Water Aerobics - How To Lose Weight And Tone Your Body In The Water


Book Description

"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 Exercise


Book Description

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.




Make the Pool Your Gym


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Water workouts provide a safe and fun way to lose weight, build muscle, and heal from injuries with zero harmful impact. Featuring clear instructions and helpful line drawings, Make the Pool Your Gym provides guidance for everyone to design their ultimate wet workout plans to get fit and feel great.




Aqua Fitness


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Aqua Fitness offers cardiovascular, strengthening and stretching workouts that are highly effective, versatile and, above all, pleasurable. More and more popular with everyone from baby boomers to top athletes who want to cross train, it is low impact and uses water resistance to really work the body. Provides all the information you need to make aqua fitness work for you. - Full-colour step-by-step photographs of shallow, and deep water programmes, plus exercises designed to enhance performance in sports such as swimming, golf and jogging. - Ideal for the pool or the sea and featuring blissful relaxation routines drawn from shiatsu and t'ai chi. - Suitable for all ages and levels, from beginners to instructors.




Water Fitness Progressions


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Challenge and encourage the participants in your water fitness classes with over 150 ready-to-use lesson plans based on sound scientific principles and the concept of periodization.




Water Exercise


Book Description

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.




Water Exercises for Osteoarthritis


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A richly illustrated book with all of the elements that go into a water exercise program for osteoarthritis: equipment, warm-ups, stretching, aerobic exercises, strength exercises, balance exercises, exercises focusing on the abdominals, neck exercises, cool downs. Also included is a wealth of up-to-date information on medications, vitamins and minerals, herbs, diet, and nutrition, and working with an exercise companion.




Water Fitness Lesson Plans and Choreography


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Water Fitness Lesson Plans and Choreography helps new instructors learn the basics of class organization and keeps veteran instructors out of the proverbial teaching rut. This reference contains 72 lesson plans for shallow and deep water-each including a warm-up and cool-down, variations, choreography, and modifications. A total of 576 exercises are described and accompanied by 253 photos that depict the key features and the corresponding choreography. The lesson plans are organized into two sections: shallow and deep water. Each lesson plan for shallow water has a corresponding lesson plan for deep water. All that instructors have to remember are the specific exercise modifications to take the routine from one end of the pool to the other. This allows instructors to learn, remember, and feel comfortable offering a variety of class formats. Over two million people participate in water fitness, so good water fitness instructors are in high demand. Water Fitness Lesson Plans and Choreography will help new and veteran instructors create well-organized classes so that participants meet their objectives, come back for more, and have fun!




Water Exercise


Book Description

The journey for Water Exercise began years ago with Jodi Stokes' late father, when she first developed a program to help him manage post-polio syndrome symptoms. Through her years as a trainer, Jodi developed the exercises detailed in this book to bring enjoyment to people of all ages as they moved their bodies to enhance muscular strength, build endurance, and gain many other inherent health benefits. Now, she delivers her thirty years of exercise science education and award-winning experience right into your hands with step-by-step instructions-including exercise durations, body targets, and photos of every movement to show you what to do. Jodi continues to follow a holistic approach to exercise as a mobile concierge fitness professional helping people to work out in their homes and pools.




Noodles for Dumbbells


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Because your health and fitness is no joke, Noodles for Dumbbells is designed for individuals who desperately need strategy and motivation to overcome the metabolic breakdown that too often accompanies our middle years, hastening the aging process. Here, you will find all the tools you need to slow or even reverse that process and benefit from a real and lasting 'lifestyle upgrade'. In these pages, you will find lot's of TIPS and TRICKS from an accidental athlete. Janna shares her professional knowledge and experience to free you from the drudgery of yo yo dieting and the misery of boring exercise routines that are hard on your joints. This book has the power to change your life, because you can do this, and it's fun!