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Your swimming pool is your best fitness friend. Low impact and enjoyable, swimming achieves all the benefits of a gym workout without the stress. According to the experts at Fitness magazine, you can burn close to 300 calories in just 22 minutes with a water workout routine. This one is based on a 25-yard-long pool lane.
- Freestyle 4 lengths (2 min.)
- Alternate freestyle/backstroke 8 lengths (4 min.)
- Use a kickboard 4 lengths (4 min.)
- Freestyle using a pull buoy floating device held between legs 4 lengths (2 min.)
- Alternate freestyle/backstroke 8 lengths (4 min.)
- Your favorite stroke (moderate pace) 8 lengths (4 min.)
- Sprint (favorite stroke ) 2 lengths (1 min.)
- Freestyle (cool down) 2 lengths (1 min.))
For more water fitness tips, go to usms.org or bioguard.com.
Enhance the benefit of a water workout with water weights. For lap swimming try Finis Lap Track, an underwater lap clock that counts the number of laps you swim, records the time for each lap and estimates the amount of calories burned. Learn more at finisinc.com.
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