06/11/2026
🎤 Let’s talk CUEING!
One of the things aquatic fitness professionals do exceptionally well is cue movement. In fact, some of the strongest cueing instructors in the fitness industry come from the pool deck!
Why?
Because we can’t rely on participants simply seeing what muscles are working. Water changes everything.
As aquatic instructors, we lean hard into all forms of cueing:
✅ Verbal cues – what should you be doing?
✅ Visual cues – what should it look like?
✅ Tactile cues – what should you FEEL?
We demonstrate on land what should be happening in the water. We make our movements BIG so the back row can see. We use props, analogies, and sometimes a little laughter to drive the point home.
And understanding movement in water matters! Instructors need to know that buoyancy, drag, weighted equipment, and anchored resistance all create completely different training stimuli. The same movement can challenge entirely different muscles depending on the equipment and environment.
Then there’s the challenge of what we lovingly call…
🙈 “Monkey See, Monkey Do.”
If you pick your wedgie…they will too 😂😬🫢😳
If you fling your hands above the water line…guess what? So will they.
If your posture falls apart…the entire class follows your lead.
In every S’WET training, we help instructors become better communicators, better coaches, and better movement educators. We dive into deck instruction, effective cueing strategies, AEA principles, water tempo, half-water tempo, and how to use them all to create safe, effective, and absolutely dynamite workouts.
Because great instructors don’t just tell participants what to do—they help them understand how it should feel.
🐭 And remember… oversized Mickey Mouse hands aren’t required for great cueing…
…but they’re definitely encouraged. 😂🌊
