Aquatic exercise includes aqua aerobics and fitness swimming. This page provides techniques and guidelines useful for both participants and instructors/coaches.
Aqua Aerobics
Aqua aerobics is a type of exercise performed in shallow water in a vertical position while standing on the bottom with the face out of water. It relies on the resistance of the water around each participant to make simple movements into low-impact fitness maneuvers.
Aqua Aerobic Exercises with Jamie Smithers
These techniques include deep water skills for more advanced participants with good swimmiong skills.
- Stretching
- Warming-up
- Treading water
- Adding arm circles
- Kickbacks
- Adding arm circles to kickbacks
- Crunches
- Reverse crunches
- High knee runs
- Controlling your heart rate
- Obliques
- Stretching the obliques
- Around the worlds
- Slowing down the workout
- Stretching after the workout
Aqua Zumba®
Aqua Zumba is a combination of Latin dance beats for dance exercises integrated into a water-based workout.
Certification Programs
- AEA: Aquatic Fitness Professional
- Aquatic Fitness Professional Association - International
- Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
Other Pool Exercises
- 50-10 hydro training (Jeff McDaniel)
- Aqua Jogging (QuixoticRacing)
- Navy Seal type workout (Master Tran)
- Noodle workout (carolargo.com)
Fitness Swimming
Fitness swimming (also called lap swimming) is a form of aerobic exercise performed by swimming several lengths (or widths) of a pool in a continuous manner.
- Equipment
- Etiquette
- Music while swimming
- Workout techniques