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Wonderful Water Workouts

swimming kickboardSwimming is amazing exercise for pain patients. The benefits of swimming are:

  • Swimming burns calories and builds muscles.
  • The water provides natural resistance.
  • Water can relieve aching muscles and joints and give relief during the heat.
  • Swimming strengthens the neck and back muscles.
  • Swimming is completely low impact and is much easier on joints.
  • If the pool water is warm enough, the warm water can promote blood flow and improve healing if there has been an injury.

Swimming in a pool can feel comfortable but still provide a solid workout. Consider adding these components to some of your swimming workouts.

  1. Ambient music. If you are at a public pool, you are at the mercy of the lifeguard’s music selections. But any upbeat music keeps boredom at bay.
  2. A large visible clock is a great resource. Then you can keep track of time as opposed to laps, which can sometimes be difficult.
  3. If you vary your strokes with a few laps with a kickboard, you will get a very strong leg workout while giving your arms a bit of a break. This is also helpful if your arms or shoulders are weaker or in pain.
  4. Change your strokes. Alternate crawl, breaststroke and backstroke. If you are a particularly strong swimmer, you can throw in a butterfly stroke once in a while, too.
  5. Hate going back and forth? Tread water for a while. To make it even more of a calorie burn, tread water while holding water weights.

Swimming workouts can have endless variety and can be an enjoyable component of a healthy lifestyle.

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Swimming Away from Back Pain

floating childFor those who suffer from back pain, it is imperative to lead an active lifestyle.

Finding an exercise that maintains activity levels, burns calories and builds muscle is key.  Swimming accomplishes all three. Swimming takes all of the stress off of joints. And swimming can strengthen back muscles and core muscles. In addition, swimming has been documented to reduce back pain. 

But not all swimming is created equal.

If you are suffering from back pain, you should not begin a swimming regimen or any exercise routine without consulting your health care provider.

If you are cleared to swim, you may want to engage a coach, instructor or trainer to look at your stroke and to be sure that you are not twisting too much and are working efficiently.

The best swimming strokes for pain patients are the breaststroke and the backstroke. Both of these are better than the butterfly and crawl, which utilize a more “twisty” motion.

If you and your doctor decide that swimming is for you, start your exercise routine slowly and increase incrementally. According to the New York Times, “Japanese researchers looked at 35 people with low back pain who were enrolled in an aquatic exercise program, which included swimming and walking in a pool. Almost all of the patients showed improvements after six months, but the researchers found that those who participated at least twice weekly showed more significant improvements than those who went only once a week. The improvement in physical score was independent of the initial ability in swimming.”

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