What is a color-themed pool workout? Six colors are assigned to six base moves (jogs, kicks, skis, jacks, tucks & jumps). Different challenges are assigned to each of the colors, and then they are mixed and matched for some crazy exercise combos. The end-result is a 45-minute intense, but fun cardio pool workout that can be performed in both deep and shallow water.
Colored Inspiration
What’s the backstory behind this workout? Honestly, I was short on my video stockpile and had no one filming this month. Therefore, the onus was on me to come up with a new pool workout. With Easter a month away, I ordered some plastic Easter eggs hoping to come up with some kind of themed content. The six colors of the eggs, and the fact that the eggs could be separated and the colors combined gave me some good ideas. In the end, the content became more color-themed, as opposed to Easter themed.
Creating the Workout
Creating a color-themed workout was easy. The plastic eggs came in six colors, and I assigned each of the colors to a different base move. Pink for jogs, purple for kicks, green for jacks, blue for skis, orange for tucks, and yellow for jumps.
If you are a Poolfit subscriber, you have probably figured out that we do the same base moves and their variations in every workout. Why? Because these are the basic moves that effectively interact with the water’s resistance to provide a results driven workout. Every form of exercise, land or water, has base moves. In water exercise, there really are no new moves. Something that looks like a new move is invariably just a variation or combination of base moves. If an instructor is lucky, they can come up with a new variation or combination.
Below, I talk more about the Egg Splash workout and then read on for an outline of the 45-minute pool workout.
Egg Splash: Workout-at-a-Glance
This 45-minute pool workout includes a warm-up, cool down and six exercise segments that are each 6 minutes long. As mentioned above, this water workout can be performed in both deep and shallow water. There is no additional equipment required, beyond a flotation belt if exercising in the deep end.
Warm-up: Egg Hunt
The six base moves/colors are introduced, with a run between each one.
Exercise Segment 1: Poached, Fried & Boiled
Each of the six base moves/colors is performed in a hard, harder, hardest progression.
Exercise Segments 2 & 3: Message in the Egg – Rounds 1and 2
Since the eggs could be opened, I inserted a message in each egg, providing a challenging variation for each exercise/color. In the video, we do two rounds of “Message in the Egg,” for a total of 12 exercise challenges, each performed for 45 seconds each, followed by 15 seconds of recovery.
Exercise Segments 3 & 4: Scrambled Eggs – Rounds 1 and 2
Additionally, since the eggs could be separated and the colors combined by switching out tops and bottoms, I created challenging combinations of base moves. In the video, we do 12 challenging exercise combos, each performed for 45 seconds, followed by 15 seconds of recovery.
Exercise Segment 5: Scrambled Finale
This segment features all 12 Scrambled Eggs taught continuous for 30 seconds each.
Cool Down: Eggs over Easy
This segment features a combination of dynamic and static stretching for each of the base moves.
I hope you enjoy this color-themed workout and all the water exercise challenges that come with it. If you are patiently awaiting warmer weather, have faith. Spring arrives next week!
Wishing all who celebrate, a Happy Easter!
