Aqua Fitness is a comparatively new trend of therapy, performed in a swimming pool with warm water. This is both fun and fitness with a splendid effect on your body. Resisting water and training the buoyancy is a useful workout, which gives your heart and lungs a challenge. Combining muscle endurance, strength and cardio exercises the aqua fitness is suitable for all levels of age.
One of the widely used aqua exercises is the aqua circuit, a great way to invigorate your fitness and tone in the water by various aerobic and resistance exercises. Water running is another successful method for active body treatment, making you work in deep water with a buoyancy belt. These are excellent elements for those that need rehabilitation, but also for fitness enthusiasts, and are incorporated in the aqua aerobics or presented as separate classes.
Aqua Spinning
This is a new trend at the field of the water sports and combines the traditional biking with foot thrust exercises in a pool. Aqua spinning can be performed in a pool of either ordinary water, salt or thermal water; the movements may include both pedaling forwards and backwards, thus creating a successful rehabilitation therapy. The exercises produce a hydromassage effect on the body and strenghten the legs and buttocks, as well as invigorate the work of heart and lungs. By each lesson you stretch more your muscles and reduce the presence of lactic acid. Aqua biking eliminates cellulite and reduces weight fast and effectively, but in the same time treats well the aesthetic problems and streamlines the body shape.
Aqua Kickboxing
The basis of this sport combines kickboxing workout and aqua aerobics to result in a fun workout that will make your exercise rather pleasant than rigorous. Aqua kickboxing is a great way to take advantage of the cardiovascular exercises and intense aerobic workouts including elements of strength training and martial arts. Like aqua aerobics and aqua spinning, this sport is conducted in waist- or chest-deep water.
It is recommended that you consult a doctor before starting aqua kickboxing classes, unless you are in a top physical condition and have already trained some type of aerobic or anaerobic exercise. If you are not well prepared physically, there is a certain risk of injury in this sport, so it is important to be trained by experienced instructors who are aware of the body limits and correct stretches. You should find the intensity level that suits best your current state of fitness and gradually adapt to the moves of the next level of intensity.
Aqua kickboxing provokes you to resist the water, including moves that are slower but more intense and effective than the workout outside water. Each lesson features a great number of kicking and punching strikes, but emphasizes on strength training and cardiovascular exercises rather than focusing on martial arts training. Besides the buoyancy effect there are great advantages of aqua kickboxing, such as reduced risk of impact injuries (e.g. joint injuries), compared to the kickboxing workout.