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From kick-set to freestyle, here are few water workouts one can try

Swimming is more demanding and burns more calories than a 30-minute land workout

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Nisha Millet
Water workouts provide a demanding full-body exercise as they provide resistance from all vectors and angles. Swimming is a great aerobics exercise for toning parts of the body that aren’t actively moving, and are now supporting you against the resistance of the water. These workouts are also more unique because they provide firm resistance without impact. Loosing balance while lifting weights, or practicing the wrong form during machine workouts can injure the body as opposed to rarely tumbling over in the pool.

Swimming is more demanding and burns more calories than a 30-minute land workout. However, water workouts are not just