Your high school reunion is in 3 weeks—you want to look good.  Your niece is getting married next month–you want to look good.

Stress not!  Water aerobics to the rescue! While it’s obvious that aquacize equals lower impact, kinder to your knees and back, there’s some not-so-obvious factors that make water the ideal choice for those i-gotta-get-in-shape-quick life events or a longer term goal of reaching that healthy BMI.

Consider this:

Water is 12 times more resistant than air–-You gotta use a lot more ooomph to move a water molecule than you do a puny air molecule.  Translation:  Compared to a land workout, in the water you have to expend more energy.  So you burn more calories.  Yay!  And you burn more calories more quickly.  Double Yay!

Now mind you, I’m not talking about lazily floating around in the water.  I’m talking about really working it in the water–like you see in my Cardio + Core Combo downloads and DVD.  If you will do that, you’re gonna get a lot more calorie burn in a lot less time than you would on land.  For me personally, if i work it really hard, i can be done with my pool workout in 25 minutes.  Zip-zam-thank-you-ma’am…..i leave with a smile on my face and quite a few calories less!

Now consider this:

There’s no next-day soreness when you work in the water–Nothing shuts down a workout quicker than lactic acid.  It’s that icky burning sensation that stops you dead in your tracks.  And lactic acid build-up turns into soreness for up to two days after land exercise.  That soreness can de-rail even the most determined exerciser. 
However here’s what i love about the water.  It massages the muscles as you exercise them.  So there’s NO lactic acid build-up and NO next day soreness.  You won’t feel all burny and sore after water aerobics.  If anything, you’ll feel refreshed, like you just came off the massage table.

Because there’s no next-day soreness, you can jump right back into the pool on the next day, fresh as a spring daisy, and work it again and burn more calories again.  And the very next day, you can jump back in the pool and do it again and feel great.  And you can do that five days in a row.  And imagine how many calories you will have burned at the end of those five days.  And imagine how good you’ll feel as a well-massaged spring daisy!

So now you see the big picture…… 

Want to shed some pounds?  Target 5 days per week of water workouts.  There’s no soreness to hold you back.  Just 5 consecutive days of calorie-burning, muscle-massaging, fresh-as-a-daisy fun.

Short on time?  Jump in the pool.  You’re gonna get much more bang for your buck doing it in the water than in that flimsy thing called air.  Target 20 to 25 minutes of my Sue-styled kicking-it combos and, calorically-speaking, you’ll be a happy camper.

My final piece of advice….for that high school reunion, treat yourself to new dress because you’re gonna look so good you’re gonna want to flaunt it!  Yay!