WATER WORKOUT BLOG

Poolfit is exploring a new category of videos for personal training and rehab/recovery.  These videos will be different.  Instead of a follow-along approach, the plan is that these videos will provide the exercises and suggested sets and repetitions.  Subscribers can do these fitness routines at their own pace and with their own music.  Printable notes will be included in the blog.  Jenni Lynn Patterson-LaCour inaugurates this category with a workout she shared with clients during the COVID lock downs in 2020.  

Poolfit is all about water workouts, but sometimes you just can’t get in the pool.  For this reason, we will continue expanding in-home options so that you can still enjoy low-impact exercise and fitness results.  Grab a mat or a towel and join Jackie Lebeau on the floor for 15 minutes of abdominal and lower back training.

It’s Yoga Week on Poolfit!  Earlier this week, Deep Water Yoga Core Workout with Jackie Lebeau was posted. Now, Jackie is back with a 30-minute chair yoga routine that is ideal for those days when you can’t get in the pool or for when you are looking for some gentle exercise for flexibility and stress reduction. 

Aqua Yoga is a popular way for people to enjoy a mind & body practice without the fear of falling or achieving unattainable body positions.  Poolfit has showcased shallow water yoga, but now Jackie Lebeau transitions a yoga practice into the deep end of the pool.  Grab a flotation belt and two noodles and join Jackie for a 45-minute deep-water yoga core challenge. 

Stretch away tension, muscle soreness and achy joints with a big and bold flexibility routine that is divided in three segments, upper body, lower body, balance and small joints.  Eliza Young and AquaGym Fitness are back with Stretch Flex ROM, a follow-up video that is designed to promote healthy joints and functional fitness by increasing the range of motion (ROM) of the dynamic stretches.

Aqua Gym Fitness is back with workout #15, Unilateral Strength & Power.  This 60-minute shallow water workout features several 6-minute circuits, each include exercises for upper body, lower body, cardio and core.  The twist here is that you get to choose the style of equipment you want to use.  The use of a single piece of equipment provides creative fitness challenges for the core and more. 

Ready for the New Year’s Water Fitness Level Challenge?  Hard, Harder, Hardest with Jackie Lebeau is a 50-minute shallow water cardio workout that includes 4 levels for each move, each progressing in difficulty.  Only one of the levels includes impact, which makes this workout 75% impact free.  But low-impact does not mean low intensity.  This is a hi-energy cardio workout and the perfect way to splash into the New Year. 

This Low-Impact Stepping Workout is a fun way to enjoy cardio in when the weather prevents you from getting in the pool or taking a walk outside.  With or without a step, you will enjoy busting a move with Jackie Lebeau in this throwback to the good ole days of step aerobics.

Flexibility is an essential component of physical fitness.  Dynamic or active stretching is movement that promotes muscular flexibility and joint range of motion.  Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to hold stretches for them to be effective.  This 20-minute active stretch routine is perfect for those days when you want to add more feel-good flexibility movement into your exercise routine. 

Almost everyone hates getting into a cold pool.  Instead of standing on your tippy toes and huddling your arms around you (like I do!), it is best to just rip off the Band-Aid, sink your shoulders and start moving.  The Cold Water Warm-Up features 10-minutes of big moves that can be used as an extended warm-up or for other cardio activity.

AquaGym Fitness™ is back with a brilliant workout that packs a powerful holiday punch.  The 12 water exercises in this routine are added on with progressive repetitions that follow the structure of the song, The 12 Days of Christmas.  Whether you perform this pool workout in deep or shallow water, in December or July, get ready to enjoy 50-minutes of fun and challenging cardio.  

All aboard!  Join Chris on the Dude Move Express.  This 15-minute workout includes two exercise circuits, one using the pool wall and the other featuring HIIT.  These express videos are ideal to keep in your downloads and combine with other full workouts when you want extra cardio, abs, legs, arms, stretching and more.