Owning a hot tub means you have instant and constant access to a structure that can provide relaxation, stress relief and health benefits offered by soothing heated waters.
The time spent in a hot tub or spa and the benefits provided cannot be denied.
The heat of the water and its buoyancy offers pain relief to individuals stricken with sore joints, arthritis or even diabetes as it aids in circulation.
Remember that water exercises are similar to running or weights in the fact that they still involve movement.
Do not start any exercise routine without first asking your doctor if you're healthy enough and if there are specific steps you should be taking to make certain you work out in a healthy way.
Water workouts need to have warm up exercises just as on the ground ones do as a way to loosen up your limbs and stretch your muscles.
Some warm-ups include side bends, shoulder shrugs, torso rotations and arm circles.
Side bends involve putting your hands on your hips, bending side to side from the waist on both sides and bending backward and forward.
Shoulder shrugs will also loosen the limbs.
After this do some arm circles and torso rotations.
To do an arm circle you will extend your arms out to the side and rotate them forward and then reverse.
A torso rotation will have you standing with your feet shoulder width apart, rotating to the left and then the right as far as you can.
After you have completed the warm ups, perform one or all of these exercises: jackknife, bicycle and leg extensions.
To do the jackknife, you will sit on the hot tub seat, supporting yourself on your arms, keeping your stomach muscles taut and bending your legs up to your chest.
Then extend your legs and stretch your toes.
You need to concentrate on using your stomach muscles for all of these exercises, not your back muscles.
Now try the bicycle.
Grab the bar in the hot tub and lift your legs to rotate them just as if you were riding a bicycle.
Do not forget to try the side leg extension.
Sit on the seat and support yourself on the bar.
Extend your legs straight out in front of you, using your taut stomach muscles you will want to spread your legs out with your toes pointed.
Bring your legs back together, flexing your feet.
Try these exercises for 20 reps at a slow pace to start out then add more speed (making sure it is controlled speed for maximum benefit) and then add more reps as you work up.
An exercise in a hot tub or swimming pool has the resistance of water working to tone and strengthen your muscles in a low impact manner.
Do not forget that even though you are working out in water, the heat from a hot tub can lead to over exertion and cause you to become dehydrated.
Keep cool water at hand so you do not dehydrate.
The time spent in a hot tub or spa and the benefits provided cannot be denied.
The heat of the water and its buoyancy offers pain relief to individuals stricken with sore joints, arthritis or even diabetes as it aids in circulation.
Remember that water exercises are similar to running or weights in the fact that they still involve movement.
Do not start any exercise routine without first asking your doctor if you're healthy enough and if there are specific steps you should be taking to make certain you work out in a healthy way.
Water workouts need to have warm up exercises just as on the ground ones do as a way to loosen up your limbs and stretch your muscles.
Some warm-ups include side bends, shoulder shrugs, torso rotations and arm circles.
Side bends involve putting your hands on your hips, bending side to side from the waist on both sides and bending backward and forward.
Shoulder shrugs will also loosen the limbs.
After this do some arm circles and torso rotations.
To do an arm circle you will extend your arms out to the side and rotate them forward and then reverse.
A torso rotation will have you standing with your feet shoulder width apart, rotating to the left and then the right as far as you can.
After you have completed the warm ups, perform one or all of these exercises: jackknife, bicycle and leg extensions.
To do the jackknife, you will sit on the hot tub seat, supporting yourself on your arms, keeping your stomach muscles taut and bending your legs up to your chest.
Then extend your legs and stretch your toes.
You need to concentrate on using your stomach muscles for all of these exercises, not your back muscles.
Now try the bicycle.
Grab the bar in the hot tub and lift your legs to rotate them just as if you were riding a bicycle.
Do not forget to try the side leg extension.
Sit on the seat and support yourself on the bar.
Extend your legs straight out in front of you, using your taut stomach muscles you will want to spread your legs out with your toes pointed.
Bring your legs back together, flexing your feet.
Try these exercises for 20 reps at a slow pace to start out then add more speed (making sure it is controlled speed for maximum benefit) and then add more reps as you work up.
An exercise in a hot tub or swimming pool has the resistance of water working to tone and strengthen your muscles in a low impact manner.
Do not forget that even though you are working out in water, the heat from a hot tub can lead to over exertion and cause you to become dehydrated.
Keep cool water at hand so you do not dehydrate.