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Crunch Yoga Mama - Prenatal Yoga

Expand your mind along with your body. During pregnancy is an incredible time to practice yoga to keep your body healthy, your mind stress-free, and to connect to your growing baby.



10 Minute Solution: Prenatal Pilates

This Pilates program is designed for all three trimesters. These quick and easy workouts will work and stretch the core buns and thighs and a bonus workout includes a postnatal routine to flatten the belly in no time.



Gabrielle Reece: The Complete Fit and Healthy Pregnancy

Pregnant with her second child, Gabby worked with a doctor and trainer to film 15 minute workouts from each month of her pregnancy as well as three months after her pregnancy. This DVD covers all 3 trimesters consisting of nine 15 minute exercises that are safe for women during their pregnancy as well as a warm up and cool down As a bonus, three- 15 minute exercises for women post- pregnancy complete with warm up and cool down have been included.

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Sara Hollidays Prenatal Yoga Third Trimester DVD

Feel fit, be strong, and look great during the final phase of your journey to motherhood as you exercise with fitness and health teacher Sara Holliday’s Prenatal Yoga: Third Trimester DVD. Renowned fitness teacher and licensed Marriage-Family Therapist Sara Holliday has designed a prenatal yoga class with exercises specifically focused on the needs of moms-to-be during the third trimester by drawing upon her extensive training in teaching yoga. By the third trimester, many expectant mothers are dealing with all of the changes that their bodies have experienced, including accumulated weight gain associated with a healthy pregnancy and the stress this can have on their bodies. In this ground-breaking prenatal yoga class, Sara Holliday guides moms-to-be with safe and effective postures and poses that help decrease common pregnancy aches and discomfort, such as leg cramps and back pain, that many women experience during the final trimester. Doing the prenatal yoga exercises can also help pregnant women gain increased muscle tone and strength, an improvement in flexibility, and a feeling of well-being. Sara Holliday’s yoga class helps women take time to nurture themselves and achieve the glow that comes with a happy and healthy pregnancy. As a mom of two, Sara Holliday understands the importance of helping pregnant women find balance in their busy lives while connecting with their babies. Taking the time to do the safe and gentle exercises in Sara Holliday’s prenatal yoga program can help pregnant moms stay fit, feel good about their changing bodies, gain a sense of well-being, prepare for a smoother labor and delivery experience, and make it easier to shed pregnancy pounds after the baby is born. Prenatal yoga may have the following benefits. This 37 minute yoga class is specifically designed for the third trimester of pregnancy. The class provides expectant mothers with healthy and gentle exercise during late pregnancy. It allows busy moms-to-be to fit i

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5 Stars Great prenatal yoga class
I’m currently in my third trimester, and I’ve been using Holliday’s DVDs regularly since the second trimester (I started with her second trimester DVD). I really feel a benefit from using them — so far I’ve had very little back pain and I feel pretty limber for a pregnant woman. I just started Lamaze classes and can tell that the breathing I do in the DVD is going to help a lot with that as well.

The issues with the DVD production that some other reviewers have mentioned hasn’t really bothered me. It’s true, though, that the production value isn’t very high and the workout doesn’t seem to have been edited. Holliday makes a few little mistakes when she’s speaking but after you’ve done the workout once or twice you can tell what she means, so that really didn’t detract from it for me. The lack of music doesn’t bother me.

The only thing I don’t like about the workout is that sometimes it seems a little rushed when moving between poses (this happened in the Second Trimester workout as well). In the section at the end where she relaxes each muscle with a deep breath, she goes way too fast for me to actually take deep breaths.

Overall, though, a great DVD. Holliday has a very calm, kind personality and the stretches really feel good. I really anticipate that it will help me with my labor and delivery.

5 Stars Lovely little DVD
My wife tends to put things off . . . she assumed childbirth would work out that way, too. She fully expected to be on the extended trimester plan, giving birth to a post-term infant who was already in medium Fuzzi Bunz.

So, a mere four days before her due date, she decided it was time to start doing yoga. She put this in on a Friday night just to listen. Our son was born the next day.

I’m not saying this DVD started the whole shebang, but it was a soothing way to experience our last night as non-parents. As a practitioner of various forms of yoga, I think this is an excellent DVD to start with . . . or end with, as the case may be.

5 Stars Perfect for Third Trimester
Love this video. I’m a casual yoga-goer and finally found the tape that works for me! The instructor does a wonderful job of keeping a nice pace and walking you through each pose. The routine is challenging enough to keep you interested, and the instructor verbally will guide you if you like to keep your eyes closed or focused on your own body, you do not need to keep looking up at the screen to follow along. I will do this program over and over again until I deliver!

3 Stars It’s not bad, but…
I just got this DVD 3 days ago and tried it once, so I can’t tell if it’s gonna work for me or not when it comes to the program itself, but I’m going to give it a try and do it 2-3 times a week.

The reasons why I didn’t like it so much from the beginning were:

1. I didn’t like that there was no music in the background. It would be easier for me to concentrate if there was music. If you don’t care - it’s obviously not a big deal.

2. I do believe that breathing in Yoga is very important and sometimes I found it difficult to follow Sara’s directions when it came to breathing because for some reason what she says doesn’t always correspond with what’s on the screen. E.g. she says “Inhale, arms up” but the video is showing her with her arms down. I find it quite confusing.

2 Stars Okay, but…
I thought this was just okay. I did feel very relaxed afterwards and might do it again for the stretching. When your muscles are sore from the gym, for example, this would be nice. But it’s not really all that difficult, if that’s what you’re looking for. Certainly not like a yoga class, though I’ve never taken prenatal yoga.

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Pilates in Pregnancy

Everything you need to prepare for a healthy pregnancy, enjoy a healthy pregnancy or get back into shape after pregnancy, safely and effectively. And it doesnt matter if you have never done Pilates before, this program is suitable for all studentsbut don

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2 Stars I wouldn’t call it a workout…
I am glad I rented Pilates in Pregnancy instead of buying it. I hesitate to call it a workout. It was more instructional than something I would actually use as a workout. Maybe if it came with cards (it might if you buy it) telling you what comes next… so you could do it without the dvd when you know the exercises… maybe that would be better.

It is put out by a British woman, so it was at least fun to listen to her talk. There was an “Introduction” section that I watched some of (it was really slow and boring - should have given me a hint as to the tone of the workout!) about neutral spine, breathing, and the pelvic floor.

Next came a warmup - about 7 minutes, only 4 moves. Here is the main defect I see in this workout. Each move has at least a minute of explanation beforehand. You should, I think, be able to select the workout without the explanations. It was ok the first time, but MY GOD, it would be so boring if I was doing it more than once.

There is a workout for Early Pregnancy, Later Pregnancy, and Post-Pregnancy. Here is another problem - if you go to the next chapter (so you can skip the Early Pregnancy section, for example), you have to skip through each exercise separately. I could have gone back to the main menu and skipped to the Later Pregancy workout, but it didn’t seem worth it. SO - had to skip through the 12 exercises outlined in the Early Pregnancy workout before getting to mine. (I am 24 weeks pregnant)

The moves were pretty good, again, but nothing new, and nothing challenging at all. And they spend about 2-3 minutes on each move. First, explain, explain, explain… then set-up. Are you sure you are set up properly? Ok… let’s do the “exercise,” (and I generally use this term loosely with this dvd).

There is only one person doing the moves (there were two doing the warm-up - wonder what happened to the other lady? Maybe she got bored and left…) I think it is the same woman who is doing the voice-over. She is pregnant, maybe 5 or 6 months?

I can’t say much about the moves. Again, nothing new, nothing challenging, I guess it felt good, but I wish I had done something else this morning. SO - back it goes to Netflix. A pilates workout I like better for pregnancy is Jennifer Gianni’s Fusion Pilates for Pregnancy.

1 Star rent before buying!
After reading the reviews posted here I decided to rent it before buying. What a good decision! The pace is just painfully slow. The stretches are all very nice and very gentle, but to be honest I could not even finish it. It stops between all moves to introduce the next move, and while you can certainly fast-forward through those intros, it’s very annoying to have to do that. If you have 1.5 hours to kill and aren’t looking for a good-paced workout, then I guess this DVD would be good for you. I’ll never use it again, though.

5 Stars Cure for my tailbone pain!
I’m in my 15th week of pregnancy and suffered with intermittent but increasing pain in my tailbone for 2 weeks. I walk my dogs about 30-40 minutes per day and was moderately fit/toned all along so this pain was unusual. Putting socks and shoes on or picking up something from the floor was becoming severe agony. I was going to call my doctor to get chiropractic permission but I tried this DVD 1 time and it was like a switch that releived the pain. I felt 95% better immediatly after completing the warmup and early pregnancy portions of the video. I agree with some reveiwers that it seems a bit slow but go with the pace and you’ll feel the magic. It’s not for someone looking to transform their figure or get a good cardio workout- there are other great videos available for cardio lovers.

1 Star Put me to sleep!
This was supposed to be one of the better pilates tapes, but it put me right to sleep. I hated her voice.

I ended up taking a class instead!

2 Stars Slow and boring
The long explanations are overkill, even for the first time you do the workout. It almost put me to sleep. The workout itself is very low-intensity.

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Gabrielle Reece The Complete Fit and Healthy Pregnancy

Pregnant with her second child, Gabby worked with a doctor and trainer to film 15 minute workouts from each month of her pregnancy as well as three months after her pregnancy. This DVD covers all 3 trimesters consisting of nine 15 minute exercises that are safe for women during their pregnancy as well as a warm up and cool down As a bonus, three- 15 minute exercises for women post- pregnancy complete with warm up and cool down have been included.

Selected as one of The Best Workout DVDS by Us Weekly – January 12, 2009 ed.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Excellent video for the physically fit
I haven’t tried all of the 9 months worth of workout videos, yet, nor the postnatal workouts, but I can already tell this is an excellent video workout for the seasoned gym rat. My biggest question about my workouts when I found out I was pregnant was, “What can I and can I absolutely NOT do?” My trainer said she had seen women do everything they normally did until the day of delivery, which definitely did not answer my question. My doctor had different recommendations. She said I should be able to work out and talk the whole time, which is not something I could do in my pre-pregnancy routine.

I find that this video has it all - it combines the strength and weight training I was doing before in shorter and lighter doses with helpful recommendations for modifications for the pregnant woman. It includes a warm up and cool down for every workout. What you really need to know is that equipment is required for this workout. Dumbbells, a yoga mat, an exercise ball, and a band. There may be more to come; I have really only done the second trimester workouts so far. I am very impressed with the quality of the video as well as the information, and I highly recommend this product.

5 Stars great product!
the dvd arrived promptly and in great condition. this is a great workout program for pregnancy.

2 Stars Not What I was Expecting
I was disappointed there was no cardio. I felt that there were too many props which interrupted the flow of the work out, because of this I lost interest quickly.

2 Stars You need a damn fitness ball
This exercise dvd was a disappointment because it didn’t tell me in the overview that you need a fitness ball to complete most of the exercises, at least in month 4 exercises. I tried to improvise but it just didn’t work very well and was extremely frustrating.

5 Stars perfect for intermediate fitness level
I bought this DVD exactly one year ago as I was just entering my 2nd trimester of pregnancy. After the “I’m pregnant, I can eat whatever I want!” mindset helped me pack on unnecessary extra weight, I decided to take things a little more seriously. One comment said that there was no cardio - that is true. However, I would pop this DVD in AFTER a good walk around town. Also, I would try to do 2 if not 3 of the workouts at a time.

Great workout, I was usually sweating beads when I was finished. Yes, there are several needed props (3-5 & 8-10lb weights, fitness ball, towel, resistance band), but they tell you things you can use to substitute. I actually felt that they made the workout more interesting and fun to follow.

Anyway, I strongly recommend this - just don’t use it as your ONLY form of exercise. The workouts only go up to 6 months, but I was using this DVD right up until 40 weeks!

Good luck

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