Water aerobics: benefits for overweight people

By gab

Overweight people know that the only way to lose weight is having a negative energy balance. For an effective weight loss you need to burn more calories than you take in. Your weight loss plan most probably would consider a reduced calories diet to cut on unnecessary intake and an increased physical activities to burn more calories.

Both of these regimes can be quite hard to follow and sometimes frustrating if they do not deliver what they promise. Aqua aerobics provides the perfect solution for you that have the need to burn extra calories. The resistance the water puts against you during water aerobics exercises, such as aqua jogging for example, makes it more effective in burning calories than light jogging. Moreover, the whole body is used during such routines helping in stimulating Read more »

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Aqua aerobics: why to include water aerobics within your swimming exercises.

By gab

Aqua aerobics, also known as water aerobics, is a fun and effective fitness routine for everybody who enjoys water exercises and good company. It includes exercises routine to be performed in swimming pools. It could be your community swimming pool or your private back yard or home swimming pool.
Typically, it is run as an instructor led class in your local pool, and includes water aerobics exercises done standing in the water, chest deep, with the support of some auxiliary water aerobics equipment specifically designed to increase the water resistance. This type of water training is aimed at improving both strength and endurance and it provides the opportunity to do aqua exercises even if you do not know how to swim.
Aqua aerobics: effective swimming pool exercises for anyone.
Swimming pool workouts have one great advantage over land based body fitness exercises, they make use of the water resistance and support. The resistance helps you to improve your strength and overall cardiovascular conditioning, providing a great weight loss exercise and lowering your blood sugar levels. The water support lowers the risk of injuries Read more »

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Lose weight swimming is possible and it is fun.

By gab

Lose weight swimming is misunderstood. If you feel overweight and you are searching for the best way for weight loss swimming is the right anwer.

In this article we will tell you:
-why swimming is efficient to burn calories
-how to lose weight swimming
-what swimming routine works best for weight loss

Lose weight swimming: why swimming burns calories as jogging?

Swimming burns calories at a high rate because while swimming you activate all the major muscle groups in a uniform way. Calories consumption studies have computed the energy spent by an average swimmer to be approximately 3 calories a mile per pound. This means swimming is as effective as jogging in terms of burning calories during exercising. Once you have built endurance and the ability to swim at a good pace, swimming has the advantage to be easy on your joints since the water around you sustains your weight. Working out without the risk of injuries makes you do it more regularly and longer with the result that you can lose weight swimming easier than with other land based activities. And, did I mentioned it is fun and relaxing?

How to lose weight swimming

Now we know, swimming is a great way to burn calories. But, is it easy to lose weight swimming? As for any exercise aimed for loosing weight, the key factor is in the energy balance. You lose weight swimming only if the amount of calories you intake daily is less than what you burn during the 24 hours, day in and day out. There is no Read more »

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Swimming is the Best Physical Exercise for Pregnant Women

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What is the best exercise while being pregnant? Is swimming during pregnancy advisable? What is the best training for pregnant women?
In this article we will cover why is swimming a great exercise to do while waiting for your baby and which swimming training is best while being pregnant.
Why is swimming a great physical exercise while pregnant?
Swimming is a great total body workout because it trains all the major muscle groups and your cardio-vascular system at the same time. It is one of the best fitness activity you can carry on throughout your entire life and it works great even during pregnancy. Swimming or doing any kind of water fitness, like water gym for example, has the advantage over land based exercises to be performed in a virtual weightless environment. The water sustains Read more »

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Gym Workouts for Swimming Faster and Longer: An Introduction

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Do you want to swim faster, longer and improve your all-around fitness? The correct gym training can provide you with the extra strength and muscle conditioning you need to meet your goals. What you need to take care of is to pick gym workouts routine which works for your swimming and not against it.

In this post we will see: what are the benefits of the right gym workout for swimming and how to design gym workouts routine to improve your swimming performance.
The benefits to swimming of a workout in the gym.
A gym workout routing focused on increasing strength and endurance, maintaining
flexibility and not largely increasing muscle size is an optimal support for improving swimming performance.
To get the full benefit the gym training needs to be designed to improve strength were it matters most
for the specific stroke you are interested in. For example, for influencing your crawling the training in the gym should focus on triceps
and upper back muscle groups which provide the biggest part of the propulsion while crawling. Dips and pull-ups exercises with repetition number around 15-20 are
an optimal choice. Gym workouts, however can backfire at you if not done properly. Swimmers need to keep the muscles fiber long and flexible to stretch out and get the water far in front at them. Make sure to run your set of repetitions slowly Read more »

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Interval Training for Swimming is a highly effective workout.

By gab

In our post on lose weight swimming we mentioned that interval training is probably the most effective way to lose weight swimming. It is also one of the most effective swimming workouts to achieve both muscular and cardiovascular fitness.
In this post we will explain:

- How does interval training works?
- When is an interval training swimming routine good for you?
- How you can create a swimming interval training plan that works best for your level of fitness?
Interval Training for Swimming: the basics
Interval training is generally defined as a workout routine consisting in a high intensity work followed by a low intensity one in a repeating routine. This training workout can be applied to any kind of sport or physical activity, including swimming, by healthy people at any kind of fitness level. The level and length of the high intensity part needs to be set accordingly to the goal of the workout and to the fitness of the athlete. From a muscular metabolism point of view, interval training alternates anaerobic (Greek for without oxygen) and aerobic (Greek for with oxygen) workout phases. During high intensity activity, your muscles are consuming oxygen at a higher rate than the cardiovascular system is able to supply. While working in lack of oxygen the muscles Read more »

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Weight Loss

By gab

Effective weight loss routines and workouts to be performed in the water. Tips and tricks to get your weight where you want it to be without getting injured.

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Swimming Training

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Your personalized swimming training and workout to get the best out of your time spend in the pool.

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Swimming Gym Workout

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Gym workout for supporting your swimming. Tips, equipments, routines and tricks to get the best out of your effort in the gym to help improve your swimming performance.

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Rehabilitation

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Senior and Rehabilitation training and techniques to work at your best with the supporting help of the water.

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Interval Training with Gymboss

For your interval training use the Gymboss Interval Timer and keep your focus only on the exercise, not on your clock.

Tabata Jogging:

set your first Gymboss Interval Timer time interval to 20 secs; set your second Gymboss time interval to 20 secs push start and start improving your anaerobic fitness level.

Swimming interval training:

Select one Gymboss Interval Timer time interval option and set the time to your repetition time. Choose the number of repetitions per set and start swimming.

My sets: 10X100m at 90 secs 20X50m at 40 secs

Water aerobics: benefits for overweight people

Aqua aerobics: why to include water aerobics within your swimming exercises.

Lose weight swimming is possible and it is fun.

Swimming is the Best Physical Exercise for Pregnant Women

Gym Workouts for Swimming Faster and Longer: An Introduction

Interval Training for Swimming is a highly effective workout.

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