AquaTread™ is a unique comprehensive total body cardiovascular aquatic workout that develops, strengthens and tones muscles, burns fat, significantly improves range of motion and flexibility, and builds stamina, all with no stress on joints and little muscle fatigue. It is the fitness program of the future, available to you today.
The Baltimore Sun described the AquaTread program as “one of the most progressive workouts in Baltimore.” Fitness magazine has recognized it as one of six “creative ways to burn fat.”
Indeed, AquaTread is a deep-water aerobic workout that is unlike any other program. It is painstakingly designed to reap the full range of benefits available in an aquatic environment. AquaTread harnesses the natural resistant force and cushioning effect of the water to provide the most challenging, invigorating and rewarding exercise routine available anywhere.
The AquaTread program allows participants to train at levels that they would be unable to reach in a land-based environment. It is also the ultimate cross-trainer for those who pursue running, biking or other training routines.
AquaTread is at the same time therapeutic and invigorating. It is also a natural way of healing and conditioning. And, most of all, it is a fun way to exercise.
Fat Burning
From its inception, AquaTread has been recognized as an ultimate fat burner. Searching for ”new ways to burn body fat,” Fitness magazine featured the program as one of just “a half dozen fat blasters that will breathe new life into your fitness routine.”
Research has established that the cushioning and cooling effects of the water allow one to train in water at levels that could not be attained outside of the pool. AquaTread has used these benefits to their fullest potential. With a workout that suspends participants in the water and incorporates carefully created movements to continuously challenge the participant and work varying muscle groups, AquaTread pushes participants to training levels that burn calories and body fat at some of the highest rates possible.
Flexibility And Strength Training
The ideal weight-loss program will burn fat, yet preserve muscle mass and bone density, ultimately increasing one’s metabolic rate. AquaTread works toward precisely that end.
While burning fat at an intensity that is almost unachievable in most other settings, AquaTread is a bone loading activity. It uses the natural resistant force of the water in a unique way, with movements and angles that would generally necessitate use of a flotation device, to build and tone the entire range of muscles in the body. The continuously varying movements also substantially enhance flexibility and dramatically improve one’s range of motion.
Cardio Training
AquaTread is an intense cardiovascular exercise routine with virtually no muscle fatigue or stiffness. Even participants who start with flotation devices will be challenged by the extreme pace and stimulating force of the AquaTread movements. Experienced participants will soon shed the flotation devices; the continuous treading motions necessary to stay afloat, coupled with the ever-changing movements exercising the full range of muscle groups, work the body with an extreme intensity. Yet, the natural cooling effect of the water allows the body to work at levels that it could not tolerate in a land-based environment.
The hard core exercise enthusiast will train at high intensity levels with none of the impact of land-based exercises. Furthermore, the natural resistance of the water makes the water workout more than ten times intense than similar routines performed on land. The water also affords de-conditioned individuals the ability to train at cardiovascular levels commensurate with those of athletes.
Core Training
AquaTread is also a great form of core training. The core muscles of the body – the abdominals, obliques and erector spinae – provide strength and power for the body and increase productivity. Proper core training reduces stress, strengthens the abs, improves posture and helps to control weight.
AquaTread focuses on the core muscle groups. The routine focuses on maintaining the vertical alignment of the body. As a result, students are immediately positioned to work the appropriate muscles in a carefully crafted fashion. By abandoning, or even reducing, the flotation support, abs are continuously challenged for the full duration of the workout.
Acquiring a proficiency in AquaTread will also make one more proficient in other core-training disciplines, such as yoga or Pilates.
A PROGRAM FOR EVERYONE
The adaptability of AquaTread may well be its most unique feature. Programs are tailor made to serve different populations. Hard core athletes will find themselves tested to their outer limits. Yet, in any one class participants can train at their own levels and gain just what they seek from the program.