Water Aerobics With Robin Wilson

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“The therapeutic benefits of water are good for everybody,” says water aerobics instructor Robin Wilson. “Not just those who have been injured.”

I have to admit it—my mom was ahead of her time. Once I learned how to swim my mother would take my old “water wings” and put them on her feet. Then she would use them as weights, lifting her legs from the surface of the water to the bottom of our pool from the front, back and side, toning her leg muscles. Nowadays, there are dozens of foam products that you can purchase on-line or at pool supply stores that serve the same purpose in the growing trend of water aerobics.

Aquatics instructor Robin Wilson never used water wings but she does recall using empty plastic Tide bottles in her first water aerobics classes nearly two decades ago. A native Californian, Robin is a fit woman with sun-kissed skin and an easy smile. For more than 20 years, she’s been teaching water aerobics in gated communities, public pools and private residences in and around Vero Beach.

Read the entire article in the March 2007 issue

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