout

Describes and illustrates a series of water exercises ranging from beginning to advanced levels, and outlines programs that concentrate on specific areas of the body.

Looking for exercises to improve your fitness, maximize your cross-training, or recover from an injury or condition—all with little or no impact? Water Exercise is your complete resource for fitness and rehabilitation exercises. Water workouts are a fabulous way to exercise, no matter your current fitness level. Water Exercise allows personalization of each workout plan: You can change the speed, intensity, or amount of rest based on your needs. Water Exercise is ideal for cross-training workouts and beginning to advanced fitness workouts. It will also help you recover from injury or manage a chronic condition. With underwater photos and simple instructions for each exercise, you will learn fun exercises in Water Exercise you can do in shallow or deep water. You’ll also learn how to use optional equipment such as foam noodles and water buoys to strengthen muscles and improve flexibility. Exercising in the water is effective because it offers a range of therapeutic and health benefits yet still improves all the components of fitness that you get from land exercise—with no impact. With just a pool and a swimsuit, you can strengthen, rehabilitate, and add variety to your workouts with Water Exercise.

Take your workout to the water! Possibly the world’s perfect exercise, water workouts provide a highly-effective, low-impact way to burn calories, build muscle, improve flexibility, and have some fun. International Swimming Hall of Fame board member and world masters champion Jane Katz uses a holistic approach to lead you to total body fitness, offering soothing and strengthening programs of exercises drawn from yoga, Pilates, tai chi, and popular land sports like skiing and golf. There are also high-intensity challenges and instructions for deep-water running and cross-training for athletes. Each exercise is accompanied by a simple drawing and step-by-step instructions for doing the move correctly. Programs for twenty-, thirty- and forty-five-minute workouts, including breathing exercises, warm ups and cool downs, are laid out to make it easy to dive right in. Individual exercises can also be combined to make a complete workout that is right for you. Dr. Katz uses toys and accessories, from old-fashioned kickboards to flashy fins, to make every workout seem like play. Full of suggestions to keep your program exciting and fresh, Your Water Workout is a complete guide to working out in the water for lifelong fitness.

THE POOL IS A GREAT GYM… FOR ALL AGES! You don’t have to be a swimmer or sprightly to experience the joys of water and the benefits of water exercising. In your own or the local pool, you have the best fitness medium imaginable. The pool is not just for kids to play around in, or for competitive swimmers only. Even if you can’t swim, it’s for you -- a fitness center that comes without embarrassment because you are doing something sensible that looks sensible! Use the pool as a gym for: ü general day-by-day fitness ü body building -- using even only old socks on your hands or feet! ü sports training and injury recovery ü pregnancy – gentle yet great-flexibility help ü aches and pains relief -- no matter what your age Or, simply to feel good. Or, going one step further: to get back to feeling good! Water exercising is also great fun: Do it to music. Do it in pairs or groups, or just indulge yourself. Get strong or try slimming with it. If you push against water, you will meet a smooth resistance that gives back what you put in. You feel that special ‘soft’ resistance that only water gives so soothingly and relaxingly. So, use it to benefit yourself or your loved ones or friends. Water is the only fitness ‘apparatus’ you need have. Be your own coach in your own pool.

Make a splash in your fitness journey with this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide to pool aerobics from best-selling fitness author Dr. Karl Knopf. Once used primarily for rehabilitation and exercise for seniors, water exercise has been proven to build strength, improve cardiovascular fitness and burn calories for people of all ages—all without the strain and trauma of land-based activities. With step-by-step instructions and clear photos, this flexible training tool will introduce you to the no-impact, total-body benefits of water exercise, including: Improving muscular strength Increasing flexibility Enhancing cardiovascular fitness Alleviating pain Rehabilitating injuries And more! Whether you’re a non-swimmer, an elite athlete, or someone with a chronic condition, Make the Pool Your Gym shows how to create an effective and efficient workout best suited to your needs.

"Do you want to burn fat without having to sweat? Or get toned without having to lift weights? If so, water aerobics is the perfect solution for you. Walk or jump in the pool, burn some calories, and have a whole lot of fun ... contains exercises that concentrate on toning your upper body and lower body, and that provide you with an excellent cardio workout to burn off those calories..."--Back cover.

"'Water exercises' introduces the numerous possibilities of how to keep fit in the water with the so-called fun- or aqua-noodle. In a shor introduction, the book explains the characteristics and the areas of usage of the aqua noodle. In the big practical section plenty of possibilities for exercises, usually with two variations, are introduced, in each case with accompanying photos and an explanatory text. The book is structed into six main fields: stretching, balance, endurance, muscle training, games & fun, and massage & relaxation. The clear structure makes it easy to findall the different exercises"--Back cover.