ReviewJournal of sports science & medicine2009
Physiological assessment of head-out aquatic exercises in healthy subjects: a qualitative review.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Wearable technologies for monitoring aquatic exercises: A systematic review.Clinical rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Head-Out Water-Based Protocols to Assess Cardiorespiratory Fitness-Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- The effect of 12 weeks of water-aerobics on health status and physical fitness: An ecological approach.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Effect of aqua-cycling on pain and physical functioning compared with usual care in patients with knee osteoarthritis: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2016Trial
- Water- versus land-based exercise in elderly subjects: effects on physical performance and body composition.Clinical interventions in aging · 2013Trial
- Effect of aquatic exercise on blood pressure and related physiological indicators in hypertensive patients: a systematic meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Impact of a 10-Week Aqua Fitness Intervention on Physical Fitness and Psychosocial Measures in Inactive Healthy Adult Women.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Differences in brain connectivity between older adults practicing Tai Chi and Water Aerobics: a case-control study.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- Acute effect of resistive aquatic high-intensity interval training on metabolic costs in adults.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- A Narrative Literature Review on the Role of Exercise Training in Managing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Effects of Combined Aquatic Exercise on Physical Performance and Metabolic Indices in Overweight Healthy Older Adults.International journal of exercise science · 2023Article
- Postexercise hypotension and heart rate variability response after water- and land-based high-intensity interval exercise in prehypertensive obese men.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Systematic review of aquatic physical exercise programs on functional fitness in older adults.European journal of translational myology · 2021Article
- Combined Chair-Based Exercises Improve Functional Fitness, Mental Well-Being, Salivary Steroid Balance, and Anti-microbial Activity in Pre-frail Older Women.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Relationship between Oxygen Uptake, Heart Rate, and Perceived Effort in an Aquatic Incremental Test in Older Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The Effect of Head-Out Aquatic Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Middle-Aged and Elderly People.Pulse (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Comparison of Subjective Workout Intensities between Aquatic and Land-based Running in Healthy Young Males: A Pilot Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
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Abstract
In the last decades head-out aquatic exercises became one of the most important physical activities within the health system. Massive research has been produced throughout these decades in order to better understand the role of head-out aquatic exercises in populations' health. Such studies aimed to obtain comprehensive knowledge about the acute and chronic response of subjects performing head-out aquatic exercises. For that, it is assumed that chronic adaptations represent the accumulation of acute responses during each aquatic session. The purpose of this study was to describe the "state of the art "about physiological assessment of head-out aquatic exercises based on acute and chronic adaptations in healthy subjects based on a qualitative review. The main findings about acute response of head-out aquatic exercise according to water temperature, water depth, type of exercise, additional equipment used, body segments exercising and music cadence will be described. In what concerns chronic adaptations, the main results related to cardiovascular and metabolic adaptations, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition improvements will be reported. Key pointsSeveral papers reported consistent and significant improvement in physical fitness (e.g., aerobic capacity, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition) after a program of head-out aquatic exercise with at least eight weeks.Chronic adaptations to head-out aquatic exercise programs are the cumulative result of appropriate acute responses during the exercise session.Appropriate acute adaptations can be obtained taking into account the water temperature, water depth, type of exercise and its variants, the equipment used and the segmental cadence according to the subjects' profile.
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