Water Workouts: A Guide to Fitness, Training, and Performance Enhancement in the Water - Softcover

There's a lot of mythology surrounding swimming and water exercises: that water work is only for senior citizens, arthritis sufferers and rehabbing professional athletes; that it's not an efficient way to build cardiovascular endurance or burn fat; that it's inferior to land-based exercise programs like running and weight training. Water Workouts not only attacks those myths, it shows how to use a swimming pool and a few pieces of equipment to improve everything: strength, endurance, flexibility, muscularity. If you don't mind getting wet, this is one of the best workout manuals you'll find.

Today more and more coaches, trainers, doctors, and therapists are telling their athletes, clients, and patients to "get wet." For cross-trainers, fitness enthusiasts, senior citizens, parents, children, and people with arthritis or chronic knee problems, water workouts are the way to get fit and healthy.This clear, step-by-step book covers equipment, technique, workouts, and rehabilitation in aqua aerobics, deep-water running, swimming and more, and also includes timely, pertinent information on heart-rate monitoring, nutrition, flexibility, and strength. (51/2 X 81/4, 160 pages, diagrams)