WATER WORKOUT BLOG

Spring is an ideal time to ramp up the intensity in your pool workouts.   There is no one better to help you do that than the AquaGym Fitness team.  Crazy Combos is a 55-minute high intensity cardio workout that can be performed in both deep and shallow water. Simple to follow along with, each combo features just three moves which keep adding up as the workout progresses. 

Performing “as many reps as possible” (AMRAP) is a popular form of high intensity interval training (HIIT) in both the pool and the fitness studio.  Join Sharlie Peterson, Poolfit’s newest instructor for a high-energy water workout that will challenge you to do one more rep in each round.  Even better, consider some friendly exercise competition with a workout buddy.

Build Ups with Miff Hendriksen is a 45-minute water aerobic workout that features a buildup of intensity as moves are added on in each segment.  Enjoy this workout in either deep or shallow water for a cardio challenge that is designed to burn calories and improve stamina. 

Similar to land-based Pilates training, the Pilates Power workout is entirely focused on training the powerhouse of the body with core-centric exercises.  Using a pair of foam dumbbells and a noodle, this mind & body pool workout starts with a series of basic Pilates exercises and then progresses to planking and teaser challenges.  Designed to provide core endurance and strength, these Pilates water exercises can help improve your efficiency in other exercise or daily activities. 

The intervals are going DOWN in this high-energy water workout.   Designed for both deep and shallow water, the work and recovery cycles get shorter and more intense as this 45-minute workout progresses.  The pace starts out aerobically and then the energy shift as the intervals transition into breathless and heart-pounding HIIT action. 

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.