Exercise in Water

Fitness Professionals: Exercise in Water (3rd edition) is a practical handbook for the regular exerciser who wishes to know more about the enormous benefits of training in water, and the fitness professional who seeks a thorough grounding in Level 2 and 3 knowledge.
This edition takes into account best practice and explicitly link the contents to the national standards to which all gym instructors and personal trainers are assessed.
Exercise in Water is one of the core modules of the Level 2 gym instructors syllabus, and a new Level 3 qualification has been added in January 2008. This edition will cover all this knowledge, usingrevision notes and tests as useful tools for the readers' study.
Fitness Professionals: Exercise in Water is therefore reference on this discipline for everyone involved in the health and fitness industry.

Debbie Lawrence is a consultant and writer for the health and fitness industry and has over 30 years' experience as a fitness professional and educator. She is a qualified integrative counselor, a student of yoga and has a special interest in mental health and well-being. She has written a number of qualification and training resources for some of the leading awarding and training organisations in the sector, including: CYQ, The Open University, Active IQ, Yfit, VTCT and EDI.

Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
PART ONE: WATER AND FITNESS
1 The effects of the physical properties of water
2 The benefits of water-based exercise

PART TWO: HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR PLANNING A WATER-BASED EXERCISE PROGRAMME
3 Gathering information from the target group
4 Pool safety and adapting to work in the pool environment
PART THREE: DESIGNING A WATER-BASED EXERCISE PROGRAMME
5 Selecting a programme format
6 Designing a warm-up
7 Designing a cool-down
8 Designing a cardiovascular training programme
9 Designing a water-based step training programme
10 Designing a muscular strength and endurance training programme
11 Using specialist equipment and deep-water training
12 Designing a circuit training programme
PART FOUR: SPECIALIST PROGRAMMES
13 Aquatic training for sportspeople
14 Aquatic training with older adults
15 Aquatic training through pregnancy
PART FIVE: TEACHING, WORKING WITH MUSIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY
16 Teaching an exercise in water session
17 Working with music and choreography
18 Lesson plans
References and recommended reading
Useful addresses