Fitmotivation Aqua Fitness Blog

Ready-Set-Go! Let’s play The Multiplier. This aquatic fitness class cardio format features a fun rep challenge that creates engagement, focus and a fun sense of competition. The entire class is based on just 12 water exercises that are paired into six 2-move combos. You can teach this class in deep or shallow water. There is no equipment required.

Active recovery is essential after a high-intensity workout. Treat your class members to a restorative recovery that includes soothing movement for joint mobility and muscular flexibility. Aqua Restore with Claire Barker-Hemings will help you take away ideas for active recovery for interval training, as well as movement for cool downs.

AquaBata with Melissa Plumeau is a shallow water workout that features 8 Tabata/HIIT intervals designed to challenge your fitness through powerful progressions, grounded strength and dynamic movement.

Take a break from HIIT and treat your class members to a 50-minute moderate intensity aqua aerobic class that can be performed in deep or shallow water. Choose Your Current with Donna Boucher is a dual-depth aqua class that is designed to improve cardio and muscular endurance. Your class members get to pick their depth, enjoying a completely different movement experience based on that depth. Equipment is not required, but a flotation belt should be worn by class members in the deep end.

Coach your aqua class participants how to release their fierce inner warrior. Water Combat with Maria Teresa Stone features 45-minutes of aqua kickboxing choreography.

Join Mark for a ladder challenge that features seven intervals of ascending and descending timing for high intensity cardio that also targets all the major muscle groups with endurance training.

Treat your class members to a class that delivers results by targeting the essential components of fitness with a 3-2-1 circuit approach.

Results matter. HydroCon with Melissa Plumeau is an aquatic fitness instructor video designed to improve class members’ aerobic capacity and muscular endurance. This class template alternates high intensity metabolic conditioning (Metcon) with muscle conditioning supersets that use a noodle and a pair of foam dumbbells.

Going big rather than going fast does not mean minimal effort. The Quiet Burn with new instructor, Donna Boucher, builds cardio and muscular endurance by using a full range of motion and acceleration (applied force).

Give your class members a break from high intensity cardio and strength training and sneak in some active recovery that includes neurobic challenges and balance training. Aqua Balance & Brain Flow with Maria Teresa Stone is a shallow water class format that features lower intensity movement sequences for both the brain and the body.

Let your class members pick their preferred depth for an epic collection of aqua HIIT. The HIIT Factory showcases a variety of intervals on the intensity spectrum, from low to moderate to high intensity.

Get ready to bring a different kind of pool noodle challenge to your aqua classes. Short Long Strong with Claire Barker Hemings alternates the use of a half noodle and a full noodle for a water fitness circuit that alternates high intensity with the short noodles and recovery with the long noodles.