WATER WORKOUT BLOG

An exercise regimen based exclusively on high intensity cardio and strength training is bound to be derailed in time due to acute or chronic injury. Optimal fitness performance and injury avoidance requires restorative rest, along with healthy joints and flexible muscles. Join Claire Barker-Hemings for Aqua Restore, 28 minutes of restorative active recovery that focuses on joint mobility and muscular flexibility with soothing, rhythmic movement.  

AquaBata with Melissa Plumeau is a shallow water workout that features 8 Tabata/HIIT intervals designed to challenge your fitness through powerful progressions, grounded strength and dynamic movement. These short, but powerful intervals, deliver a high metabolic stimulus in very little time. Simple in structure, purposeful in design, AquaBata builds strength, endurance and confidence, one interval at a time.

Pick your preferred depth, deep or shallow, and join Donna Boucher for a 50-minute moderate intensity water aerobic workout that is designed to improve stamina and endurance.  Choose Your Current is a dual-depth pool workout that can be done in either depth, delivering a completely different movement experience in shallow versus deep water. Equipment is not required, but a flotation belt should be worn if exercising in deep water.

Step into the water and release your inner warrior. Water Combat with Maria is a 45-minute aqua kickboxing experience where rhythm meets precision and energy meets control. 

Get ready for a splashy ladder fitness challenge. Ladders is a 55-minute pool workout that features high intensity cardio and muscular endurance targeting all the major muscle groups. Each of the seven ladders includes 4-minutes of high intensity exercise, followed by two minutes of recovery that includes core training, muscular flexibility and joint mobility. Enjoy this pool workout in either deep or shallow water.

Experience a shallow water workout that targets essential components of fitness with a circuit-style 3-2-1 approach. Sweat Strength Reset with Claire Barker-Hemings delivers results with a simple approach that breaks each circuit down into three minutes of strength, two minutes of cardio and one minute of flexibility/recovery.

Enjoy a results-driven pool workout that combines high intensity metabolic conditioning (Metcon) with superset strength training using a noodle and a pair of foam dumbbells.

Minimal splash does not mean minimal effort. The Quiet Burn with new instructor, Donna Boucher, builds muscular strength and endurance with a series of deep water exercises timed at 60 seconds of work followed by 30 seconds recovery. The exercises feature a full range of motion and applied force designed to maximize the resistance of the water and uncover the “quiet burn” below the surface.

Take a break from high intensity cardio and strength training and enjoy a day of active recovery, training other essential fitness components. Aqua Balance & Brain Flow with Maria Teresa Stone is a shallow water neurobic movement challenge that features 45 minutes of lower intensity exercise for both the brain and the body.

 Pick your preferred depth, dive in and get fit with HIIT in the pool. The HIIT Factory is a 52-minute water exercise video that features and epic collection of aqua HIIT.

Bringing a noodle to the pool to exercise with? Cut a noodle in half and bring a half and full noodle for a completely different pool noodle workout. Short Long Strong with Claire Barker Hemings is a 43-minute water exercise video that alternates the use of a short noodle and a long noodle.

The pool wall can be a powerful piece of exercise equipment in a water fitness workout. Join Maria Teresa Stone for Deep Wall Intervals, a 45-minute pool workout that alternates the exercise action on and off the pool wall.