Pool Exercise
Since water is buoyant, it reduces body weight about 90%. So the stress on the weight bearing joints is reduced. A workout in water would not leave you feeling sore and stiff. Instead, it relieves pain and sickness. Swimming exercise helps you maintain joint flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, and increases endurance. Sometimes, swimming skills are not needed for water or pool exercises. That is because the exercises are done in water up to chest level. The resistance of water coupled with its buoyant nature provides an ideal workout. Water and pool exercises combine every element of fitness, cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility.
While doing exercises in water, follow the interval training principle. Workout until you become a little breathless, slow down, then work again. Such an exercise routine builds up the body without tiring it.
