Kerry Washington revealed on Tuesday that her go-to pregnancy workoutwas water aerobics and she may be onto something.

When youre pregnant, you feel heavier. But in water, you get to feel lighter again, CeCe Marizu, an Equinox Sports Club instructor and group fitness ambassador for their H20 workouts, tells PEOPLE.

When you get pregnant, you also tend to swell and water takes that pregnant feeling away. A lot of pregnant women have pain in their low back, and a water aerobics class can correct your pelvic tilt. And as far as modifications, you dont have to do a million modifications.Swimming is one of the safest sports.

It also allows pregnant women to be in positions that are not safe for them on land.

When youre pregnant, you can be on your back in the water, says Marizu. You have more freedom to mix up your workouts when youre in water versus when youre on land.

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Whether or not youre pregnant, water aerobics can provide an effective workout without putting impact on your joints like many traditional workout classes do.

Water gives you a natural resistance that still lets you build up your strength without causing injury to your body, says Marizu. Anything you can do on land, you can kind of do in the water. You can do squats, you can do a high-knee march, you can do a run.Well do stuff with your arms where you pull the water down, and then you might grab that buoy as a weight where youre also adding some curls or some tricep extensions.

Being in the water allows people to have a range of motion they cant have on land.

The thing that makes water so special is you can move around all planes, she says. Youre working on rotation, youre working with each sagittal plane, the frontal plane.

It also adds more natural resistance to each move to build strength: a simple kicking move when done in water can work your quads and hamstrings.

You work muscle groups that I dont think people realize that youre working in the water, adds Marizu. Your forearms are a really hard area to target, but even if youre just standing in the water, and you start to move your arms in a figure-8 motion, youre working your shoulders, your delts and your forearms at the same time.

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Kerry Washington is a woman of many talents.

Not only is she a Golden Globe-nominated actress, but turns out, the star also studied traditional martial arts in India, is certified in yoga and has dabbled in water aerobics.

"It's harder than you think," theScandal star told Ellen DeGenereson Tuesday. As Washington revealed to the daytime talk show host, she particularly liked doing water aerobics when she was pregnant. What a lucky coincidenceDeGeneres also likes doing water aerobics in the summer and invited the star to join her. Hey Ellen, can we come, too?

If Ellen is in the market for yoga lessons, Kerry is her galunless you ask the star's mom.

As the story goes, after graduating George Washington University, Washington headed to India for seven months to studytraditional Indian martial arts, cultural movement and yoga and also travel. When she returned, she initially planned to live in New York City as a starving artist, using her yoga skills to make money in between auditions. However, her mother made her a deal.

"My mother said that she would let me live at home if I taught her yoga for an hour a day," she recalled."That lasted for a week."

"She was like, 'I hate yoga and you may not be able to live here if you keep doing this.'"

Ellen, maybe just stick to the water aerobics with Kerry.

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The 40-year-old actress has revealed she used to undergo a "70's style" fitness session, which saw her use dumbbells in the water, whilst she was pregnant with her eight-month-old son Caleb.

Speaking about her exercise plan when she was expecting her second child on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' on Tuesday (06.06.17), the brunette beauty - who also has three-year-old daughter Isabelle with her husband Nnamdi Asomugha - said: "70s-style water aerobics with the Styrofoam dumbbells in the water.

"It was so fun. And it's harder than you think. I love water aerobics!"

Kerry previously decided to try her hand at being a fitness instructor and jetted to India after college to study traditional Indian martial arts and cultural movement where she became a qualified yoga teacher, because she thought she could make a living from teaching the sport.

The 'Scandal' star said: "I went to India after college and studied ... traditional Indian martial arts and cultural movement, and I was studying yoga and I thought, 'I'll be able to make a living when I go back.'

"This was right after college, so I was going to go to New York and be a starving artist and try to be an actor."

However, Kerry's only client was her mother, Valerie, who let her daughter live with her in exchanged for yoga lessons, which didn't go down well with Kerry's parent.

The Hollywood icon said: "My mother said that she would let me live at home if I taught her yoga for an hour a day. That lasted for a week. She was like, 'I hate yoga! You may not be able to live here if you keep doing this.' "

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Splash fitness instructor Kate Thomas (centre) puts Sidestrand Hall School students Tom, 18, and Tiarney, 17, through their paces. The Sheringham centre, which already runs sessions for young people with complex needs, is launching a new series of exercise classes for adults with autistic spectrum disorders. Photo: Karen Bethell

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With upbeat, low volume music, the stress-free sessions have been designed to take into account the challenges faced by people with autism or Aspergers syndrome.

Stephen Mews, who is general manager at the Weybourne Road centre, said that after the centre ran ASD training courses for gym and poolside staff, he was keen to hold classes for people who might find traditional, fast-paced, high volume sessions difficult.

After speaking to customers, we did feel there was a need in the north Norfolk area, he explained. Regular classes can definitely be off-putting for people with autism and Aspergers, so what we have tried to do is to design classes which are small, where people know what to expect, and which give people more time to follow directions.

Splash already runs regular studio-based sessions for students with complex needs from Sidestrand Hall School and Sheringham Woodfields School, where groups of teenagers and their teachers are put through their paces by trained instructors.

Those taking part in the new classes will be given a welcome pack with photographs and information about the class instructor and details about exercises.

Splash staff have also created traffic light-style flash cards, so that people with more severe communication problems will be able to let the instructor know if they are finding any aspect of the session too stressful or difficult.

A quiet room has also been set aside for those needing a break from sessions.

I think the training really highlighted for us that there are changes we need to make to classes in order for them to be successful for people who need something slightly different, Mr Mews said. We have designed them to be suitable for all abilities and hope that by doing this, we can help more people find a way in to fitness.

Autism-friendly classes for adults aged 18 and over will run weekly on Tuesdays between midday and 1pm from June 13. Fees are free for centre members or 3.50 for non-members. For more information, or to book, phone 01263 825675.

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I step into cool water from the shallow end, knowing the quicker I submerge, the easier it is to acclimate to this different world.

On this Tuesday morning, 12 of us stride in rows, pushing through the water to warm up. Floating lane dividers are moved aside for our aerobics class. More ambitious non-class exercisers swim in two lanes reserved for them in this 25 - yard indoor pool at the Morganton Aquatics Center.

Sunshine filters through colored glass window panes. It might be enough light, but far overhead, fluorescent tubes brighten the cavernous space. Sound insulation pads hang from the ceiling reminding me of Mardi Gras with their colors of gold, purple and green.

I suspect all of us envy our instructor's physique. She calls out commands that we aspire to obey, but often cannot. Maybe if I were paying more attention instead of enjoying others' company, I'd do better.

A pal, whom I'll call May, stands a few feet away as we grapple with Styrofoam dumbbells in collarbone-deep water. She tells me about a married couple she knows.

"They used to be so affectionate all the time, even in public."

"No, it was annoying as hell."

We push and pull the weights through the water, stirring up the clean, chlorine scent.

May gives me a look and says, "Now, that same couple is in a Mexican stand-off. Maybe headed for a divorce."

Ah, marriage. We joke about young people not understanding how hard it is.

"Don't they know you want to kill each other half the time? Why, that's what marriage IS."

May is trying to make me feel better because I've told her that loved ones close to me have signed for a legal separation.

The instructor calls out, "Tighten that tummy! Don't arch your back!"

May says, "Another couple I know was so miserable they decided to separate, then wound up violating the separation one night, if you know what I mean."

Pumping my legs in a slow-motion jog, I ask, "Then what?"

May shrugged. "They got back together. Made it work. The child is over 20 years old now."

We both know how unusual such a situation is and are silent for a reverent moment.

Another conversation on the other side of the pool catches my ear, difficult in the echoing space filled with splashes and the instructor's oldies music.

"Did you hear about Mimosa Hills Country Club closing their pool?" one of our classmates asks.

Someone answers, "Yes, they found out it would cost a quarter million dollars to repair it." And with the noise, I can't hear anything else. Was the pool a victim of sudden crisis? Or simply neglected over time so that little by little it came apart?

Sometimes things can't be repaired no matter how hard you try.

I tell May about my loved ones seeing three marriage counselors. She shakes her head.

"Sometimes it's just not meant to be."

Our instructor says, "Listen y'all, I'm sorry about the Mimosa pool situation, but the city of Morganton's outdoor pool is a great resource. We're taking the cover off soon. That's a massive undertaking, by the way, and that pool doesn't get used as much as it could be. When the day cares leave at 3:30, it's deserted."

She brings me back to present hopefulness, back to the possibilities that remain.

Gwen Veazey is a member of the Morganton Writers' Group.

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Brenna Turnbull, Zoe Harding and Caitlin Buckley starred at an aerobics competition in Balclutha recently.

It's been a dazzling start to aerobics for Zoe Harding, CaitlinBuckley and Brenna Turnbull.

The trio, who took up the sport in March at the South Canterbury Gymsports Club, dominated their first tournament in Balclutha last weekend.

They placed 1st in the trio and pair, Harding won the singles, while Turnbull finished third, with a tumble costing Buckley a podiumfinish.

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Caitlin Buckley, Zoe Harding and Brenna Turnbull won their first Aerobics competition that they competed at in Balclutha recently.

Aerobics coach Sally Hart, who arrived in February to coach gymnastics, has an extensive background in aerobics and decided to start it up.

"I'm just blown away with how well the girls did.

"We just sent them down there to have a crack because they were coming alongwell in the five short months they had done the sport but we didn't have any expectations on them."

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Caitlin Buckley practising her aerobics routine at the South Canterbury Gymsports Club.

Hart said seeing the girls do so well bodes well for aerobics in the future.

"I think it's going to be quite popular. We have 15 doing it now but I'm tipping there will be more."

She said the original aim was just to teach the girls aerobics this season.

"We weren't going to send them to any competition, this year was going to be about learning the sport with a view to competing next year.

"These girls just work so well together, they get on great."

Harding is still competing in gymnastics, while Buckley and Turnbull had given it away but were encouraged to give aerobics a go.

"It's great starting aerobics brings the 15-16 year olds back, who were the ones giving it away when they were 12-13," Hart said.

She's looking forward to see how the girls progress but also if they can earn qualification for the nationals in the next couple of months.

Turnbull, who attends Craighead Diocesan, said she didn'teven know you could compete in aerobics.

"I was doing it for fun really. I had no idea we could compete."

She said it was great doing well first up.

Buckley, enjoyed her first competition and was hoping for more.

"It was so much fun. I just enjoyed the competition side of it because I wasn't doing any sport."

Harding said aerobics was a lot of fun and something else to enjoy.

"I'm loving it. We all get on well and we hope to be able to make nationals in Auckland."

Their routine is about one minute 30 long.

They train twice a week and on weekend's in the lead up tocompetitions.

-Stuff

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Young aerobics team prepared to take on state's best school teams.

ON SHOW: Sophie Pietsch and Briney Wright put on a display with their Energetix teammates at Holy Trinity Lutheran School ahead of the state preliminary finals.

HORSHAM Holy Trinity Lutheran Schools Energetix aerobics team will travel to Geelong to take part in the state finals of Schoolaerobics on Saturday.

The team qualified for the in the middle of May and have continued to train hard under the tutelage of coach Amanda Wick.

The girls have been doing six sessions a week since they qualified for the finals, Wick said.

Before that the group had been training together regularly since the start of the year.

Wick has volunteered with the schools aerobics team for the past ten years.

She said she watching the girls enjoy themselves was why she kept doing it.

Their is some new girls in the team and some with a bit more experience, she said.

I think theyre a great team.

Wick did not want to put any pressure on the girls ahead of Saturday.

Our greatest wish would be for them to make it through to nationals, she said.

But all we really want is for them to go out to try their hardest and have fun.

The story Energetix to contest aerobics state finals first appeared on The Wimmera Mail-Times.

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