If through all this time, you have seen the pool as an opportunity to drink a fresh fruit cocktail while dipping your toes in the fresh water, then you don’t know what you’re missing! It’s time to once and for all, learn the true and amazing workout benefits water can bring to you. Since it’s 12 times more resistant than air, it makes every move and action you take while in it, a lot harder and effective.
Have you ever wondered how come people mostly prefer exercising in the water (usually pool) when want to work and by build their abdominals? Is water really so effective when it comes to this body part? Why people often claim that the perfect tummy can only be built through water exercises? Well, we think we have found some good answers to all these questions.
Treading water makes you burn more than 500 calories per hour. That means, by burning these calories and spending energy, all the extra fat in your body gets destroyed and burned. When in water, your body needs some extra abdominal moves to keep you breathing and upright. Also, abs work as a powerhouse for helping legs and arms properly move. Using water to work on your abdominal muscles does not only offers many exercise varieties, it is also a kind of workout which gives moderate impact on your joints by keeping them strong without getting injured. Not to mention, water exercises are a lot more fun than any other type performed on land! 😉
Here are some of the most effective and well-known water exercises to form and build your abdominal area…
Jumping Jacks
When done in the pool, jumping jacks exercise goes to a whole new level of professionalism and effectiveness. Jumping jack is an exercise which requires you to jump by rhythmically opening your legs and arms. When in water, you not only have to put through the water in order to jump, your body needs also to keep its balance. This because your natural buoyancy makes you lead behind or forward. For a fuller effect, try to skip touching the bottom of the pool while “jumping”.
Noodle crunch
This is a powerful exercise which requires some serious effort in order to be well performed. Grab a pool noodle and put it under your shoulders. Pull your abs in by performing a crunch. By doing this kind of “crunch”, you train your ab area in an intense way by laterally working them. You also have to work on stabilizing your body in the horizontal and vertical position.
Scissor kicks
This is a pretty simple exercise and yet too effective when working on your abs. Just lay back on the edge of the pool and try to create a V by opening your legs. Bring them rhythmically together with one ankle on top of the other and they repeat this move quickly for both of your legs. This exercise, mostly seem to work on your thigs and quads, but the truth is, this works miracles on your abs too. So, never skip it when working for your tummy area in the water.
Dolphin Kick
Also, dolphin kick exercise gives you an intense abs workout while at the same time your legs and glutes get toned. To best perform this, you need to face the edge of the pool while holding with both of your hands. Try it rhythmically bring your body up while it’s floating face down. Align both of your legs together and kick them up and down in a rhythmical motion just like a dolphin. By performing this exercise for about one minute, and then resting, and then repeating this three more times, will definitely do the trick.
