Pool Exercise CD

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If you're looking for a "cool" way to get aerobic exercise on a hot summer day, a pool exercise CD just might be the tool you're looking for.

Aerobic Water Exercise

Aerobic exercises performed in a pool offer a fun way to stay fit and cool at the same time. Plus, changing up your exercise routine by using a pool in the summer months can make your summer exercise routine less of a grind. It's also a great total body work out that burns body fat and builds strength. As an added benefit, pool aerobics has been shown to help people who suffer from debilitating conditions like arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

While swimming is good exercise, performing water aerobics provides a way to achieve total body fitness that's easy on the joints and causes less muscle strain while also increasing flexibility. In fact, for many water aerobic routines you don't need to know how to swim. Several exercises are performed in waist-level high water, or perhaps chest high. There are some exercises like water jogging that do require deeper water. Following an instructor's cues on a pool exercise CD makes a pool workout easy even if you’re a novice. If you can't swim, be sure the exercise CD you purchase does not require you to be in the deep end.

Benefits of Pool Exercise

When using a pool to stay fit, you can adjust exercises to fit your fitness level, and working against the water provides natural resistance in all directions. This one factor makes pool exercises a great choice for those rehabilitating from an injury or surgery, or who suffer from chronic conditions like arthritis. Other benefits include:

You only have to support 50 percent of your body weight when performing an exercise.
Risk of injury is less because of its low-impact nature
The natural resistance mentioned above helps establish muscular endurance and tone
For many routines, no special equipment is needed.

Aerobic Water Exercises

Aerobic exercises performed in pools build strong legs and hip muscles while increasing cardio-respiratory fitness. To start, perform these exercises in the shallow end of the pool and, as your fitness level improves, gradually move to deeper water:

running
jogging
walking
kicking
jumping

But pool exercises offer a lot more options to mix up your workout. Most routines last about 45 minutes including the warm-up, cool-down and stretching. You can purchase pool exercise CDs that teach beginner, intermediate and advanced water aerobics. When you reach the advanced level, it will include things like dance and calisthenics which are sometimes performed to music.

Pool Exercise CD Resources

When shopping for a CD to use for your pool routine, you'll find a variety of options. Be sure to research what the CD offers and that it meets your fitness level. Here are a few resources to get you started.

Aqua Combo Splash DVD with Bonus Audio CD

If you buy this DVD, it comes with a bonus pool exercise CD that includes a choice. You can follow instructional cues along with music or just listen to the music. This Pilates Pool Party bonus CD features ground-breaking total body toning movements based on:

yoga
dance
Pilates

Aqua Attack Audio CD

This 43-minute CD is available for around $20.00. It features energetic music designed to motivate and inspire. For this one, too, you have the choice of following precise vocal cueing or listening to music only.

The Noodle Workout Video and CD Set

This is another DVD/CD set. This one is different in that it uses the popular floatable aqua Noodles as a fun piece of exercise equipment.

E.S.P. Noodle Workout Audio

The E.S.P. Noodle Workout is 43 minutes long and also uses the Noodle as a piece of exercise equipment. Verbal cues accompany motivational music and sound effects, or you can listen without the cues once you learn the moves that take you through interval cycles.

Don't Put Off Summer Exercise

It's easy to say it's too hot to exercise, but there's nothing more inviting that a refreshing pool. Take advantage of your pool to keep up with your exercise and fitness goals even in the summer.

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