Anne's Deep Water Aqua Combos
This is an
Aquatic pattern from
www.turnstep.com.
(pattern 16645)
After a warm-up:
Combo 1
- Jog (push hands or weights down at sides, alternating arms)
- Wide jog (left arm up, right arm up, both arms up)
- Tuck unders (high knee jog with opposite hand scooping under opposite knee)
- Sprint (run at "your own personal best speed")
Combo 2
- Opposite heel touches in front
- Hamstring jog
- Opposite elbow to opposite knee
- Weights on shoulders -opposite elbow to opposite knee.
Combo 3
- V-sit crunches
- Crunches
- Tuck and roll side crunches (tuck knees into chest. Roll side to side)
- Tuck and knee left crunches (knees tuck into chest, turn knees down towards pool's bottom)
Combo 4:
- Jacks
- Jacks with tuck and breast stroke arms. Reverse breast stroke, if desired.
- Jacks with "L arms"
- Sitting jacks (legs out in front of you, like you're sitting in a lounge chair, open and close)
Combo 5 (I usually do this combo in shallow water)
- Bicep curls, palms up
- Bicep curls, palms down
- Tricep kickbacks
- Punching arms (Punch down towards opposite knee, then turn palm up)
Combo 6:
- Diamonds (frog legs) (First do vertical, then sitting in a chair, then all the way up to the surface)
- In, out, open, close (Bring legs into a crunch, push out, open legs wide, close. Repeat)
- Windmills. (Lay on water's surface. Touch opposite hand to opposite foot)
- Stacking crunches. (Stack one foot on top of the other. Lift and lower the "stacked" foot)
Combo 7
- Corss country ski
- Cross country ski with both arms pulling up, then pushing down (together)
- Cross country ski with jumping jack arms
- Cross country ski, add a tuck in the middle
Combo 8
- Straight leg forward (opposite hand reaches for opposite foot, leg is straight, alternate)
- Side flutter on right side
- Straight leg forward
- Side flutter on left side
Combo 9
- Flutter front (on your stomach)
- Flutter front (legs shoulder width apart)
- Flutter back
- Flutter back, legs shoulder width apart
Combo 10
- Moguls (downhill skis)
- Crunch left, middle, right
- Crunch shoulder width apart
- Shoot throughs (This is like a down hill ski, but legs go all the way to the surface)
Combo 11
- Vertical flutter
- Wide jog
- Vertical flutter
- Wide jog
Combo 12: (Come to the wall in the shallow end)
- Tuck, tap, tuck, down (Tuck knees up, tap feet on the wall, tuck and put feet on the bottom of the pool)
- Oblique tap (Turn towards the shallow. Tuck knees up, tap feet to the side, tuck, down)
- Oblique tap -- opposite side.
- Inverted crunch (Lay on stomach -with arms out in front of you. Tuck knees into chest and pull noodle (or weights) down to meet your knees, extend)
Yes, I know, this is a lot of info. I pick and choose from these combos (except in my more challenging classes). Moves can be done with or without added resistance of weights, etc. I also add movement (eg. jog), as applicable. Some ideas are: jog forward for 16, jog at a right diagonal for 8, jog left diagonal for 8, turn and face the other way, repeat movements --then take it backwards). I usually do each move for 30 seconds - but time can be extended, or shortened, to fit your needs. Have fun!
Cool down and stretch really well.
Added by
Anne
at 5:58 PM on Friday, October 19, 2007 EDT.
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