A close family member of mine recently sustained a series of pelvic fractures from an accident. As part of the PT, she has been doing vigorous water exercises and noodling classes. The results have been good. This must be karma, the curse of the anti-noodling I have been doing for years now.
I would not be caught dead in a aqua-jogger. I have heard tris say they work, but you have to draw the line somewhere. How could he do it for an entire hour and not drown from boredom?!
Before I go rambling on, Aquageek, I hope your family member soon recovers from her injury! Aquavests have been known to be good rehab tools, despite the bad name they get when used by ppl who are "water strolling."
While recovering from a running injury, I was using one of those devices for interval workouts (used time segments instead of distance, since the latter would be pathetic). ;) You can get a decent workout with them if that's your intent. My problem with the vest was that it required me to use the "water walking" lane in the pool, and to work my way around two women bobbing along side by side, barely moving, just gossping, their hair perfectly coiffed. They were totally oblivious to the idea that others might actually want to do a workout w/ a vest on.
One day, I was doing my workout, however, and much to my utter relief, there was another runner (I know this... like me, he was doing this start/stop thing w/ his sports watch and pushing the effort, then easing off, then pushing). We started kvetching to each other about our injuries as runners will, and I learned that he was a h.s. runner--so here I was 50something and had more in common and more to talk about with this high school kid than the women bobbing along chitchatting.
Swimming was my cooldown for these workouts.... I now don't use water vests when I do water workouts. Swimming seems to fill the bill just fine and saves me from irritated looks from ppl who don't see the workout possibilities of aquavests.
I would not be caught dead in a aqua-jogger. I have heard tris say they work, but you have to draw the line somewhere. How could he do it for an entire hour and not drown from boredom?!
Before I go rambling on, Aquageek, I hope your family member soon recovers from her injury! Aquavests have been known to be good rehab tools, despite the bad name they get when used by ppl who are "water strolling."
While recovering from a running injury, I was using one of those devices for interval workouts (used time segments instead of distance, since the latter would be pathetic). ;) You can get a decent workout with them if that's your intent. My problem with the vest was that it required me to use the "water walking" lane in the pool, and to work my way around two women bobbing along side by side, barely moving, just gossping, their hair perfectly coiffed. They were totally oblivious to the idea that others might actually want to do a workout w/ a vest on.
One day, I was doing my workout, however, and much to my utter relief, there was another runner (I know this... like me, he was doing this start/stop thing w/ his sports watch and pushing the effort, then easing off, then pushing). We started kvetching to each other about our injuries as runners will, and I learned that he was a h.s. runner--so here I was 50something and had more in common and more to talk about with this high school kid than the women bobbing along chitchatting.
Swimming was my cooldown for these workouts.... I now don't use water vests when I do water workouts. Swimming seems to fill the bill just fine and saves me from irritated looks from ppl who don't see the workout possibilities of aquavests.
