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 ...

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 ...

Water/aqua aerobics for 10 or more weeks at a time can trim waist size and aid weight loss, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Open This ...

Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, "involves activities that use large muscle groups rhythmically and continuously, raising the heart and breathing rates," explains Gontang. He says that the word ...

It's so hard to stay motivated to exercise in the summer, when all you want to do is sit in front of the AC vent with a cold beverage. That's why we (Angela and Alicia) decided to try a water aerobics ...

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 ...

If the heat is getting to you and making it hard to hit the gym, you might be looking for a refreshing exercise. People who suffer from osteoarthritis can turn to swimming as a safe exercise that’s ...