Turttle Pool Systems - LOCH Integrated Systems

Water is largely an underused resource for gaining physical health. Water exercise benefits the human body in ways that land exercise cannot. The following properties help us to see why it's so important to exercise in or under water to gain better physical health.

Buoyancy is the upward force created by the amount of water displaced. With the buoyancy water creates, movement is easier, with greater physiological benefit to your muscles and joints. The buoyancy of water enables your arms, legs and trunk to be suspended and to move around freely by muscle contractions without joint compression. Muscle strength is improved by those contractions. Joint integrity is healthier by forcing your joints to move without joint compression, creating a greater production of synovial fluid. Plus there is less pain with movement, which encourages you to exercise longer.

Bouyancy

Muscles need varying degrees of resistance to increase their mass, strength and power. We need only to increase the displacement and speed of water to work the muscle harder. This can be done with a paddle, ball, or tube; or keeping the hand open instead of closed; walking forward , sideways; or walking against a current. As you grow stronger, you can increase your workout by increasing the displacement force or current speed of the water to create greater resistance.

Displacement

Water's ability to retain and transfer heat or cold is 25 times greater than air. Also, a moving person or water current will give off heat or absorb heat or cold faster than a still person or still water. As we all know, hot water is soothing and can increase blood flow. Cold water tightens our muscles and decreases blood flow. If we combine hot and cold water in what is called (in sports medicine) a contrast bath, we cause a reflex action in the blood vessels to dilate. This increases the blood flow to an area or part of your body. The more blood to a part, the faster the healing process and the healthier the tissue is.

The deeper you go in water, the more pressure it instantly exerts on your body. This trait keeps blood from pooling in your lower extremities, aiding circulation back to the heart. With more blood pumping, there is less stress and beats per minute on the heart with water exercise. Also, water pressure on your chest causes you to expel more air from your lungs, increasing your ability to breathe. These benefits will occur even if you don't exercise, just stay in water up to your neck.

Water Pressure

Since there are no pulleys or fixed directions that you have to move in water, you are free to move in any direction or angle and receive the same isokinetic frontal resistance. Water produces omni-directional resistance to all movement at all angles.

If you are in waterabout 10 ft. deep with a breathing apparatus (an exclusive patented technique of Ken Lochbaum P.T.,) you can get resistance throughout a full range of motion. For example, you can use water resistance to train or rehabilitate your golf, tennis or batting swings, ball throwing or practically any sports activity. And doing so provides you with perfect anatomical positioning. On land, similar exercises rely on centrifugal force and don't achieve the same frontal force of resistance and or lend themselves to perfect anatomical positioning.