9 benefits of exercising in water:

  • There’s low impact on your joints: This decreases the impact on your joints, so when you swim or exercise in the water, you have a lower risk of injury.
  • It does a better job at keeping you cool: Exercising in the water helps the body cool off faster, reducing risk of overheating.
  • Water has built-in resistance: Because you’re moving your body through water instead of through air, you’re working harder. This resistance is great for building all-around strength and endurance.
  • You can adjust the resistance: Depending on your speed, position, or form in the water, the resistance is dynamic. For example, the more streamlined your swim stroke, the faster you’ll travel with less resistance. If you’re jogging or running in water, particularly if it goes higher than your waist, you’re getting much more resistance.
  • It gets easier over time: The more knowledge and skill you have with respect to swimming, the more efficient your body becomes when moving through the water. This translates to less energy and effort exerted, and greater speed.
  • You can incorporate rest: You don’t have to stop exercising in the water to give your body a rest during a workout. If you’re swimming, you can add resting strokes like sidestroke or elementary backstroke until you recover.
  • You can increase intensity slowly: The benefit of swimming is that you can make gradual changes to your routine without much effort. Simply increase the time spent swimming continuously and take shorter rest breaks—or replace your breaks with rest strokes as you build up your swimming regime.
  • It’s great for keeping joints limber and toning muscles: Since exercising in the water is so low impact, your joints stay nimble. 
  • It offers support for the whole body: If you’re not a swimmer, you can still use the water for gentle exercise: do some walking workouts waist-deep in a swimming pool to take the pressure off your joints and back while still getting movement.


Talk to your chiropractor to find out what types of exercises are right for you.

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