All wet doesn\’t have to mean you got caught in a downpour while riding your bicycle. You can also take cycling into the pool!

Recently I was talking with a friend of mine, who has had hip replacement surgery. She mentioned doing in-the-pool exercises that resemble the motions of cycling. She even suggested it as a blog subject. Kudos to her! I wouldn\’t have thought of it on my own.

I suppose that everybody has heard of water aerobics; but the concept of aqua cycling is new to me. It\’s great that people who can\’t ride an actual bicycle the conventional way can get a cycling workout.

Years ago, long before I started cycling, I tried some kind of in-pool exercise class. This was in the recreation center of a university campus. The water was always too cold. I was told that that was for the sake of the serious swimmers who did laps. It was also too deep. Even in the shallowest part of the pool, it was hard for me to keep my chin above water.

That experience has put me off of water exercise classes. Nowadays, my \”water exercise\” is when I get caught in a downpour while doing a bicycle ride.