Express Pool Care offer heatwave exercise advice
Summer in Arizona may make it difficult to muster the energy to get out and get your “exercise on” especially when you may be faced with triple digit temperatures even before the sun comes up. Once the sun is high in the sky, well then forget it, right? Swimming pool owners know, though, that no matter how hot it gets or how high the sun is in the sky, spending time in the swimming pool is not only fun, but beneficial for your health because you don’t have to give up your exercise just because it’s summer.
If you have a swimming pool you’re in luck! Jump in, play or swim laps and you won’t even break a sweat, but you will be getting in, or staying in, shape. Swimming provides a heart-healthy, lung-capacity-building workout in the coolest spot in the house!
The family pool is an ideal spot to take our workout routine a break from hot on-land exercises. Swimming provides double duty benefits: providing a way to get in shape by using the waters’ resistance to enhance the workout without putting undue pressure and stress on your joints. It’s a healthy win-win.
The swimming pool service contractors from Express Pool Care explain a water workout keeps your body temperature regulated. Face it, when summer is at its peak, it’s hard to muster the energy to undertake a workout in the heat and/or humidity. 
Benefits of a swimming workout include:
- The resistance of the water heightens your workout. Compare this to a land workout- water makes your muscles work more effectively.
- Easier on your bones and joints. Running, walking or weight training are beneficial for overall health, but hard on your joints. Water supports up to 80% of your body weight and this buoyancy meals you face a smaller chance of injury.
- Exercising in a swimming pool keeps body temperature constant and helps you avoid overheating.
- Build heart health and strength.
- When exercising the water you burn between 450-700 calories per hour – it is difficult to burn that many while in an on land workout.
- Swimming is ideal for an individual recovering from an injury and it’s a great exercise for those suffering from arthritis or even for seniors!
Make certain your pool is always clean and the water bacteria-free so you can get in a swim workout when the mood strikes! Give us a call and get on a cleaning schedule this is especially important as we head into monsoon season in Arizona.