Acqua Jogging, has anyone tried it?

Spirogyra

and if so does one need any 'specialist' swimwear such as 'shoes'? Struggling to shake off an Achilles strain. The Physio suggested I could try Acqua Jogging as a 'rehabilitative' measure. Did other's find it helped?.
Thanks
S

RayCun

Spirogyra wrote: »

and if so does one need any 'specialist' swimwear such as 'shoes'? Struggling to shake off an Achilles strain. The Physio suggested I could try Acqua Jogging as a 'rehabilitative' measure. Did other's find it helped?.
Thanks
S

you need a flotation belt, I think, to maintain the upright position as you jog

hillsiderunner

Spirogyra wrote: »

and if so does one need any 'specialist' swimwear such as 'shoes'? Struggling to shake off an Achilles strain. The Physio suggested I could try Acqua Jogging as a 'rehabilitative' measure. Did other's find it helped?.
Thanks
S

I do it sometimes.

You won't enjoy it the same way as running, but yep, it's a good way to help maintain fitness. You have to do intervals/sessions as you'll get nothing from an easy pace in the pool. You can Google and find a bunch of sessions.

You need the aquajogging belt to hold you up (about E30 I think) and a pool with a decent deep end where you'll be able to go up and down (slowly) without swimmers getting too aggravated. So a good deep end where space is not too tight.

hot buttered scones

+1 here on the intervals/sessions. I did it for about 2 months a couple of years back when recovering from an injury (I can't actually remember what the injury was!!). 3 days a week I think, about an hour in the pool. I used to do things like 1 min hard, 30 seconds easy after a 10 minutes warm up. The intervals serve a double purpose - as hillside runner said above, you'll get nothing from easy pace in the pool, but also it's really boring so the interval sessions make it a lot less so. I did meet a few other runners doing the same thing from time to time so it wasn't that weird. Both pools I used had swimming lanes for the serious swimmers so I didn't seem to bother the more casual types with my splashing round in circles. I think it helped maintain fitness - in the sense that I didn't loose as much fitness as I should have in that time period. A lot of pools will have flotation belts, so check with the pool you intend on going to before buying one. The use them for aqua aerobics and things like that.

DogSlySmile

Yea I did that to keep the legs moving during injury. I found it really helpful. A flotation belt should be provided by most public pools I'd say. Maybe ring ahead to make sure, no point in buying one if they have one there.

As the poster said above, you have to do "sprints" to get anything out of it. I found that it really helped when I got back running after injury as my legs never got out of the routine of turning over.

Murph_D

You mean like this?