Adding Arm Exercise to Aqua Fitness Workouts

Video Transcript

"Okay, in this segment we've just finished up running; our heart is pumping, blood is flowing, we're totally warmed up and we're ready to go. So we're going to kind of cool down. You burn fat a lot quicker when your heart rate is jumping up and down, up and down. So that's why it's good to change up your workouts and isolate from high impact to a little bit lower impact. So we're going to meet more into the center of the pool, about waist deep where you're comfortable with where there's enough resistance so that we're actually still getting our workout. We're going to keep that heart rate going, we don't want it to completely stop. So we're going to continue on. Still doing our high knee in the pool except we're going to be stationary this time. We're not going to be moving from one end to the other. Now to change this workout up we're going to add in small circles. You're going to put your arms out horizontally and just rotate small circles forwards all while doing some high knee lifts. Continue going. You can alternate doing bigger circles, smaller circles, bigger circles and then you can even turn directions. You can go backwards, changing the muscles that we're working on. Now remember it's so important to keep your core completely tight the entire time while we're doing all of the arm movements back and forth. Now you should be continually running. I know it's a lot to think about but think how much you're doing for your body and how much good this workout really is going to do."