Water workouts help you gain resistance training or get a cardio workout while sparing your joints from impact. Though gentle on the joints, some forms of water workouts can be more demanding than their land-based counterparts, such as deep-water aerobics versus aerobics done on land, thanks to the water resistance. Speedo USA manufactures equipment used during water workouts.
Water Walking and Jogging
Speedo recommends using an aquatic fitness belt to increase the protection to your joints when you do aqua exercises. Water exercise alone such as aqua walking or jogging reduces shock impact you your joints by 85 percent. A fitness belt further reduces the impact. When you wear an aquatic fitness belt to walk or jog, begin in shallow water. Keep your arm and leg movements coordinated as if you are jogging regularly. Start with short sessions and gradually build up to 20-minutes per bout of exercise, up to four times a week. When you progress to deeper, neck-high water, your fitness belt will help keep your body upright.
Aerobics
Use a fitness belt to help you stay upright during deep water aerobics, usually performed in armpit-deep water. With water aerobics, you perform a variety of rhythmic leg and arm actions. As with the land-based counterpart, the aim is to keep your heart rate up during the workout. Deep-water aerobics are more physically demanding than shallow-water aerobics.
Strength Training with Gloves
Use the aqua fitness gloves manufactured by Speedo to add intensity to your upper-body strength-training in the water. Use the gloves when you work your biceps and triceps, for example. Stand in waist-deep water with your arms down and palms facing forward. Keep your elbows close to your body as you raise your forearms to waist level. Then lower your arms back to your sides. Also use fitness gloves when water walking to increase the resistance as you move your arms, recommend the experts at MayoClinic.com. Adding water shoes to help you maintain traction is a good idea if you are using fitness gloves and water walking.
Water Weight Workout
Use Speedo water weights, which are barbells made of foam, to create resistance for strength-training exercises in the water. Begin with arms to your sides. Hold the dumbbell's bars with palms facing up. Raise your forearms to your waist level with straight wrists. Turn your barbells over so your palms face down. Push down until your arms are straight by your sides. The experts at MayoClinic.com recommend doing 12 to 15 repetitions, or going until you are fatigued.
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