aqua aerobics

My boyfriend has been going to an aqua class every Sat. morning and he enjoys it.

its gonna be my first class tomorrow, so excited, i not been swimming in two years!! anyone else out there doing silly little classes like me to try n get fitter?

YAY for you...um, but I would NEVER call them silly lil classes.... it's an AWESOME cardio workout depending on your instructor and how much you put into it. I LOVE My water....so calming so intense, so invigorating....

I jump around to different instructors to really get all the goodies from each of them. My class tonight is I have to say the craziest of them all. Sally is a former floor aerobics instructor...so really does it different than many of the others. She has a tamborine (lil kids version which makes it even more hliarious!!) and really gets us in the spirit...her music choices ROCk. From fast past River Dance to water kickboxing...I feel like the hour flys by....never anyone without a smiling face through out the whole hour....we all love her for how hard she works us. But at the end when you finish you don't feel pain, you feel from the tip of your head to the bottom of your feet....a complete body workout.

I do hope you love your class and that the instructor is good one! A year ago I could NEVER have worked out like I do now....so I never take it for granted and feel so much success in where I am now...and can only imagine where I'll be 6 monthes to a year from now!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Please consider taking a large water bottle with you...so many folks don't thinking 'hey I'm in the water'...what do I need water for. :noway:

The you work hard, you sweat hard (and the rest of swim in it..:noway: :laugh: ) but I drink bottle of it to rehydrate and several more after I get out of the pool.:drinker:

Have fun have fun have fun

Please share tomorrow or later tonight how you enjoyed it....:drinker:

I did water aerobics over the summer to add some variety to my workouts and found it to be very strenuous...not heart pounding, sweating strenuous, but tiring...especially for the arms. I just use the equipment that looks like dumbbells but made of foam.....

wow...but aren't those misleading...:laugh: But anything you use underwater really does give a great workout...love the deep water workouts!! After being in a water class for awhile you build up strength just as you would lifting regular weights...so maybe try it again and take it slower and you'll build up those arm muscles. Trust me last year I thought I was gonna literally dies just taking the gym tour.:noway:

I started out with slow paced classes...um, yes:blushing: arthritis classes etc. as I had no clue where I fit in as far as what I could do...I think I truly underestimated myself and quickly jumped into regular classes.

If a person has not used certain or any (:laugh: :blushing: ) muscles in quite sometime (I'm talking about me a year ago here), wow, you feel like a noodle in that your entire body hurts and I just kept going and wondered it I would die there in the water...:laugh: ok, not literally but well I did wonder if I was having a heart attack when we did underwater workouts...I then ask the instructor if she felt like she was having a heart attack (hey ya gotta know my humor:noway: ) and she say YES!! Went on to explain that when you workout underwater you are really pushing yourself in a very different way.

Ok, just another short lil post from me:laugh: :laugh: :drinker: :drinker:

I just started my plan today. I do not have the money to go to any classes right now, so I am doing water aerobics on my own with my three year old son. He weighs 32 pounds, so I lift him out of the water and back in. I also do exercises where I push him away and then pull him back. To exercise my legs I do squats in the water. I also jump up and down all around the pool for about 15 minutes and tread on water for a while. Today is the first day of my whole routine officially, but I have been doing it most of the summer with my son. I enjoy it because it isn't as hard on my joints, but I realy feel a sense of accomplishment. I hope you have a great time and enjoy it. I got in an hour of exercise today and loved every minute of it.

You don't really need to know how to swim...especially if you use some sort of floatation device (foam barbells, noodle, that thing that floats that ties around your waist) even in the deep water where your feet won't touch...you'll be fine!!! DIVE IN :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: