Above about swimming that is good for us.
Swimming's good for you, but aqua-style exercise--complete with underwater dumbbells and the like--is, apparently, great for you. So much more fun than swimming laps, the aqua equivalent of a hamster wheel, according to the article. One man's meat, I say; laps can be great when you do them on the clock, and water aerobics--well, I've never tried a class, but I've rarely seen a more bored and disengaged group of elderly folks than the ones doing a billion desultory dumbbell lifts in aqua aerobics class while I'm a couple of lanes over, pushing myself to the brink of pukedom as they curl and press the underwater dumbbells that basically do the curling and pressing for you.
There are are actually some great suggestions for water workouts at the above link. But effective water training always depends on how hard and fast you move, so you may have to work with a little more focus and deliberate intensity in the water to really create a training effect. Unlike, say, lifting a weight, or running on the clock, it can be tough to gauge how hard you're working.
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