Aquaexercise for All
Experts in fitness aren’t surprised about the health benefits of water exercise and many individuals have found it just the ticket to get in shape. Classes offered vary from traditional water aerobics to bench stepping, yoga, tai chi, deep water running and kickboxing. Your body is buoyant in water, so you don’t hit the bottom of the pool as hard as you do with land exercises. Therefore, impact on joints and muscles is reduced. If you have injuries, keep your joints slightly bent instead of straight. This helps to distribute the water pressure throughout the limb, rather than directly on the joint.
Just being in the water causes you to exercise. The continual water pressure that pushes against you while you move makes you push out harder to continue movement. Water exercise is natural resistance training as there is continual resistance to each move you make, creating stronger muscles. Water activities like aqua aerobics, bench stepping, deep water running and kick boxing all are great cardiovascular conditioning workouts. They also naturally increase muscular strength, endurance and flexibility. Finally, they are good calorie burners if done at a high enough intensity.
Yoga, Pilate’s and Tai Chi have hit the water too. Aqua Yoga is a harmonious workout, combining the gentle qualities of yoga poses with the relaxing ebb and flow of the water. The water actually can help support the body, easing wear and tear on the joints and increasing balance so performing the poses is a bit easier than on land. Aqua Pilates othen combines the use of tubes to stengthen the core muscles with some cardio so you get the best of both worlds. Finally, Aqua Tai Chi can be described as a meditation of movement involving gentle and fluid exercises that use the water to overcome some of the clumsiness, stiffness and heaviness experienced on land. The fluidic environment helps to free the mind and emotions so the individual is more in tune with the inherent fluidity inside their bodies.
As you can see, water exercise is a booming workout form with new ideas coming out all the time. There are also many products you can buy such as buoyancy and back support belts, shoes to give you better traction on the pool bottom, hand paddles for upper body resistance exercise and weighted belts to increase your workload. So take the plunge and try poolside instead of the gym for your next workout.
Dr.lanny Schaffer
http://www.articlesbase.com/yoga-articles/aquaexercise-for-all-85179.html
I have a bet on that I WILL attend Yoga and Aquaexercise. Trouble is I?
hate organised things and know I need to tone up, but come home from work and settle down to a good read or watch telly. I am pig lazy. But I am not so daft that I know I will enjoy it, but can I get out of bed in the mornings!!!! No, and don’t want to pass on the company and laughs. I have also been asked to a girlie lunch which I usually avoid unless I am, well refreshed. If I do all this, it will reader honestly CHANGE MY LIFE because I get asked to loads of interesting things in my job, but then sort of flag at night, can’t sleep and the vicious circle has gone on all my life. The girls are brilliant and I know I would enjoy it, what the hell is wrong with me. I really like my own company so much and my boyfriends I prefer to spend time with him. Please only serious answers cos. It took guts to write this down.
You are in a rut hunny, all it takes is someone to actively frog march you to the local pool or yoga class where you can begin to get yourself into good habits because that’s all it is.
I can never get up on time in the mornings and I hate to go out in the evening in the winter…and I just love my own company.
You are quite normal…you just need a quick kick up the backside like we all do at this time of year!
References :
It’s ok that you prefer your own and your boyfriends company. I am very outgoing at work, because I have to be. But off-duty I find it very taxing to make myself interested in other people and want to go out all the time! It may sound really wierd (i’m only 21 too), but I just get bored really easily of that kind of thing.
If you enjoy your life at the moment, carry on with it. Do what you want to do, and not what everyone else THINKS you want to do.
As for the exercise thing, whats wrong with a nice, exhilarating walk with your bf for an hour or so in the evening? Or get one of those mini stepper things and exercise before you leave for work in the morning?
Good luck in your decision and your life anyhow.
References :
For the exercise stuff, throw your workout clothes in the car and go straight from work. If you go home first, you’re just going to go into your regular routine and it’ll never work.
For the social interaction stuff, you’re only creating your own roadblocks. There is no trick to it, just go out and do it. You’ll get more comfortable after the first few times and begin to relax and feel like part of the group. Some of us have to work at this, and for others it’s just natural. If you don’t work at it, you’ll spend your whole life sitting at home, asking these same questions year after year.
References :
Hahaha, you sound like me! I hate girlie days out, I think I have had bad experiences in the past! And I hate organised sport, yet I need to get fit and get swimming more. I am hoping that if I join the gym then my frugal sense will kick in and I’ll go every day – I hate wasting money!
I think you just need to take the bull by the horns and go for it, just to get you out of yourself. I am the same, I like to spend time with myself or maybe a single special person rather than a group. But I think you need to start sharing your fabulous self out with everyone! Kinda like having the best box of chocs and not letting anyone have a taste
I have recently made a lot of new girl friends, which is great, but think everyone’s too shy to ask anyone to hang out more than we actually do. However, as Morrissey once said, "shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to". So I am taking the bull by the horns and am going to start making more hangout dates. Hell, I’m even considering throwing myself a birthday party, and that NEVER happens!
P.S. If you happen to be a Capricorn, then don’t worry, things are on the upturn
References :
there is no problem with just wanting time to your self and your boyfriend my fiance and I actually enjoy imensley our time together and we actually hate to go out and share any of it with other people but every once in a while it is good to go out and mix things up a bit if you know that you will enjoy going out to a girlie lunch than do it and if you know you will enjoy going to yoga and aquaexcersise classes then go and enjoy them just make sure that you set some time every day to just yourself and try something new
remember if you don’t like it you cqan always quit it
References :