Pool Workouts! Fun way to loose weight!

The newest trend among fitness lovers are pool workouts. We all want to lose weight without breaking a sweat. What’s better than doing that in a pool! This fun water workout burns mega calories and tones every trouble spot. Get the ‘swimmers body’ this summer.

Did you know? Simply treading water vigorously can burn around 11 calories a minute, same as a six-mile-per-hour run! Perform as many reps of each exercise as you can in 30 seconds, rest and repeat. You will soon emerge with a splashing figure!

• Targets: Arms, back, chest, abs, bottoms and hamstrings

In the deep end, tread water, making small circles with cupped hands, and lift right leg straight in front of you at hip level while reaching toes of left leg toward bottom of pool. Hold for 5 seconds.

Switch legs quickly, bringing right leg down as you raise left leg, and hold for 5 seconds. Continue for 30 seconds, alternating sides.

• Hugging beach ball to chest, float on back, legs extended, and feet together.

Roll toward left and over top of ball, using entire body -- shoulders, back, core, legs -- to make a full revolution, returning to start. Take a breath. (Beginners can rock from side to side with head above water throughout.)

Continue for 30 seconds, alternating direction of roll.

• Hold beach ball with arms stretched straight in front of you, float face down in chest-deep water so legs are extended behind you, feet together.

Keeping arms straight, pull ball underneath you, drawing it as fast as you can through water toward thighs in an arc. (As the ball is pressed underneath, it will lift you out of water to take a breath; beginners can keep head above water throughout.)

When ball reaches thighs, bend elbows to bring it back to surface and press it forward to return to start position. Continue for 30 seconds

• Standing in shallow end of pool, simultaneously sit back into water, treading with hands by sides, and lift both legs together so that you fold at the hips and your body forms a wide V, with head and toes just above surface.

Maintaining V position, move cupped hands in small circles by hips to tread water and propel yourself forward (sculling) down length of pool for 30 seconds.

• Facing pool wall in chest-deep water, hold on to edge of pool with left hand and place right palm, fingers pointing down, against wall just below water line for stability.

Extend legs behind you at water level with both feet and knees together, then kick like a dolphin: Initiate the motion with abs and hips and transfer it through thighs to knees and finally to feet. Kick as hard and as fast as you can for 30 seconds, trying to make the biggest waves possible.