Simple Discovery Could Free Millions from Walkers and Wheelchairs

Columbus, OH, September 01, 2006 --(PR.com)-- While trying to develop exercise in water for people who could not otherwise do exercises, or even walk, a fitness instructor has found two simple methods to restore a remarkable amount of strength, flexibility and mobility to millions of people using canes, walkers and wheelchairs.

According to Steven Craig, founder and Water Fitness Instructor for WaterWalking.org, "these two exercises only take a few minutes every other day and their effects are often visible after one session."

The whole body exercise is called WaterWalking, which is performed while wearing a life jacket, in deep enough water so that the legs have no contact with the bottom. Basically WaterWalking is a strait arm, and strait leg, walking motion done while floating vertically in water. Their concept is that almost anyone with greatly limited mobility can still float around and move while wearing a life jacket.

WaterWalking constantly works every large muscle needed for walking in both forward and reverse, so no motion is wasted and this time spent exercising works almost every major muscle. Because the body does not land, WaterWalking builds strength through a far greater range of motion then was ever before possible by walking, or even running on land.

Because the body must also hang down from the life jacket, just to waterwalk, having the ability to walk on land is not necessary. Additionally it is the only full body exercise that actually elongates the back, instead of compressing the spine. This means that WaterWalking has very exciting potential for millions of other folks who cannot, or will not exercise due to back problems.

"Often the only expense these people will encounter is the cost of a life jacket and pool access. Well they may also need a bathing suit or two, but they are not necessary to WaterWalk".

They call the other exercise "Wet Knee Kicks", and they are little more then alternating knee kicks done while relaxing in a hot tub.

Steven explains the power of this relaxing exercise this way:
"What would happen to one of your arms if you simply refused to use it for ten or more years? Would not a similar withering effect happen to just about any other body part? Are there millions of people who have not applied any strength retaining resistance through their knees range of motion in a decade or more?"

"As long as they are still physically healthy, a bodybuilder, who has retired for a decade or longer, can rapidly restore a great deal of their former strength, as a average healthy person (who has never body-built) may require years for comparable strength increases.”

He claims these factors prove that it is easier for a human body to restore former power then to build it up from scratch. “These Wet Knee Kicks were designed to restore neglected strength, instead of build it all new. That's likely the reason why both of these exercises work so rapidly."

He said he recommends doing one hundred of these, ‘Wet Knee Kicks’, per leg, three times a week can double to triple the strength in legs simply weak from not being used, in sometimes only weeks. He also claimed that age plays a much smaller role then determination, and that these exercises are only temporary treatments unless they become a standard part of these folk’s daily lives.

WaterWalking is just finishing a web site, which uses cute cartoon sketches to explain these, and many other exercises. He adds that "We named it WaterWalking.org because that describes organizing to do the walking motion in water, it has nothing to do with anybody’s religion. The only guru at this site is the Grand Lama of Wet Fun."

Steven is also the author of a book called WaterWalking. It contains nearly a hundred other exercises that he has also developed. He says that his wet abdominal crunches are so intense, that at their highest level they will make the average person yell in about 5 seconds. For several weeks he has been giving away this cartoon illustrated water exercise book, as a download.

He adds one final note, "Only try these exercises after reading all you can about them, and after getting your doctor’s approval. Maybe best of all” Steven cracks, “after 6 intense minutes you get out all refreshed and squeaky clean”.

If these two exercises work as well as they appear to have for the few people we have seen, they just might park a million wheelchairs, as is WaterWalking.org’s stated goal. If they work even half that well, we will know after our next dip in the pool or hot tub. They have free, easy to find, one page illustrated printouts on both of these exercises at their web site.

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