The Perfect Pregnancy Workout vol. 1 | 
| Director: Elisa Llamido
Actor: Karyne Steben
Studio: Far Star Productions, Inc.
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  213 reviews
Sales Rank: 1338
Format: Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Unknown)
Number Of Items: 1000
Running Time: 43
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 183890000029
EAN: 0183890000029
ASIN: B000BLKJ5E
Release Date: December 1, 2002
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Description
You've got nine months to prepare for the challenge of your life. Use every minute! The Perfect Pregnancy Workout will: -improve your mood -reduce lower back pain -develop mental discipline to control labor pain -tone your lower body to handle the demands of labor and birth -make it easier to lose weight after your baby is born -strengthen your upper body to lift and hold your baby -help eliminate or avoid incontinence and hemorroids Karyne Steben, a world-class acrobat formerly with Cirque du Soleil, leads us through the sculpting workout, combining strength moves with graceful flexibility. First time exercisers can feel at ease; Karyne illustrates exercise techniques and explains the dos and don'ts of exercise during pregnancy in a clear, easy-to-understand twelve-minute instructional section. With options to make it fun for beginners and challenging for advanced exercisers, anyone can do The Perfect Pregnancy Workout! The Perfect Pregnancy Workout video is a 43 minute pregnancy exercise video: 5 minute warm-up, 33 minute workout, 5 minute cool down. There is also a 12 minute instructional section explaining proper technique for pregnancy exercise. *The Perfect Pregnancy Workout includes exercise variations for women with diastasis recti.*
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 Should be called the 1990's low impact pregnancy workout December 4, 2008
This video is not worth $1. I'm extremely surprised that it received so many positive amazon reviews. The production is low-budge, the voice over is annoying and it's not a challenging workout. After 5 minutes of stretching, the workout begins with astep-aerobics a portion. Like most people I konw, I have not done step aerobics since the 90's and don't care to start up with it again. Following the step aerobics are various exercises using chairs, weights, floor, etc. follow in a disorganized fashion. I have the Pilates during Pregnancy video by Niece Pecenka which works the same muscles, but is of better quality and offers a much better workout in my opinion.
 Great beginning workout video November 30, 2008
I bought this dvd at 4 weeks (I know, very early!) and have been using it for the last 6 weeks, along with her sister's, vol. 2 and Pilates during Pregnancy. I have not had extreme morning sickness, but I certainly haven't been feeling like myself. Before I became pregnant I would classify myself as an intermediate in workouts, I typically do calisthenics and pilates at home on dvd. While pregnant I find I am tired and much less motivated to work out. So these videos have been great at just getting me up and moving, stretching and giving me a boost of energy. As some women mentioned, her voice is dubbed over the video, which I think works very well. There is no huffing and puffing or change in clarity. I find her accent charming and her tone soothing. The Kegel exercises are a real bonus, I'm not sure how many others focus on this, but it's something I think about as I get later into pregnancy and worry about sneezing or laughing too hard! Hope you enjoy and have a happy and healthy pregnancy.
 challenging, yet rewarding November 25, 2008
I bought this based on the great reviews I read...I think they are right on. It's a challenging workout (more so than any other prenatal workout I've tried) but not so challenging that I feel discouraged. When I've missed a few days, I can definitely feel it--a good kind of sore!
I love the warmup and cool down, all the stretching and emphasis on breathing does wonders for my aching back!
Bustin a sweat November 25, 2008
I Like to do challenging work-outs>>.shes very good!!!! at first the video was a little confusing...but see the preview of the workout before so you can have everything ready!!!!!!
Not all it is cracked up to be November 25, 2008
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To start out I am a very active person and consider myself to be in pretty good shape. I have done a lot of videos before I was pregnant and catch on quickly. I got two videos hoping to alternate them with the days I do my cardio. I will write about the videos separately.
The first one was The Complete Pregnancy with Erin O'Brien. I really enjoyed this video. At times it got my heart rate up and my legs were even a little sore the next day. I wish it would have had a little more upper body work and stretching but overall it gave me a good workout. I would recommend this video. I will continue to do it.
The next video I did was The Perfect Pregnancy Workout With Karyne Steben and it was absolutley the worst video I have ever done and believe me I have done my fair share of workout videos. Everything was so random in it. There was no flow of exercises. One minute I am using a bench, then I am using a chair, then I get weights, then I am on the chair again changing its position, then I am on the floor, and then I am standing with weights again. I felt like I was just jumping from one thing to another. I probably got more exercise moving equipment than I did doing the video. It feels like the last five minutes of the video I am doing arm circles with the weirdest music playing. My heart rate never got up and I don't feel like I even worked my muscles. Besides all that her voice is recorded. I was very disappointed with this video after all the great reviews I saw. I am now going to have to order another one because this video will not cut it. I would not recommend this video to anyone.
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