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Done correctly, water workouts can give you gains similar to those on land, including aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and better balance. Darcy Reber, family medicine provider at Mayo Clinic Health System in Cannon Falls, Minn., recommends aquatic exercise because:
Water's buoyancy supports your weight. When you're submersed up to your neck, the water cancels out about 90 percent of your body weight, significantly reducing stress on your weight-bearing joints, bones and muscles.

Remember to stay hydratedSummer is the time for outdoor fun and activities, but as temperatures rise, staying properly hydrated becomes even more important.

Jon Cunningham of Port Orange likes to run and surf.“Anything I can do outside, I do outside,” said Cunningham, the assistant principal of Atlantic High School.So it’s only natural that Cunningham likes the outdoor version of volleyball, too. He is a regular at the beach volleyball courts in front of the Ocean Deck restaurant in Daytona Beach, often playing Tuesday and Thursday nights after work and on Saturday mornings if the weather permits.“I love working out outside.

When Ann Bess started work as a medical technologist in 1959, she worked with Bunsen burners, flasks and beakers since there were no computers and automated analyzers.Bess hung up her white lab coat on June 1 after working at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial for the past 25 years. Bess spoke to The News-Journal about her career and the changing landscape of lab work.What was it like to manually do all the lab work?It was pretty much follow the recipe and cook. Then you did the dishes. There was an awful lot of dishes to wash and put in the dryer oven overnight.

Autopsies conducted Friday confirmed the identities of the man and woman found dead inside a DeBary home Thursday, but how the couple died remains unknown, an official said.Additional testing will be required to confirm the causes of death for Richard and Lenora Powers, Volusia County sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.Property records show Richard Powers, 81, and Lenora Powers, 72, owned their home at 42 Jasmine Drive.The investigation into the Powerses' deaths began Thursday afternoon when the couple's daughter in South Florida asked a family friend, Gary Bartlett, to check on her parent

Hear Journey music, watch a regatta, go wholistic . . .1. HEAR JOURNEY MUSIC: The Journey tribute band Never Stop Believin' will perform at 7:15 p.m. at the Bandshell, behind the Ocean Walk Shoppes, 250 N.

BUNNELL — A trio of accused squatters were arrested Wednesday after Flagler County sheriff's deputies found them living in a Palm Coast house that was supposed to be vacant.Charisma Borgmann, 19, and Stephanie Reid, 19, both of Palm Coast, were charged with burglary in connection with the incident. A 17-year-old Palm Coast girl also faces charges stemming from the arrest. Her name is being withheld because of her age.Records show Borgmann remained jailed Friday while Reid had been released.

Two men face drug charges after special agents raided a home in Palm Coast’s P-section on Wednesday.Wilbert Hough Jr., 30, and Twhan Terrique Johnson, 26, both of 1 Pythian Place, were charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Hough was also booked on a probation violation and a count of possession of MDMA Ecstasy. Johnson was charged with an added count of possession of marijuana under 20 grams.Records show Hough remained jailed on $4,500 bail Friday morning.

“Beauty and the Beast,” Celtic Woman and more will be part of the 2015-2016 Broadway in Daytona Beach series.The series opens with Mannheim Steamroller Christmas on Nov. 12 and concludes with “42nd Street” on May 1.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A group of local leaders that's been huddling since the beginning of the year to come up with a plan to create a new homeless shelter is ready for its ideas to be presented at a series of public meetings next month.At a meeting at Daytona Beach City Hall this morning, the group decided it's time to share details of the plan at three public meetings that will be held in about two or three weeks in different areas of Volusia County.