Customer Reviews

Water Exercise : 78 Safe and Effective Exercises for Fitness and Therapy

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This book is excellently organized! Instructions are clear. Drawings aid understanding. Verbal description is followed by benefits of each exercise as well as precautions. Students AND instructors will appreciate the manner of teaching. Exercises are divided into beginning, intermediate, and advanced categories. Author not only tells WHAT to do, she also tells WHY. Third part of book provides specific programs for common injuries, listed by body part: e.g. lower leg-ankle-foot, knee, thigh-pelvis-hip, trunk & spine, trunk & shoulder, elbow & wrist. In addition, there is a chapter for special populations: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Parkinson's Disease, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Sclerosis. This is a book one could refer to time after time, for greater understanding and expertise!

My mom and I have been searching for a good book for beginners about water exercise and this is the best we've found. It has great pictures that show you how your suppose to perform each exercise. Detailed desciptions were also very helpful.We liked the outlined program.

I run an aquafit class for any age, but mostly seniors. Most of them have one of the "spasticity" diseases - eg. arthritis, stroke recovery, Parkinson's, fibromyalgia, etc. With the help of this book I have been able to create a program that addresses the problem areas and have found increased mobility and pain reduction in the participants. I recommend it to everyone.

We havet a lap pool in our home and actually wanted DVD to show us a few acqua exercises that would suit our needs (sports and medical injury), but as no DVD exists we searched for a book. There are many to choose from and in "reading through" some of them, decided on the Water Exercise because it covered a multitude of health needs. When it arrived we were pleased as it is extremely easy to follow and the illustrations are very helpful. We made the right decision!

The book is written simply and effectively in helping you understand how to do the exercise and the illustrations are good but I was surprised when I got it to see how many required equipment (like little hand paddles). I was hoping for just straight exercises with little to no pool aids needed. Otherwise it was good.

i had a hip resufacing done 5/08/2007; this book was very helpful in showing me exercises to add to what i already know toward rehab. well laid out with good pictures that help to illustrate the written text. this is a good buy for anyone who's looking for guidance during the hip surgery/rehabilitation phase.

This book has done wonders for me. I have a bad back and I am currently in physical therapy. I brought this book to my doctor and he highlighted the exercises that I should do and told me the ones I shouldn't. It's really nice to exercise the CORRECT way in the pool.

This book was fantastic. It has great exercises and therapy exercises for the water. I use them all the time now. I would buy it again if I had too.

Very helpful book. First class photos and diagrams make it simple to follow the instructor.

I purchased this book when I realized I would be doing aqua therapy for the first time. It has been a wonderful reference tool!