WATER WORKOUT BLOG

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.

All aboard!  Join Jackie Lebeau for the leg express.  This 15-minute water workout, Glutes & Thighs, features pool exercises for the legs, specifically targeting the glutes and the inner and outer thigh.  The water’s resistance is the only equipment you need, but the Aqualogix Ankle Blades can be added if you want extra resistance. 

Looking for a quick but powerful workout to keep yourself motivated during the holidays?  Join Katy Coffey for Empower Splash, an “Every Minute on the Minute” (EMOM) workout that will challenge you to do a specific number of reps during each minute.  EMOM workouts are yet another popular HIIT-style of exercise. 

High intensity interval training (HIIT) is popular with both instructors and participants.  However, mixing up your workouts with different kinds of exercise is the best way to ensure continued results and the healthiest version of yourself.  Aquatic Layers Remixed is a 45-minute dual-depth cardio workout taught with the layer technique, which features a carousel of changes – one move at a time.   

Gym class was a traumatizing school experience for many people, but everyone gets a second chance to channel their inner-athlete.  Chris LaCour provides just that opportunity in a 30-minute water workout designed to unleash the spirit of champions, featuring patterns and drills from football, soccer, baseball and more. 

Get ready to SWET and WERK!  Join Jenni Lynn for 30 minutes of challenging water fitness that includes wall exercises, strength moves and Tabata rounds.  Water Werk showcases S’WET ™ Fitness’s unique style and signature moves. Get focused and get strong werking the water’s resistance. 

Get out your pool noodle, choose your depth and prepare to burn calories and strengthen your midsection in Cardio Core Circuit.  This 45-minute pool workout, featuring Katy Coffey, rotates between blocks of cardio movements and core exercises and can be performed in either deep or shallow water.

Aquafit participants and instructors get ticked off when others claim that you can’t get as good of a workout in the pool as you do in the gym.   Chris LaCour has been challenging this stigma with his Extreme Aqua workout videos.  He’s back with Xtreme Aqua 3, a workout that features athletic exercises divided into three segments, HIIT, Wall & Strength.  

H2O Functional Flow is from the Fitmotivation instructor archives and blends together low-impact choreography, muscle conditioning and balance training.  Filmed in 2017 during the Tabata craze, this workout was intended to get instructors to think about more than just high intensity and to explore ways to add more purposeful, science-based movement to their classes.