Basic Aqua Warm up

[@PDogB]

This is excellent! My very first class starts next month. I will use this warm up! Thank you!

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

Thanks for the nice comment!

[@donnadeknatel5276]

Thanks for the warm up moves and the explanation about the active stretch. Excellent

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

Thank you for watching!

[@kerri-lynbryant293]

Thanks Mark. Been a while. Had a hamstring avulsion. First class back after 7 x months tomozx

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

Good luck getting back into it!

[@bethua8724]

I really like yr warm up stretches

[@Cooking_Patty55]

When you do jumping jacks, should you be jumping out of the wTwr?

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

No.

[@somayehkhatibi2060]

Oh, thanks so much

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

You are welcome!

[@zumbawithsue5357]

Mark, thank you so much. I'm a brand new aqua instructor about to teach for the first time in a few weeks. These moves are simple and I love your explanation what what muscles are stretching too.

[@markgrevelding2590]

There you go!

[@TheTajna]

Thank you!! I am about to have first aquabic class and you gave me great start :)

[@sharonhainesNumber1Red]

My Class tells me they love how I tell them which muscle they are using. The Retirement Home doesn’t allow me to use music though, because they take their hearing aids out to get into the pool. They cannot hear me and the music.

[@tonyaiverson3183]

Great warm up demo! Definitely will incorporate this in my class!

[@fitmotivation-poolfit-videos]

Thanks for your comment!

[@anitafields3898]

You made this so easy to piece together to how you broke this down.

[@sharwil63]

Very helpful, I too am a fairly new Instructor, Thank You!!

[@bronicarroll7280]

I love you soooooomuch!!!! You are just blooming marvelous!!!! Thanks

[@sugarfinkle8116]

Thank you I'm just studying and have been offered my first job your instruction is clear and I like your mention of the muscle grooups

[@kellylakeman3859]

Fantastic! Thank You! I'm a new Aqua Instructor!

[@variousclout908]

me too

[@lhuang8553]

Please include under water movements so i really know if i do them right

[@vipingupta2728]

so simple , yet so effective.

[@sharonhainesNumber1Red]

Question, I can’t get my Seniors to jog, they only walk. I can’t get most of them to do high knees. They only raise their knees as much as they do walking, which is not much at all.Most cannot raise their legs high. When I tell them to kick, they do a slow leg raise, and not a kick. They do everything in slow motion, where they are almost falling asleep. Is there anything I can do, or is this as good as it gets???!

[@markgrevelding2590]

Hmmm....I saw your other comment about the retirement home not allowing you to use music. That is unfortunate. Music is a motivator and would liven up the class. Try interval training with just short bouts of higher effort. If you tell them you just want 15 seconds of the highest effort they've got...and that then you will go back to a moderate pace for 45 seconds...that may inspire them to give more effort in a short doable time frame. That helps them to identify a difference in working levels. This also sounds like the perfect class setting to put more purposeful movement - such as Arthritis Foundation exercises for ROM.

[@sharonhainesNumber1Red]

@@markgrevelding2590 They threw a beach ball to each other today. That got more effort out of them.

[@peggyfifield7956]

is he in deep water during the warm-up?

[@henrybassey7609]

Nice

[@veronikaevers7324]

Wish we could see under water

[@elizabethhill4342]

Nice ideas, but would've been better if you'd shown Underwater views.. Thank you.