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Lucknow: To lead a healthy lifestyle exercise is must. But by exercise we don't mean that you have to sweat gallons at gym or run a marathon to get into shape. Working out can be fun if you inculcate this healthy habit in your daily life and start doing it with things you like.

In summers people love to swim and swimming in itself is a pretty much good workout but what if we tell you some health benefits you get while you are having fun in water filled pools.

Here are some amazing health benefits to get you motivated to jump in the pool:

Whole Body Conditioning

Working out in water gives you more resistance thus allowing for more intense workouts than on land. You can burn a lot more calories in water just by walking or running. For maximum impact, try freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke swimming styles so that your whole body workout.

Less Injury Concern

As water is known for its rehabilitation properties. It can improve use of affected joints in people with arthritis or chronic diseases without agitating symptoms. The water resistance also enhances body awareness, which can assist with maintaining proper posture and a sense of movement within space during activity.

The depth of water should be between waist and chest high, especially if balance is a concern. While working out in water it will support you throughout all your movements thus you don't have to worry about getting injured or hitting the ground.

Low Impact

The upward force in water, buoyancy helps to take pressure off of the joints thus making your movements smoother and keeping it low impact. It also can reduce body weight, allowing for people of all sizes to maintain a safe workout.

Good for Cardiovascular Health

As we have mentioned above, water is known for its rehabilitation properties.Just being in the water is known to reduce high blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels. Swimming also reduces mental stress and keeps you refreshing. The resistance in water makes simple activities like water walking hard and it also make your internal organs, including your lungs work harder than they would out of the pool.

Increase muscle strength

As water flows in multiple directions, the resistance in the pool can range from four to 42 times greater than air, ensuring the body’s muscles get a rigid workout. According to a study regular aquatic aerobic exercise can give you significant gains in strength, flexibility and agility.