Doing Crunches in Water for Aqua Fitness

Video Transcript

"Now in this segment we're really going to blow you away. Everyone thinks that you can only do crunches on the ground where you have a tight surface behind your back to be able to crunch in. Not so at all. In the water you have the ability to float up on top which therefore it's creating a cardio workout for your entire body to keep it a float. So we're going to do a normal crunch just as if you were if you're on the ground. You're going to go and lay on your back while we're in the pool, you're going to pull those knees inward with both knees in to your chest and do a normal crunch but we're not going to have your arms up by your head obviously because you would go under water. So while we're in the pool we're going to continue to tread water just as we treaded in the beginning. So we're getting that cardio workout, we're working our shoulders, we're working our arms, all while pulling our knees all the way into our chest. Now you should really try to do a full back float while you're doing this. Your head should be all the way back into the water, samick all the way up. Arms float out like this and crunching all the way in. Feel that full crunch all the way up through your abs while we're doing this workout. Now we can make it a little less advanced again if you're not comfortable with treading and only being able to hold yourself up like this. By just simply going up to a wall, putting your arms up on behind and doing the exact same thing except using the wall to stabilize you so that you don't feel like you're actually going to go under."