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On a warm summer day, water is nice for taking a cool dip on your inflatable alligator,

hopping into a boat for a spin around the lake, or floating down a lazy river with a raft

and a cooler full of your choice beverage.

But water is also a great tool for fitness and for giving your body a fabulous calorie burn with very low joint impact.

So in this episode, you're going to learn why water fitness works, how to exercise in the water, the crucial water exercise equipment you need, and my favorite

all-time, high-calorie burning water exercise routines. Water, like air, is made up of a bunch of

random molecules floating around. It just so happens that in water, these molecules are more

closely packed together and form a more dense environment,

an environment that makes it pretty tough to swing your arms and legs around, especially when compared to air.

Now, in exercise, we like to sound smart by breaking exercise into three types of movements,

isotonic, isometric, and isoconetic.

Now, don't run away. I'm going to tell you what these are.

In an isotonic exercise, you move your muscles at varying speeds, like during a biceps curl.

In an isometric exercise, your muscles don't move, such as when you push against a car that

just won't budge no matter how hard you try.

And in an isoconetic exercise, your muscles move at a constant speed. In an isoconetic

exercise, no matter how hard you work, whichever force you're pushing against pushes back against

you just as hard. When you move in water, you're exercising isoconetically. If you try to swing

your arms and legs quickly, the water pushes back at you and you can only

move your body at a controlled constant speed.

Because of these isokinetic properties, it's tough for you to move spasticly and get out of

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