For many seniors, weight-bearing exercises are not feasible. Water exercises, by contrast, allow a person to exercise every muscle and every joint in the body all at the same time, while causing one’s body to be buoyant, which reduces stress and strain on muscles and joints. This is also important for seniors who may have the strength to participate in “land exercises,” but whose joint pain presents another challenge to this method.
Other benefits of water exercise include:
Below are two aquatic programs that can be implemented in a municipality to eliminate certain barriers to exercise.
