Water works - The Times 22nd September 2007

Kinder on joints, burns up more calories, great for pregnant women – it’s why more and more of us are taking up aqua-jogging, says As I was clocking up lengths of my local pool recently, to the right of me in a lane of her own was a woman practising a technique that resembled no swimming stroke I had ever seen. Red faced and puffing she was shoulder-deep in water, but appeared more upright than even breaststroke might allow, and was bobbing along rather than ploughing forwards through the water. On closer inspection she was not swimming at all but running in the water, kept afloat by a buoyancy belt and substituting lengths of the pool for laps of a track.

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