Aquajock
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Aquajock
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Hi, Angela / Gogigi:
I don't usually follow a set rotation like those found on the Rotations forum. On weekends I do: one morning extended aqua workout, including deep water work with an aqua jogger (lower AND upper body drills), shallow-water cardio interval work (again getting in a lot of lower and upper body muscle conditioning into the bargain), flutter-kick drills, and ab and upper body resistance work; AND the other morning an extended land workout with one of my patented Cathe nosebleed mish-moshes, about 15 minutes of leg work with an 80-lb weight load for squats and lunges and 11-lb ankle weights for isolated ham work, an extended Cathe ab routine, and then my heavy upper body weight set.
On Mondays I either teach an aqua class at 5:00 or do a Cathe cardio and ab workout at home (again, hammering the mish-moshes), which sometimes incorporates lighter barbell for leg circuit work. On Wednesdays I teach another aqua class; that's constant. The weekday evening workouts last about 90 minutes; the weekend workout usually last about 3 hours each. (Thankfully I'm an early bird.)
Because aqua workouts usually get in a lot of good muscle endurance work (at least, the way I do them), I don't need to lift more than once a week. And because the aqua environment is so joint-friendly, I can go heavier on the impact work in my land cardio sessions.
I would dearly love to start wiggling in another session per week. I've turned in my notice at the club where I'm instructing (that's a long, tiresome story), but I'll continue my aqua workouts as I've described above, just doing them all on my own. I'm hoping, if the staffing changes at my "day job" turn out the way it's been described (another long, tiresome story), some time during the day might free up and I'll have more than a 5-minute lunch break.
Let me know if you have any questions!
A-Jock
I don't usually follow a set rotation like those found on the Rotations forum. On weekends I do: one morning extended aqua workout, including deep water work with an aqua jogger (lower AND upper body drills), shallow-water cardio interval work (again getting in a lot of lower and upper body muscle conditioning into the bargain), flutter-kick drills, and ab and upper body resistance work; AND the other morning an extended land workout with one of my patented Cathe nosebleed mish-moshes, about 15 minutes of leg work with an 80-lb weight load for squats and lunges and 11-lb ankle weights for isolated ham work, an extended Cathe ab routine, and then my heavy upper body weight set.
On Mondays I either teach an aqua class at 5:00 or do a Cathe cardio and ab workout at home (again, hammering the mish-moshes), which sometimes incorporates lighter barbell for leg circuit work. On Wednesdays I teach another aqua class; that's constant. The weekday evening workouts last about 90 minutes; the weekend workout usually last about 3 hours each. (Thankfully I'm an early bird.)
Because aqua workouts usually get in a lot of good muscle endurance work (at least, the way I do them), I don't need to lift more than once a week. And because the aqua environment is so joint-friendly, I can go heavier on the impact work in my land cardio sessions.
I would dearly love to start wiggling in another session per week. I've turned in my notice at the club where I'm instructing (that's a long, tiresome story), but I'll continue my aqua workouts as I've described above, just doing them all on my own. I'm hoping, if the staffing changes at my "day job" turn out the way it's been described (another long, tiresome story), some time during the day might free up and I'll have more than a 5-minute lunch break.
Let me know if you have any questions!
A-Jock