Water aerobics is a low-impact workout that helps build strength, burn calories, and relieve stress on the joints. Here are 7 exercises to get you started.

Aerobic exercise, or cardio, elevates your heart rate with movements that activate your body's large-muscle groups. When done in the water, this type of workout offers many proven benefits, including ...

To best understand water aerobics, Schenone likes to break it down word by word. "The term 'aerobic' in a fitness setting means the exercise promotes any type of cardiovascular, or heart, conditioning ...

Active Aging is weekly series that provides wellness tips and creative living ideas for the active aging lifestyle. Water aerobics is a fun way for aging adults to stay active and fit. It’s also ...

If the treadmill or elliptical doesn't appeal to you, you can don your swimsuit and try water aerobics. The pool-based exercises are particularly beneficial for older adults and others who don't want ...

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, when many of today’s older adults were in their 40s, aerobics classes were all the rage. Nowadays this demographic is still taking aerobics — the only difference is that ...

Purposeful splishing and splashing can help you trim your waist size and drop excess pounds, a new evidence review has concluded. Water aerobics led to about 6 pounds of weight loss and more than an ...

Everyone knows that some of the keys in maintaining a healthy lifestyle include eating a balanced diet, getting enough sleep, and exercising. While any kind of movement and exercise can be beneficial, ...

Tom O’Connell has given up walking on his treadmill in favor of another exercise that is much better for his joints and muscles, he said. “It gets the heart rate up, and it’s easier on the joints,” he ...

Both aerobic and anaerobic exercises are beneficial for a person’s health, although each benefits the body in different ways. Aerobic exercises are endurance-type exercises that increase a person’s ...