Continued from Mariah Carey’s Diet.

Mariah Carey’s favorite personal trainer, Patricia Gay, says that that Mariah loves to exercise in the water because “she loves the ocean and the waves. The key to fitness is to do something you love, because if you don’t love it, you won’t do much of it.”

Patricia explains the principles behind the water workout:

1. Aqua exercise is all about using the water for resistance like you would use weights outside of the water.

2. Try to clap your hands in front of you or behind you in the water — feel the resistance and your muscles working. Push against the water with your hands, and it’s like weight training. Depending on how hard you push, that’s the level of weights.

3. When you exercise with weights, such as doing squats, your muscles get stronger but they also get bigger. In water exercises, the muscles get stronger, but not bigger.

4. We often exercise in the ocean. Sometimes we have seen rainbows while working out!