We have all heard about (and many of us use) aquatic therapy for rehab, but have you considered the hydrotherapy pool?  If you are looking for a way to design intense workouts that don’t lead to soreness or risk injury, then water workouts are a great idea.

Working out in the pool has many benefits. When standing in chest deep water, we only weighs 10 percent of our normal body weight.

For athletes, The reduction means they can work out harder at higher intensity levels several days in a row, without causing wear and tear on their joints and general muscle soreness. Not many strength coaches would allow an athlete to do two land-based, high-intensity sprint workouts on consecutive days, but when working out in a pool you can do two or three intense workouts in a row and not worry about overtraining injuries.

In addition, water is 12 percent more resistant than air because there are no gravitational forces. Working out in a pool or swim spa for 30 minutes gives you similar benefits of a two-hour, land-based workout. Water accommodates resistance—the harder you push or pull through it, the more resistance you experience.

Water also forces athletes to work their muscles both eccentrically and concentrically. This allows an equal ratio of strength and reciprocal contraction and relaxation of the muscles.

When planning an aquatic workout, follow the same principles as those of land based exercises. Frequency, intensity, and volume must be considered while planning and periodization are also important. You should structure the workouts with specific goals and organization. For example, decide whether you want to use water workouts as your primary exercise vehicle or just occasionally as an adjunct for speed and plyometric work. There are plenty of implementation options for water workouts—the key is figuring out what fits for you and your training program. 

Anyone can join a water workout in a large pool, a small pool, or anyplace that has enough water to fit the number of people.

Water workouts can be done in varying depths for specific purposes. Deep water is best for cardio work, while chest deep water is great for interval and power workouts, as well as plyometrics.

Almost any exercise you do on land can be done in the water. For both upper and lower body exercises, additional resistance can be added with water dumbbells, hand paddles, leg resistance, weighted boots, and bungie cords. Just like on land, correct body position is very important when performing the exercises. Water is great for emphasizing proper body position because it naturally slows down motion.

If you are that person looking for any hydro workout, rehab or sports visit http://www.hydroworx.com for its  world class rehab and fitness, underwater monitoring, resistance therapy jest, spacious underwater treadmill, and amazing floor plan.

After the sixth day of creation, when God looked at all He made, He pronounced, “It is good.”  But something went terribly wrong.  The enemy crept into God’s perfect world and deceived His image bearers with lies.  And while God’s redemptive plan has restored what the serpent destroyed, the enemy continues to tell us lies even today.  He tells us that we are worthless, powerless, failures who are not good enough, smart enough, or competent enough to succeed.  And it is not the truth. 

When God created the world and stocked the seas with marine life and the skies with winged creatures - when He ignited the stars in the night sky and placed the sun to light the day and the moon to illumine the darkness - He did so with words.  “And God said … and it came to be” (Genesis 1:3-26).  God spoke and what was not became what is.  “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” (Psalm 33:6)

Amazingly, when God created man in His own image, He gave us that same powerful tool.  He didn’t entrust words to monkeys, zebras, or elephants.  He gave words to man.  Our words also have creative potential.  In fact, the Bible tells us that “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21 (NASB) Our words become the mirror in which others see themselves.  Our words impact children, husbands, friends, and the world.  But some of the most powerful words we speak are the ones that no one hears … the words we speak to ourselves.

We can speak life to ourselves and we can speak death to ourselves.  Our minds think about 130 words per minute and our mouths (women) speak about 25,000 words in a day.  That’s a lot of words!  A considerable amount of those words are spoken or thought to ourselves.  Most of this self-talk is harmless, such as what will I fix for dinner? or where did I put my hairbrush?  But some are very destructive.

Saying, “I’m so stupid,” “I’m such an idiot,” or “I’m never going to be good enough,” can create habitual destructive thought patterns that can paralyze a person into inactivity.  Negative self-perceptions repeated over a period will brand themselves into our minds and eventually become our reality. If you repeat an unbelief or lie enough times, you begin to believe it.  “Nobody loves me,” “I don’t have any friends,” or “I’m so ugly” becomes your reality … even though it is a false reality.  You can become stuck in the house of mirrors looking at a distorted reflection of who you really are. 

The negative destructive lies of the enemy are like a tar baby.  The more you play with it, toy with it, embrace it, the more you get stuck to it.  Each time we speak a lie about ourselves, we become more bound to it.  “As [a man] thinks within himself, so he is” (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV)

When we look into God’s mirror, His incredible love letter to us we call the Bible, we discover the truth. God does love you (Colossians 3:12) You have an entire cloud of witnesses cheering for you (Hebrews 12:1). You are God’s masterpiece … a work of beautiful art (Ephesians 2:10).  You are good enough because Christ lives in you (John 14:20).  You are a chosen, holy, dearly loved child of God. That’s the truth.  Let’s start seeing ourselves as God sees us.

In one of John’s letters, he wrote, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 1:4).  I believe that God has no greater joy than to know that His children are walking in the truth.   When we are walking in the truth, the lies are exposed.  We can recognize the lie, reject the lie, and replace the lie with truth.  Then, and only then, can we be all that God has created us to be and do all that God has created us to do.  We can experience the abundant life that He planned all along.

I believe that God has great plans for us all – His Word promises that He does. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).  But many of us are not experiencing the abundant life because we don’t know who we are.  We have believed the lies that we are not good enough, unloved, unworthy, and unforgivable.  We have been looking in distorted mirrors for far too long.  God wants us to look into the only true mirror that will tell us exactly who we are, what we have, and where we are as a child of God – His Word.  It is the key to living the victorious Christian life.

It is time to start believing the truth.  It is time to hear God say, “You are my daughter, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

By Sharon J