Pool workouts can get a person through an injury as a cross training tool!

Workouts with the pool can be a perfect cross training workout tool for women or men who have low tolerance to heat in the summer or for people who are significantly overweight or for people who have injuries such as shin splints or IT BAND injuries or even achilles tendonitis. Houston Personal Trainer Melissa loves her pool and even though she herself does not do many pool workouts, she has many personal training tips for making the time in the pool an effective workout (and she loves to wear the sexy bikini). Here is her Free workout for maintaining fitness when injured or cross training. First of all the workout should begin with some Ball wall squats leaning against a ball which is against the wall making sure knees are over ankles . Do this near the pool because that will get the muscles warmed up before getting into the cold water. Three sets of twenty wall squats with a ball should be a good warm up. Once in the pool Melissa recommends doing flutter kicks across the pool holding on to a kick board for ten minutes to twenty minutes without stopping as this further warms up the body and adjusts it to the water temperature. The flutter kicks should be done rapidly and they work the glutes, and quads and the kicking needs to be done with SMALL kicks that are done as rapidly as possible with foot remaining flexible like a dolphin fin. After the flutter kicks, the Houston POOL workout goes to the upper body where Houston Personal Trainer Melissa recommends that the person swim the freestyle or do any arm paddling motion  and do not use the legs at all. Do this across the pool holding a buoy with the knees to keep the lower body from assisting with the workout for ten  to twenty minutes. This is a basic workout and will take up to fourty minutes but will keep conditioning movement going when an injury or hot weather would prevent someone from working out otherwise.

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2011 02:58