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"Swimming to Supplement Your Training"

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The article "Swimming to Supplement your Training" is about how water aerobics can truly help you overall. Water aerobics helps develop and maintain cardio-respiratory fitness and strengthens your muscles too. But most of all it is great on your joints. Water aerobics is great for so many people from the young training athlete, to the injured patient in rehabilitation and even the aging population. This article focused more on the athlete that wants to increase or diversify their workout regime.

If you were to run on pavement outside, every time your foot hits the pavement it creates a shock of five times your body weight that is sent up through all your leg joints and into your spine. But in water you can reduce that shock wave up to 85%, reducing the extra stress and protecting your joints. By no way is it an easier workout though, your muscles