Working Your Obliques in the Pool Workout

Video Transcript

"In this segment, again we're going to move on down towards the deep end of the water. You don't have to, but it's preferred, it makes it a little more difficult for you. This one is going to be a lot more swimming intensified. So if you're not a great swimmer, we'll move on here from this in a little while to show you what an alternative is to this. You're going to move to one end of the pool and we're going to be really working on our side obliques on each side, individualizing each muscle. Remember it's so important for us to isolate these muscles but to be getting a cardio workout at the same time as well as working from shoulders all the way down to our toes. We're going to begin from one end and you're actually going to do something I call a cherry picker. You're going to reach up as if you're picking for a cherry and you're going to crunch in. Now when we're swimming you're going to do that with your entire body as in a full motion swimming side to side pulling your arms in. Now while I do that you should see this muscle crunch inward all the way. Now we're going to do it in a forward motion so that we swim from one end all the way to the other end. Switch to the other side and continue on and we're going to go back the other direction doing the exact same thing, except pulling the other way. Moving your legs all the way in, your knees should come in all the way into your chest so that you feel a nice diagonal push and pull all the way through your abs down through your legs working out. Now remember we're swimming this entire time, your feet are not on the ground, we're going from one end to the other, so you're getting a cardio workout along with the entire fitness side that we're trying to do."