Water Based Exercise
Water Based Exercise
Coming into the summer months, swimming is a great way to exercise and stay cool at the same time! Not only does it provide great cardiovascular and resistance training, is it also a fantastic way to relax. Water based activities are perfect for people of all fitness levels and provide the following benefits:
- Water is 800 times more dense than air. Land based exercise presents the risk of potential injury to joint and soft tissue due to the repetitive strain imposed by body weight. The buoyant force of water can reduce body weight by up to 90% to protect against stress from body weight exercise. It is therefore an ideal form of exercise for the elderly, obese and those with soft tissue injury.
- Due to the density of water, it provides full body resistance during exercise. It allows for high energy expenditure due to this constant resistance.
- Certain exercises performed in water require greater muscle activation to work against the resistance provided by the water. Walking in water, for example requires greater use of the abdominals and back muscles to keep proper posture, more so than walking on land.
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