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How to Build Hip Strength with Six Directional Movement
When it comes to building strength and mobility, moving in six directions isn’t just effective—it’s essential. Too often, our bodies fall into repetitive patterns, focusing on just one or two planes of motion. But true, balanced strength comes from training the body...
Weight Training in the Pool: Choosing the Best Hand Buoys
When it comes to water exercise, hand buoys—or foam dumbbells—are a staple for many. These popular pieces of equipment can elevate your workout by providing resistance, improving muscle strength, and enhancing your overall fitness. But are you using the right hand...
What’s New Inside Wavemakers (September 2024)
I'm SO excited to announce a massive update inside the Wavemakers membership. I've been listening to your feedback and making the biggest updates since the app launched in 2022. Why? Because it's about your results. Making sure you get your best results is the reason...
How To Use A Pool Noodle For Maximum Results
The pool noodle might just be the most underrated piece of equipment for water exercise. This simple foam tool transforms how your muscles work by adding buoyancy and resistance, offering a surprising challenge that can lead to impressive strength gains, bone...
Step Up Your Water Workouts: The Essential Guide to Water Exercise Shoes
When it comes to enhancing your water exercise routine, you might not immediately think of shoes as a crucial piece of equipment. But wearing shoes can significantly improve your water workouts by providing added resistance, support, and stability. Let's dive into why...
Water Weights for Water Exercise: The Secret Tool
When you think of water exercise, water weights might be the first thing that comes to mind. They can be amazing tools to add resistance and intensity to your workouts. But there's a lesser-known tool that can absolutely revolutionize your water exercise routine and...
The Best Low-Impact Exercise To Reduce Knee Pain
Staying mobile as we age is key if we want to keep up with our younger family, those exciting vacations, and a weekly round of golf. Aches and pains might seem like an inevitability, but they don't have to be. One of the most effective exercises to help us with...
7 Steps to Getting Rid of Knee Pain with Water Exercise
Have you ever had pain that made you stop everything? I have. Earlier this year, a panicked jump to avoid stepping on a snake left me with a severe calf strain. Everything in my life was on hold. Of course I immediately wondered: how can water exercise help? My...
How Your Workout Intensity Can Change Your Life
When it comes to exercise, intensity can completely change the focus and results of your workout. Whether you're jogging in the pool or performing a yoga pose, how intensely you approach the exercise determines which aspects of fitness you target—cardio, endurance,...
What Is Exercise Intensity And How Does It Affect Your Results?
When it comes to workouts, we can too often equate intensity with sheer hard work, believing that pushing ourselves to the limit is the only way to achieve results. But what if we start to see intensity as a spectrum? What if intensity doesn't necessarily mean pushing...
What Is Functional Mobility and How Do You Find It?
As we age, maintaining mobility and living pain-free becomes increasingly important. For those over 50, functional mobility is the key to staying active, independent, and living your best life. Whether you're a seasoned water workout enthusiast or just dipping your...
3 Ways High Intensity Water Exercise Helps Ease Back Pain
Water exercise is often noted as a safe movement regime for those seeking relief from pain. The slow-paced, gentle movements are easy on the joints, thanks to water's buoyancy that supports your muscles. However, did you know that high-intensity, cardio-focused, and...
Busting The Myth: Why Slower Exercise Isn’t Always Easier
When it comes to water exercise, or even any exercise, a common misconception is that slow movements are easy and less effective. But this couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, moving slowly in the water can reveal our weaknesses, enhance muscle control, and...
How To Start A Water Walking Club In 5 Steps
Water walking offers a fantastic way to exercise, stay cool, and make new friends. It's not just about staying fit; it's about the amazing benefits that come along with it. Let’s dive into what water walking is, the benefits, and why forming a water walking club might...
7 Ways To Improve Mobility
Mobility is the ability to move freely and easily. If you want to be fast in a 5k race, prevent a fall on your next vacation, or avoid next-day body aches after gardening, you need to train for mobility—stretching alone is not enough. Muscles are much like an elastic...
5 Therapies To Complement Your Water Exercise For Maximum Results
Movement as we get older can too often be riddled with aches and pains. Isn't this just the life for us as we age? Is the privilege of age enough, even if we can't put our shoes on without sitting down? It's my mission to challenge this—I want us to get MORE mobility...
The Number 1 Tool In Water Exercise (It’s Not What You Think)
So many people—too many people—approach water exercise thinking the only way to get meaningful results is by using all the gear; foam dumbbells, pool noodles—the bigger the better. If you were on land, you’d almost certainly never pick up a 20-pound weight before...
Exploring the Power of Self-Assessment in Your Fitness Journey
How often do you rely on external metrics to gauge your movement progress? Maybe it’s the number on the scale, the time it takes to run a mile, or the weight you lift. While these measurements can provide valuable insights, they often overlook a crucial aspect of our...
How To Unlock Your Body’s Potential With Mindful Water Exercise
In a world where fitness trends come and go, there's a truly timeless element to water. It's an environment that supports all movement, giving us the power of both resistance and support. But water exercise has been stereotyped as an overly-gentle exercise routine,...
3 Ways To Use Water As The Ultimate Training Tool
Whether you already workout in a pool or not, the benefits are clear: by moving your limbs against the resistance of water, you engage multiple muscle groups, improving overall cardiovascular fitness and strength simultaneously. But sometimes it can feel challenging...
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