Prenatal Conditioning with Teddi Bryant
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 at
11:00 am
Product Description
Here’s your chance to join one of the famous Hot Mamas Exercise Prenatal Conditioning Classes. Our proven approach will safely work your entire body with a focus on endurance, breathing, strength and core; the areas that are most important for childbirth and new moms. We won’t waste your time going through the motions with an easy workout. This class will make you feel and look great, and very likely make your big day go even easier. Plus you will have a head start … More >>
Prenatal Conditioning with Teddi Bryant
Tagged with: Bryant • Conditioning • prenatal • Teddi
Filed under: Postnatal Depression
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I had been working out regularly before I got pregnant (3-5 days a week)and was “benched” by my doctor for the first trimester. So picking this up at 16 weeks made for a pretty intense workout. (Read: holy crap!) Might have been less so without the 3 month hiatus, but this workout felt like starting over.
This is my forth pregnancy and having come from a pilates/yoga only practice through my last two, I can say this is a thorough, make-you-sweat workout. I would say it is the pre-natal equivilant of the hardest class I took at the gym. This is in keeping with Teddi’s philosophy that women want to feel as much like
“themselves” as possible during a period when so many things are changing.
While this is still too long of a workout for me (6 or 7 circuits, I think) I plan to alternate the first half and second half during the week. It’s also easy to just go as far as you can into it and work up to adding another circuit every week or so.
The icing on the cake is the stretching/abs work segment which fills my void for a yoga class: the music is soothing and still maintains a beat, Teddi is a calming influence and I often find I’m doing the work with my eyes closed. Looking forward to Teddi kicking my not-so-widened rear post-partum, too!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great prenatal workout, especially if you were exercising a lot before pregnancy. I find this DVD is more of a challenge than most other prenatal DVDs. I feel like I actually worked out afterwards!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great program for pregnant women. It is very comprehensive and provides modifications as you move through various months of your pregnancy. I wouldn’t recommend this for those new to exercise. It is intense and you need to be in good shape to tolerate the program safely. The entire program is quite long, but there is a shorter version also offered on the DVD which is nice for when you do not have 90 minutes to exercise.
Rating: 5 / 5
This video is one of the best workout DVDs I’ve tried since the start of my pregnancy (17 weeks). The full video (there is an option to shorten it on extra busy days) is 90 minutes of conditioning, cardio and relaxing stretches. There are different circuits that work on all the major muscle groups (glutes, thighs, shoulders, triceps, biceps, back). There are lower back focused exercises, abdominal breathing techniques, and a lovely and long stretch at the end of the video.
Teddi (the trainer) has a soft and sweet voice but she is able to motivate you to push you through the workout. The three models used in the video are each in a different trimester so you can see the modifications that each one makes to make themselves more comfortable while still getting a great workout.
I’d highly recommend this video to any woman at any stage of pregnancy. I’ll definitley be buying the postnatal workout once the baby comes!
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought a few prenatal workouts and this one is the most like a standard workout DVD. Weights, a mat and a step are kind of necessary. Not too hard, but still effective. I would recommend this DVD.
Rating: 5 / 5