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The Complete Waterpower Workout Book: Programs for Fitness, Injury Prevention, and Healing
The definitive guide to a fitness and healing breakthrough from the leading water exercise trainer and a renowned sports physical therapist
Millions of people are discovering the benefits of working out in water—Olympic athletes, dancers, fitness enthusiasts, workout rookies, pregnant women, seniors, even those recovering from injuries or surgery. Working against water’s natural resistance makes for a healthier, more balanced workout than is possible on land—with virtually no risk of damage to the body. Water exercise is so safe that doctors and physical therapists are prescribing it as part of injury rehabilitation programs. The Complete Waterpower Workout Book
Waterpower and Deep Two basics programs, one low impact and the other no impact, can be tailored to provide everyone with the right fitness challenge.
Total Both programs build aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscle strength and tone, flexibility, good body alignment, and agility.
Sports and Dance Athletes and dancers can work on the strength and skills they need without the overtraining injuries so common on land.
Water Those who have been injured or who have undergone surgery can use the water healing workouts in this book, developed with orthopedic surgeon Dan Silver, M.D., to speed recovery while maintaining or even improving fitness.
With easy-to-follow instructions and two hundred photographs, this is the one book you need to fully participate in this vitally important wave in fitness.
Millions of people are discovering the benefits of working out in water—Olympic athletes, dancers, fitness enthusiasts, workout rookies, pregnant women, seniors, even those recovering from injuries or surgery. Working against water’s natural resistance makes for a healthier, more balanced workout than is possible on land—with virtually no risk of damage to the body. Water exercise is so safe that doctors and physical therapists are prescribing it as part of injury rehabilitation programs. The Complete Waterpower Workout Book
Waterpower and Deep Two basics programs, one low impact and the other no impact, can be tailored to provide everyone with the right fitness challenge.
Total Both programs build aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscle strength and tone, flexibility, good body alignment, and agility.
Sports and Dance Athletes and dancers can work on the strength and skills they need without the overtraining injuries so common on land.
Water Those who have been injured or who have undergone surgery can use the water healing workouts in this book, developed with orthopedic surgeon Dan Silver, M.D., to speed recovery while maintaining or even improving fitness.
With easy-to-follow instructions and two hundred photographs, this is the one book you need to fully participate in this vitally important wave in fitness.
- GenresNonfiction
408 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1993
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About the author
Lynda Huey
15 books6 followersWhen I got my first book contract with Quadrangle, the New York Times Book Company, I was twenty-seven years old. That was 1974 and I was going to be an author!
A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman was published in 1976 and was well before its time. People didn’t care about women’s sports, but it became a bestseller on the librarians’ lists.
Zan Knudson was the author of dozens of books. She read my autobiography and called me. She had the idea to take my new water exercise program and turn it into a book. New American Library (NAL) published The Waterpower Workout in 1986. It was the first exercise book published in American to use African-American models, including Olympic sprinter Evelyn Ashford, NFL tight end Bernie Casey, and NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlain.
When The Complete Waterpower Workout Book was published by Random House in 1993 it was already in demand. That book is still in print today and is the best-selling book in the field of water exercise and water rehabilitation. It was translated into Spanish and German.
In 1994, my long-time close friend Wilt Chamberlain had arthroscopic hip surgery with orthopedic surgeon Robert Klapper, M.D. and told him about my pool rehab program. Before long Dr. Klapper and I were planning a book about hips for the lay public. Heal Your Hips: How to Prevent Hip Surgery – And What To Do If You Need It was published by John Wiley & Sons in 1999. That book is still in print today and continues to sell.
A few years later we wrote Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery – And What To Do If You Need It. Our knee book was published in 2004 by M. Evans and has been translated into Spanish.
A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman was published in 1976 and was well before its time. People didn’t care about women’s sports, but it became a bestseller on the librarians’ lists.
Zan Knudson was the author of dozens of books. She read my autobiography and called me. She had the idea to take my new water exercise program and turn it into a book. New American Library (NAL) published The Waterpower Workout in 1986. It was the first exercise book published in American to use African-American models, including Olympic sprinter Evelyn Ashford, NFL tight end Bernie Casey, and NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlain.
When The Complete Waterpower Workout Book was published by Random House in 1993 it was already in demand. That book is still in print today and is the best-selling book in the field of water exercise and water rehabilitation. It was translated into Spanish and German.
In 1994, my long-time close friend Wilt Chamberlain had arthroscopic hip surgery with orthopedic surgeon Robert Klapper, M.D. and told him about my pool rehab program. Before long Dr. Klapper and I were planning a book about hips for the lay public. Heal Your Hips: How to Prevent Hip Surgery – And What To Do If You Need It was published by John Wiley & Sons in 1999. That book is still in print today and continues to sell.
A few years later we wrote Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery – And What To Do If You Need It. Our knee book was published in 2004 by M. Evans and has been translated into Spanish.
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