Your muscles will have to do very little, if you just stand still in the pool. That’s why swimming burns so many calories; the muscles work almost twice as hard as in land workouts and torch up to three times as many calories. You can try yourself by swimming one lap breaststroke, one lap backstroke, and still another lap butterfly. In fact freestyle is good for your body to burn more calories and your body will react sparklingly.

In water aerobics you can get water’s resistance to build muscle and burn calories for your body as you get same support as swimming instead of propelling your body from one end to another in the pool. You can perform Water aerobics, the same toning exercises that you would do in the gym in side the pool.

When you will do squats, lunges, leg lifts under water, simultaneously your body can collect higher calories as your muscles works harder and harder. The important thing is that you will free from stress on joints and arthritis with the support of the water.