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 Crunch Yoga Mama - Prenatal Yoga
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| Crunch, a New York-based gym, keeps bringing innovative and hip exercise videos to VCRs across the country. You don't have to be in a metropolitan area to experience cutting-edge fitness trends and formats because Crunch: Yoga Mama delivers an effective (and chic) pre-natal workout that can be done in the comfort of your living room. Instructor (and pregnant woman) Sue Elkind leads this 40-minute workout with concise descriptions and a healthy knowledge of yoga as it relates to pregnancy. The content here provides a workout that is both safe and efficient, with great attention to participants' individual fitness levels. This session is presented with a backdrop class (consisting of women in various stages of their pregnancies) that demonstrates modified and more challenging options to each pose. Pregnant participants may find it more appropriate (and less annoying) to take direction from another pregnant woman rather than an ultra flexible, ultra thin (non-pregnant) instructor. Basic postures within yoga are taught with intensive focus on breathing, flexibility, and the constant connection between mind/body (and mother/child). Some poses are altered to accommodate the roundness of the midsection with constant awareness of spine alignment. Elkind gives special attention to balance as she slowly increases the intensity of postures. After a series of basic poses are performed, Kegels are practiced (which strengthen the pelvic floor), and meditation closes out the workout. This basic format is friendly for beginners, pre- and post-natal women, or anyone who requires modifications. This safety-conscious video offers a simple, straightforward workout with real potential for increased strength and flexibility. Props needed: a blanket or pillow, a mat, and (especially if you are expecting) a chair. --Olivia Voigts Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
I like this DVD. The instructor is warm, pregnant and very reassuring. It's not what I would consider "yoga" - sure the stretches are there, but the music in the background is I'm not quite sure what. All in all, not a bad workout and good for a much needed stretch, but pretty middle of the road.
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Author: Guest
I enjoy this video very much. I was not a workout "freak" before pregnancy, but I did exercise. I enjoy the stretching in this video, especially after a long day of teaching. I find that my back and legs hurt after work; this video helps me de-stress. I use this video about 4x a week, so yes, Sue does get "corny," but who isn't corny after the 40th time you've viewed a video?
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Author: Guest
I have been doing yoga for about 5 years now. This video just did not seem to flow. I would have liked more stretching and loosening of the muscles. The instructor was adorable and fun, but more fit for an aerobic type video. With yoga, I would rather see a calm, almost "ethereal like" instructor. I like Shiva Rea's Prenatal much better!
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Author: Guest
This is a good video to get an idea of what poses you can do during pregnancy. I've been doing yoga DVDs at home for a couple of years and needed some extra guidance for prenatal modifications. There's not enough explanation of why the poses are benficial to a pregnant woman. Would have liked a little more info about what not to do in yoga while pregnant, so I could modify some of the poses in some of my other tapes which I actually like.
This doesn't give much direction beyond finding the pose and the instructor making some corny remarks. The breathing pace seemed off as well, especially if you get winded easily as I do since I've become pregnant.
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Author: Guest
I liked this video because it included a lot of the yoga I had become familiar with in my non-prenatal yoga videos. It was a good workout with modifications that were really helpful for some of the problems I have already developed in my pregnancy, not to mention my lower back which is a problem in and out of pregnancy. As I read in some other reviews of this product, she is kind of slow and quite sappy! All I really cared about is a good workout, so it was fine.
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