With her purple noodle tied in a knot around her foot, Joanne Nix repeats lifting her leg and pushing it back down 15 times before switching the noodle to her next foot.

The underwater movement is one of many she has performed since 1996, when she joined the Senior Swim Group.

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Making waves: Senior swim group meets for water aerobics

Gainesville The Leonard Park Aquatic Center opens today for a summer filled with swimming pool fun.

The resort-style, public pool appeals to all ages, Gainesville Parks and Recreation director Patrick McCage said.

The aquatic center provides great opportunity to play and splash in the water with different features that include a pool drop slide, diving board, play structure, rock wall and the big yellow slide. A variety of swim programs are also available.

Programs offered to the public include general swim, family night, swimming lessons, Paddling with Parents, ladies aerobics, Swimmin Women and season passes for both the individual and family.

New is the Dive-In movie Nights offered from June 21 to July 19 and Aug. 9.

Paddling with Parents is offered from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Registration for swimming lessons and private parties for the 2014 season has started.

General hours are from 1 to 6 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Admission is $5 per person with children two years-old and younger free. One child per adult.

Individual season passes are available for $75. A pass for a family of four is $160 and two additional members would be $25 per person. A punch card for $45 provides 10 visits.

Family swim night is on Fridays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. No one under 17 years of age is admitted without a parent. A family up to six members is $20 and an individual is $5.

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SEVEN gold, six silver and two bronze medals highlighted an overwhelmingly successful state championships weekend for Warrnambools aerobics exponents.

EKB Fitness aerobics coach Emma Bellman (centre) with teammates Sophie Bellman (her sister) and Aylish AuchettlPicture: DAMIAN WHITE

SEVEN gold, six silver and two bronze medals highlighted an overwhelmingly successful state championships weekend for Warrnambools aerobics exponents.

The medallists are among more than 40 from EKB Fitness and Aerobics who will compete at national level after qualifying at the two-day championships in Geelong.

Highlights included Jordan Rooke, 16, winning gold in the junior international solo and doubling up with his team Fierce.

Hayley Dalton, 10, impressed with her runner-up effort in the cadet international solo class.

Hayley backed up with two gold medals in team events, with cadet hip hop outfit Krazy Crew and cadet national team Intensity.

Also in the international stream, senior team Fierce won gold, senior trio Audacity claimed gold and junior team Fusion emerged with silver.

There was much success in the national stream, including cadet team Intensity winning its class and cadet trio Dynamic placing third.

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ANGEL FIRE Water aerobics is becoming increasingly popular for people who need to rehabilitate from injuries, exercise certain muscles or just want to work out.

The swimming pool at Angel Fire Resort County Club has become one location for people to enjoy the popular activity.

Care is taken in the classes to accommodate students and keep them safe.

They wear aqua shoes so theres minimal impact instead of jogging on concrete, Jan Zientara, the water aerobics instructor at Angel Fire Resort Country Club, said. It lessens the jolt on our joint just like any other land run. But I would say its a full-body workout. Youre not having to sweat, you feel like youre not working as hard because our blood does circulate faster, the water is cooling them at the same time. And its really the light impact.

Any of this equipment Im using, youd have to have a free weight, Zientara said. Water is 12 times denser and youre working companion muscles in the water, so they dont have any soreness the day after. When youre working with buoyancy equipment its more of an arm curl rather than a bicep curl. If youre on land youre just working one of the muscles.

Zientara became involved with aqua fitness in Illinois and eventually received her fitness training certification.

Just knowing that through the certification through the arthritis foundation, I know how to modify a move if theyre protecting a joint, Zientara said. If they have arthritis in their hand they would have been done. Hip replacements you dont want to cross a midline. I can tell them to modify this and just feel it.

Increasing bone density is another benefit from regularly practicing water aerobics.

When I was working with people in Illinois, they said that their bone density had gotten better, Zientara said. Its not as much weight-bearing, but its enough. You will burn calories but it all comes down to what you eat.

The average age of participants is about 60 and up and classes can sometimes get as large as 17 people, Zientara said.

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