About
Aquatic Fit Niagara was developed by Fitness/Rehab Instructor Sandra Hills from a passion to help people meet their health and fitness goals in a comforting and supportive environment.
Having spent her whole life swimming and teaching others, Sandra’s dream of running her own aquatic school started to become a reality in 2010. Together with her husband Graham they moved their family to Niagara Falls and began renovating the indoor pool attached to their new home into a safe and comfortable place to teach swimming. Expanding her education to include aquatic fitness and rehabilitation the pool was converted to SALT WATER to maximize health benefits and HEATED to optimal temperatures for exercise and rehabilitation. Opening for business in 2012 Aquatic Fit Niagara and Sandra’s inclusive teaching methods have grown quickly in popularity and are always evolving in attempts to meet the unique needs of every person that visits.
“I have many years of experience and continue to upgrade my skills yearly to better instruct my swimmers. My combined qualifications as a Life Saving Society Swim Instructor and a Ymca Group Fitness Trainer as well as Water in Motion instructor and CanFit Group fitness Instructor give me a strong understanding of exercise physiology. Further education in Aquatic Rehabilitation and CanFit nutrition enable me to adapt confident care into my teaching strategies with fantastic results.”
What makes Sandra special to the aquatic fitness and rehab environment are her own struggles. As a young woman she stayed strong and slim with no apparent effort but after the birth of her fifth child she found herself unable to drop the ‘baby weight’. She then injured herself during rigorous attempts to recover her pre-pregnancy figure and found herself relying on her love of swimming to regain her health, mobility and fitness. She understands the strain of trying to exercise when you are either sick, injured or too busy to get to an expensive gym and wait your turn on equipment that may or may not help you so Aquatic Fit Niagara was developed to address your individual concerns. Sandra invites those with Special Needs and anyone suffering joint problems, arthritis, fibromyalgia, injury or obesity to visit and feel the difference.
Credentials
- Certified Water ART Instructor
- Arthritis Instructor Certification
- Water in Motion Instructor
- CanFit Group Fitness Instructor
- YMCA Aqua-Fit group Fitness Trainer
- Life Savings Society Instructor
- Aquatic Post Rehabilitation Instructor
- St. Johns Ambulance First Aid