BzeetyD ~ PNWA

DoublePortion

@BzeetyD are you wondering what this wonderful new acronym I've created stands for? It's for prenatal water aerobics!

Should my upcoming FET be successful I'd love to continue water aerobics, but my rec center doesn't do a prenatal class. Boo! If you don't mind explaining, what is your PNWA class usually like? One of the exercises I've done at my class is basically like crunches, but it's done while floating with a noodle under my arms. I would think the ab workouts would be a PG no-no? Maybe I should check out the senior's class and see if it's more PG friendly! lol

Thanks for any info you can give!

BzeetyD

Ha ha!

The class is pretty vanilla. We start in the shallow end at a depth that's about mid boob high, we walk with high knees/high steps backwards and forward across 2 lanes wide, we do the same thing but in a CC ski kind of stance, we do the same thing but with karate kicks out to the side, like kickboxing, we do frog type jumps backwards and forwards to open our pelvis.

This time we had neoprene gloves on, like frog webbing and that both helped with movement and helped add resistance.

Then we ride a pool noodle like a horse or bike into the deep end, peddling like on a bike. Quick short peddles, long deep peddles. We extend our arms (left and right) to work on our core and steer us. We do whip kicks and breast stroke type arms.

Not much ab type stuff except working on posture while riding a noodle and using your core for balance while kicking.

Does that help? it's my first class like this. I'm a newb.

DoublePortion

Ok, that doesn't sound too far off from a lot of the exercises my class has done. Yesterday they had us tie floaty belts around our waists and go in the deep end to do bicycle kicks and scissor kicks while using the floaty arm weights. It makes me feel better that they have you do the kicks, that seems to be a big part of the regular classes. I could do flutter kicks with the floaty board while the rest of the class does abs. Thanks for the info!!