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.
Poolfit has many dual-depth pool workouts that can be enjoyed in both deep and shallow water and there is a reason for that. Creating a workout that can be done in both depths with minimal modifications creates the best user experience. Many subscribers have a strong preference for either deep or shallow. If someone has lots of joint impact issues, they may prefer the zero gravity and zero impact of deep water. If someone does not have strong swim skills, they obviously will feel more confident exercising in shallow water. Sometimes people don’t have a choice. The pool they have access to may only have a usable deep end, or no deep end at all. For subscribers who have access to both deep and shallow water, exercising along with a video in both depths can provide a completely different movement experience.
Class-at-a-Glance
Choose Your Current is a 50-minute dual-depth workout that uses freestyle choreography and includes a warm-up, four movement Currents, a grand finale Current and a cool down. At the beginning of the workout, participants choose their preferred depth and remain there throughout the workout as movement patterns evolve through guided progressions, travel, and choreography. Equipment is not required, but a flotation belt should be worn in deep water.
Below, Donna talks more about the video and then read on for a summary in her own words regarding her inspiration for this content.
Current Inspired
By Donna Boucher
Choose Your Current was created around a simple idea: one workout design can create two completely different movement experiences. In this dual-depth workout, participants choose their depth before class. The unique properties of the water create two distinctly different movement environments depending on the depth you choose. Throughout the workout, evolving movement patterns unfold through changes in tempo, travel, range of motion, using freestyle choreography. Simple movements gradually connect, layer, and build into mashups. A Grand Finale that brings the entire experience together.
Choose Your Own Current demonstrates how one connected class experience can create two unique journeys through movement while bringing participants together through energy, challenge, and fun.
Poolfit extends a big thank you to Donna for sharing her favorite classes with subscribers. If you love exercising in deep water, be sure to check out her debut video – The Quiet Burn. Stay tuned for two more workouts with Donna posting this Fall.
