If you’re on the hunt for low-impact, varying in intensity, fun fitness pool workouts then water aerobics is for you! Aerobic exercises are a phenomenal way to get in shape, while enjoying the social aspect of working out in a class.
Aqua aerobics classes are a fabulous way to mix up traditional gym workouts with the wondrous advantages of water. It only takes a few aqua aerobics workouts and you’ll see a big difference in your overall fitness levels. Also known as water aerobics – or sometimes even waterobics – typical classes will include all the exercises that you would expect in a ‘dry’ class. However, there are added bonuses when you exercise in water.
Water Aerobics Enhances Your Balance and Coordination
As you grow older, you could experience reduced coordination as well as balance. Water exercises go a long way towards assisting you to build stability as well as expand your muscle strength for better coordination. Also, the water is a safe environment whereby you’re in control of all physical exercises as opposed to exercising on dry land.
Aqua Aerobics Is A Low-Impact Exercise
Unlike other types of exercises, water exercises offer you a flexible environment for your workouts. You don’t need to worry about falling and hurting yourself when you are in the pool. In addition to this, the water’s buoyancy reduces the impact that exercises have on your joints and muscles.
Water Aerobics Helps To Build Endurance
Unlike traditional weights exercises, which require the human body to push and pull against the weight – in addition to gravity – water resistance is a more natural resistance which needs the body to strain through the water as opposed to against it.
The more your muscles are challenged, the bigger they get. In addition, the stronger they become. As your muscles get bigger as well as stronger, they can also work out for longer, or in other words, stronger and well-trained muscles directly lead to increased endurance.
Aqua Aerobics Increases Flexibility
As the body is dependent on water resistance during water aerobics exercises – which requires movement in various directions while adapting to the push and pull of water – the joints effortlessly increase their range of motion. A study which was conducted in 2013 found there to be a substantial increase in flexibility after exposing a group of older adults to water aerobics exercises.
The water adds plenty of resistance to any movement which you make as it really pushes and pulls your joints as well as body parts around in directions that they aren’t used to moving. Slowly, over time, they will actually get used to those movements.
Moreover, this resistance also forces you to push back to adjust to the pushing and pulling motions of that are exerted by the water. This continual pulling, pushing, and overall movement causes your joints to grow to be flexible. The water also is keeping your joints in constant motion, thus keeping you mobile and stopping you from getting ‘rusty’. Being moved in directions which you aren’t used to going in increases flexibility. It is almost like a light form of stretching or even yoga.
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