Aquatic Exercise - About Us & News
Fun Swim Board is a leading manufacturer of swim fitness products including swim slippers, sun lotions and innovative swim boards such as the EZ Swimmer. Swim fitness is delivering a variety of water workout options to your clients. The swim board called the EZ Swimmer offers the very best resistance program ever. Our product line includes:
Swim Fitness Tools
- The Innovative EZ Swimmer® Offers: Amazing Abdominal Crunches – Train Your Abs Crunch Comfortable Push-Ups – Build Your Biceps & Our Exclusive Seated Balance – Build Your Balance
- Two Swim Boards
- Optional Add On - Personalized Name
Eco-Friendly Lotions – Paba Free, Oil Free
- SPF 30 with UVA Protection Aloe Vera Based, No Oils, No Metallics, Completely Safe for Sensitive Marine Life!
- After Sun Care - Soothing Care with Aloe Vera Lotion - Dries Completely in Minutes - Made with Lidocaine for Fast Cooling Relief - Again No Oil, No Metallics, Completely Safe for Sensitive Marine Life!
Locker Room/Shower Shoes – Better than Aqua Socks
- Swim Slippers with the EZ Swimmer logo and a convenient adjustable plastic closure
- Toddler Wadders - Same Great Water Shoes for Infants - Some with Silicon Soles, Some with Rubberized Soles
- Gift Box
Achievement Pins - Lapel Pins to Celebrate your professional swim fitness achievements, dedication and professional service
- Water Exercise Is Wise
- #1 Swim Coach
- Life Guards Save Lives
- Blue EZ Swimmer Achievement Pin
- Black EZ Swimmer Achievement Pin - Advanced
FREE POSTERS
We also offer a vast array of free instruction posters. They are available free to you via email. Laminated copies are available upon special request and come in a myriad of sizes.
About the Inventor
The inventor of the EZ Swimmer is Kelly Kline Burnett (formerly Engaldo). She and her husband reside between Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. She believes strongly in fitness and health and has written a number of articles under the pen name GmaGoldie. While retired from personal training and group instruction, her health and fitness articles continue to be very popular. Among her most popular are First Class Foods, Low Impact Leg Lifts, and Einstein's Hunch. As a heart patient she urges her clients to track their resting heart rate as a statistical motivator to continue on a regular workout routine.
The swim board is sold most economically in a set of two not just for streamlining shipping costs but also for the sake of motivation. Swim with a friend and you will add the element of continuity which is critical to being not just healthy but really fit.
More background information:
EZ SWIMMER®: We have had life guards and aquatic instructors alike say they will never do abdominal exercises on land again after trying the EZ Swimmer’s water sit-ups. The EZ Swimmer® is a multi-functional, aquatic resistance tool allowing the user to target specific muscles, such as biceps, triceps, quadriceps, abdominal and core muscles. The Seated Balance™ is an advanced exercise that requires users to engage their core muscles for stability working against their own body weight and the resistance of the water. The EZ Swimmer® is made of soft, comfortable and safe closed cell foam, utilizes the weight of the user’s own body for maximum effectiveness and exercise. The displacement of the water and the buoyancy of this innovative aquatic resistance tool make the EZ Swimmer® the ultimate in swim fitness tools delivering an unparalleled exercise experience.
The EZ Swimmer® is so effective because it utilizes the exerciser’s own body for the majority of resistance, does not lock the exerciser into any particular movements and therefore challenges the user on three cardinal planes – sagittal, frontal and transverse delivering balance, resistance and strength training – all right in the water. Using the natural benefits of the water, the exerciser gains all the benefits of resistance training without wear and tear on the body.
Protective Locker Room Shoes: ASP also manufactures protective and convenient swim shoes (with an adjustable plastic closure to eliminate that terrible tug on and tug off). Better than aqua socks, better than Crocs. Why? Our aqua socks / beach shoes are just as convenient as Crocs but also offer protection from shower room bacteria.
Eco-Friendly Lotions: Eco-friendly sun lotions with both UVA and UVB protection, after sun care lotions with Aloe and lip balms. Our lotions are PABA free, oil-free, and good for the environment and provide great sun protection and moisture care.
We Make Swim Fitness Fun & Easy!
NEWS
Rockford YMCA's class will feature pool-fitness invention
By Mike DeDoncker
Last update Aug 29, 2008 @ 10:27 AM
HealthyRockford.com
Kelly Engaldo’s quest for a good workout has taken her further than most, all the way to becoming part of the fitness industry.
EZ Swimmer
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Who
Created by Kelly Kline Burnett
Sold by
Fun Swim Board, Milton, Wisconsin
E-mail ezswimmer at gmail.com
Her route to becoming the inventor and marketer of EZ Swimmer, an aquatic resistance-training tool, was marked by health problems.
“I had open-heart surgery at Mayo Clinic in 1976,” Engaldo said, “and I was sent home with only two restrictions: throw out the salt shaker and don’t get overtired. Back in those days, getting exercise really wasn’t part of the prescription.”
Inspired by her grandparents’ exercise habits, the then-14-year-old Engaldo wanted to build up her endurance and began a walking routine that she kept up until knee surgery forced her to take up swimming as a workout in 2003.
“I was swimming three days a week but I always wanted more resistance in the water and wall exercises can get really limiting,” she said. “Then, because of a neck injury, my right arm went numb and I had to have some kind of swim float.
“It was no longer a wish. It was either I was going to have to start walking again, which was not my favorite idea, or I could do something to get back in the pool. So, I began to put together a beautiful duct-taped version of a swim float — eventually, I graduated to blue duct tape — and then I sought out a manufacturer.”
Her search for a manufacturer began in 2005 and went through more than 60 candidates, including one in China, before she found Tarboro, N.C.-based Spongex LLC, which was able to manufacture her approximately 2-foot-long float from a closed-cell plastic foam originally developed by B.F. Goodrich as insulation for the U.S. space program.
“Local manufacturers produce plastics for the medical and automobile industries and didn’t produce soft foam,” Engaldo said. “Then I looked at China and they came back and said we’re 80 percent sure we can get the materials correct. I was like I’m 100 percent sure I can’t hand you the money until I see the material being correct.”
Engaldo said Spongex essentially gave her the mold at their cost and the plastics engineer she had hired was able to contact a biomedical engineer in Tennessee who finished the product design. Three prototypes later, the EZ Swimmer was in production by mid-2007.
Spongex manufactures the floats in North Carolina, but the screen printing that produces the finished product is done by CorPro Screentech, 5129 Forest Hills Court.
“Spongex does a wonderful job of production,” Engaldo said, “but I wanted the screen printing done locally and I wanted quality control over it.”
Engaldo uses the float, which creates resistance from the user’s own body weight, for her own workout and said she has sold a “handful to aquatic instructors and for market testing” as well putting a few on e-bay to get a feel for the market and correct pricing.
One of the floats sells for $75 alone or $99 with a gift set that includes an 18-page use guide and laminated poster illustrating three basic exercises.
One of her biggest sales was to Rockford's YMCA of the Rock River Valley, which will be the first place to use the float in a group exercise beginning Wednesday, Sept. 3.
“We bought 10, and I really think it’s going to totally reshape what a total body workout is in the pool,” said YMCA Aquafitness Instructor Diane Robinson, who will teach the class. “It’s going to put kickboards and Noodles (a long cylindrical float) back in the box.
“For instance, you can do crunches with a Noodle all day, but if you do just 20 crunches with this you are definitely going to feel it.”
Robinson said the classes with EZ Swimmer will be at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at 200 Y. Blvd. on a first-come, first-served basis for 10 participants.
In addition to crunches, basic exercises on the EZ Swimmer include seated balance for the core, tricepes dips and push-ups that Robinson said will take participants some time to master.
Engaldo hopes the classes will succeed and lead to her objective for the EZ Swimmer’s future.
“I’d like it to change fitness,” she said. “I’d like to have fitness in the hotels. I’d like to see swim fitness become a family event and I want fitness to be seen as fun.
“Something like running is a great exercise, but it’s not really a family exercise whereas swimming and resistance training in the water you can do with all the family members because, since your body weight creates your resistance, it’s customized for each individual.”
Staff writer Mike DeDoncker can be reached at 815-987-1382 or mdedoncker@rrstar.com.