Terri Lees has been teaching aquatic activities and coaching swimming for more than 30 years. She taught and coached high school swimming for 12 years and spent 13 years at Wichita State University as the aquatic coordinator for campus recreation, where she taught and created aquatic programs for students and instructors.

Lees has been a contributor to the American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor and Swimming and Diving texts and served as an on-camera host for the Aqua Fitness video. She is currently the chair-elect for the Council for Aquatic Professionals of AAHPERD and has presented at numerous state, district, and national conventions. Lees also serves as the chair for the development committee of the aquatic fitness instructor credential. She is a master teacher of adapted aquatics and a master instructor of aquatic fitness for the AAHPERD Council for Aquatic Professionals.

Lees is the aquatic supervisor at North Kansas City Community Center in North Kansas City, Missouri. She is personally involved as a competitive swimmer and is coaching a 50] age-group team at the community center. She has designed and created all of the water exercise programs for the center and provides personal training in the water for people with disabilities.

This book is aimed at aquatic exercise instructors and swimming teachers looking for ideas on how to construct water fitness workouts. It features over 100 water fitness activities for participants of all ages and abilities. Whether class members are learning to swim or just exercising for fitness, this book provides activities to suit all goals and interests. It is useful for working with groups at different levels of ability, as most activities include variations that make them fully inclusive; and, includes a facility safety checklist, rules and regulations for a safe programme, as well as personal safety information for both instructors and participants. It includes a handy swimming activity finder that will help the reader locate appropriate activities at-a-glance.