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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...
3 Steps To Move In Your Feel-Good Range
Is one side of your body stronger than the other? It's a normal thing. Habitual ways of moving result in muscle imbalance; carrying groceries, typing on mobile devices, preparing a meal—all things that tend to be done one-side dominant. This becomes problematic when...
Get Better Results From Every Workout With This Simple Upgrade
Feel like your workouts need a tune up? You’re not alone. Everyone benefits from changes in routine. In this article, you’ll learn our Wavemakers method of moving in your feel-good range to get your best results. I’ll share how simple changes in your approach to...
7 Benefits Of Water Walking
Water walking, a seemingly simple yet highly effective exercise, is gaining in popularity as people discover the amazing benefits. This low-impact activity offers a refreshing twist on traditional walking, providing a whole new dimension to your fitness routine....
How to customise your workouts to get bigger results
Public service announcement: your ability to move better is already inside you, all you’ve got to do is FEEL it. Water is a unique place to exercise. Buoyancy provides freedom to move with ease, and moving against resistance helps you get stronger. The question is:...
3 Ways To See Better Results In Water Exercise
My exercise mantra has always been simple: Exercise Should Feel Good. But it wasn’t until more recently I learned how to use these feel-good sensations to help my students and clients using Wavemakers to get their best results. When you’re following a well-designed...
Exercise Should Feel Good
Your new exercise mantra needs to be: Exercise Should Feel Good. But why? And how do we implement this into our every workout? Whether our recent COVID crisis has seen you confined to your home and experimenting with new ways to keep moving, or you're back to being a...
What is an Aquatic Health Club?
Imagine a warm smile and friendly greeting as you walk in the door with your swim bag. The front desk staff knows you by name, and always looks happy to see you. “Hi Kathy, how are you doing today?” Here, you have the opportunity to learn to swim, take your swimming...
Aqua Fitness: Master the ONE THING industry leaders have in common
Master the ONE THING aqua fitness industry leaders have in common. The one thing all industry leaders do exceptionally well is vary their workouts. It’s the key to results. But it’s also easier said than done! It's not an accident. Top water exercise professionals...
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