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75-year-old Sylvia Lindsay leads her water aerobics class in the pool at the Grande Dunes Ocean Club on Thursday morning. The former physical education teacher says exercise has always been a part of her life, and she credits constant activity to helping her feel and look young.

MYRTLE BEACH - Sylvia Lindsay carries around bags full of water toys--including barbells and water noodles--in her car wherever she goes. She isn't entertaining grandchildren, though. The 75-year-old is busy as a water aerobics instructor at several different places around the Grand Strand several days a week.

"It's not just little old ladies splashing water," said Lindsay. "It's a good, heavy work-out."

On Tuesdays and Thursdays she teaches at the Grande Dunes Ocean Club in Myrtle Beach, where Lindsay and her students usually have the resort-style pool to themselves.

"Everybody can find a pool someplace," Lindsay said. "Or, if they have to, they can go down and get in a creek!'

Lindsay says the buoyancy creates drag--but not strain--on the body's movements, and that can equal a greater workout with less strain. That makes water aerobics an attractive fitness option for just about anyone.

"This is good rehab for surgery," said Lindsay. "I do have people in classes that are coming out of cardiac rehab, especially, and they were told to come and get in a water program."

Lindsay, a former physical education teacher, first tried water aerobics 25 years ago. She said she grew up going to her local YMCA, where she enjoyed swimming, archery, and golf, among other activities.

Now, the 75-year-old says she feels young and loves to help others feel better and look better, too.

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