Water Exercise

by Melissa Layne

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 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 .

Genres: Health

248 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2015

Reviews

[Parisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book for water exercises for all group of ppl from beginner to advance, u can learn exercises step by step

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love going to aquafitness classes all summer. But once the classes are over I tend to forget at least half of the moves. So I was happy to find this book.

This book is divided into four sections. The first is about getting started. The second section is about choosing exercises. The third is for exercises for common injuries (which was great was I have a left knee that is easily aggravated). And the last section has basic, intermediate and advanced exercises.

I really liked this book. And I enjoyed the diagrams. I think that I would have liked a bit more detail about each exercise. But overall the pictures really helped. One thing that bothered me was that I did not see mention of wearing aqua shoes. To me this is a must. Maybe they weren't as popular when this book was written?

Overall this was a very helpful book.

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best water exercise books that I have come across! If you are a water exercise Instructor, this should be on your shelf!

[Barbara Mohs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good clear descriptions of water calisthenics. I was hoping for some routines or circuits including cardio, but exercises can easily be combined to create a good workout.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting names for movements like bicycle noodle riding, however, I figure all permutations of movement directions are covered so why not name it?

(via library's new books table)