Stretching Your Obliques for a Pool Workout

Video Transcript

"Now in this segment we're going to kind of take it down a notch for the people who are a little less advanced, maybe aren't as comfortable with swimming in the deep end, staying afloat, being able to do a side crunch all the way across the pool. Now you can go where you're comfortable standing in a more shallow area of water but still isolate the same muscles. Now remember in this exercise we're not going to be getting the same cardio feel that we would if you were swimming back and forth from the pool, but that's okay we'll do other things further on in our workout that will kind of compensate for it. We're going to hold on to one edge of the wall and you're just going to pull in just like we're doing a cherry picker except one leg is okay to be on the ground so that you have that comfort zone. Now remember the great thing about the pool is that you're still getting that resistance. The water is still going to be pushing against your quad as you bring your knee into your chest. You're going to get a full crunch all the way in through your outer obliques switching sides, doing it on the other side as well. Hold on to the wall if you're more comfortable. If you don't even need the wall that's fine, you can stand up and just do a full pull all the way through. You're pulling it all the way through so that you feel your knee compressing with all of your ab muscles and you should feel a full body workout as well as your arms collecting all the way down, isolating every muscle in your body with the resistance of the water. It's okay if you're not as advanced, we'll still have other workouts for you."