Bath and Body Works
Exercise in an aquatic environment can provide benefits not found in other areas and can advance individuals to their next level of muscle fitness and mobility sooner; it also act as a natural weight loss solution.
Bath and body works programs are not just for
grandmas riding foam floats. Water is good for athletic training, too,
and experts say more athletes are making use of it. Runners, tennis
players and other competitors find that training in the resistance of
water gives them more of a workout than using weights or treadmills,
said researcher Mary Sanders of the University of Reno, Nevada.
Benefit of water exercise
Compare the following estimates of calorie consumption for a 30 minutes workout:
- Land walking: 135 calories / Deep water walking: 264 calories
- Jogging on land 240: calories / Deep water jogging: 340 calories
Whether you are looking to improve fitness, lose weight, excel at your
sport, rehabilitate from injury, ease limitations of arthritis and other
medical conditions or just have fun, bath and body works is a great solution.
Research has proven that, as the physical improves, so does the mental, emotional, and spiritual. Some of these benefits are:
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Decreased: Stress, blood pressure, tension, weight, pain, body fat, impact on joints, risk of injury, and prescription drug requirements.
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Increased: Strength, flexibility, energy, range of motion, muscle tone, oxygen/circulation, endurance, balance, coordination, fun, self esteem, safety, and enjoyment of life.
- Enhanced: Feelings of well - being, sleeping patterns, recovery from injuries, social pleasures, and the reversing or slowing of ageing, both mentally and physically.
Bath and body works Success factors
- Your body is supported — making exercises easier and less painful while you are performing movements ranging from the simple to those that are nearly impossible on land.
- The buoyancy provided by the water helps to protect your joints from the shocking impact usually associated with exercising on land.
- Resistance of the water (hydrostatic pressure) against all of your motions resulting in higher workout intensities as compared to land exercises. A massaging effect is created when your muscles are surrounded by water.
- Water provides twelve per cent more resistance than movements on land - without the gravitational stress and pain.
- Water exercise is adaptable to everyone's desires, needs and abilities.
- Non-swimmers can safely participate.
- You are more likely to participate if you don't sweat or get your hair wet.
- Water visually shields your body - for those participants feeling uncomfortable or awkward in normal exercise environments.
- A variety of exercise equipment is available to assist with resistance and flotation.
- High calorie burning during and after a workout.
- In-door pools allow for year round exercise programs.
- Your heart rate is slower making water exercise beneficial for pregnancy, obese, and heart disease participants.
- Renews your energy level as it releases your stress and tension.
- Water exercise is wonderful for participants with arthritis, back or other joint problems.
Water Aerobics or Aquatic Exercises are superb for injury rehabilitation and maintaining fitness!
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- Build Muscle, Improve Flexibility & Increase Stamina with aquatic exercise and therapy
Aquatic exercise is the preferred therapy for many medical conditions.
Even top athletes integrate bath and body works into their training program
"You don't have to be a swimmer to benefit from an Endless Pool," says professional water therapist and trainer Leslie Krichko.
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The Endless Pool is ideal for bath and body works. Our customers use their pools for everything from rehabilitating broken bones to relieving the symptoms of arthritis and MS.
Weights and flotation devices are often used as aids for water exercise in an Endless Pool, too
Bath and Body Works is an anti-aging remedy:
Do you want to learn a safe and effective way of water aerobic exercise, that will help you live a longer, more energetic and independent life? Let internationally renowned aquatic fitness expert Ruth Sova show you how water activities will help you:
- slow the effects of aging
- improve how you feel and look
- safely increase your heart rate during exercise
- speed up your metabolism, so you'll burn calories faster
- enhance strength, flexibility, and endurance (arthritis treatments)
- gain more energy and vigor to enjoy other activities
- have fun exercising like you never thought you could
Water
Fitness After 40 book is probably the best resource available for
instituting a bath and body works program for older adults who seek
a new way of extending their health, fun, and longevity. - Walter
C. Johnson National Aquatics Section National Recreation and Park Association
