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Summary: great cardio, great fun
Review: loved this video, was alot of fun dancing with other pregnant women going through the same stages of pregnancy as me, i liked seeing women in the different trimesters, made me feel very comfortable, i liked the instructor alot and had a lot of un, this video i recommend, it was great!
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Summary: tons of fun for me and baby to be, i enjoyed this alot
Review: Leisa Hart is incredibly cute and fit during this video, i find her to be smooth and soothing to the soul. Her MBC Yoga was introduced to me a couple years go and I feel in love with it, and then when i got pregnant threeo months ago I was so happy to see that she has a FITMAMA Prenatal video. It is all that i was looking for and more. The Sals was just right, and when I feel really funky I do it twice and skip the yoga until my next workout, that seems to be the beauty of this, yo can either/or. I loved her tips on labor and delivery, but most of all, I just loved watching and the other mommies to be moving and having fun...this was a great video purchase and I loved it!
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Summary: more like 6 or seven stars, great mommy video
Review: tried other tapes during previous pregnancies, but have fallen in love with this instructor, Leisa Hart. Loved the pace of this prenatal workout and really liked how thorough things were taught and explained, never making me fell unsafe or baby unsafe. I liked the smoothness of the voice of Leisa and really couldn't beleive she was the Buns of Steel girl on some videos i already had, she still has a great bod and i love the whole FITMAMA thing, great video idea, great results...loved it, you gotta try it.
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Summary: loved the yoga, very good yoga instruction
Review: I have studied and taught yoga for 22 years and have a great understanding of many forms of yoga. I found Leisa Hart's Yoga Fat Burner to be very good, and I totally disagree with some other reviewer, renkey, who took a rude and overlystated poor position to write a bad review of this video in her attempt to promote another video. Hart is not a yoggie, and does not claim to be one. I have had the great fortune to attend her fitness seminars around the USA and know that she is promoting a combination of yoga, tai chi and pilates based moves to tone and strenghten the inner core muscles. In FitMama, she does a great job of doing this. She is very knowledgeable on getting the maximum results for the body. Many other "yoga experts" do more to promote yoga principles that they in fact are neglecting the safety elements of fitness. Anyone who thinks that yoga is to be taught only by "yoga experts" is wrong. A fitness expert studies all forms of exercise and fitness related fields, and Leisa Hart is tremendous at doing this. She has starred in many top videos and has a broad base of fans, wisdom and conviction. She is very healthy and practices yoga weekly, as well as teaches it to fit and unfit men and women. I wish i lived in Dallas to take her classes, and they are super. FitMama was a great workout for me to do during my pregnancy and I totally loved it. She is gorgeous and exudes confidence, not arrogance like other quote video stars. I love my yoga studies, and love my belief that one can practice safe and effective teachings by listening to others and take whatever piece of wisdom that can gather and make it their own. Hart is a master instructor, and FITMAMA is a masterpiece of a prenatal workout!
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Summary: not for me
Review: I ordered this video and after one viewing, realize it's not for me. I found it boring, so much that I was yawning through parts and fast forwarding. The moves for each segment are very repetitive. Seems like she kept doing the same basic 4 moves over and over for both the salsa section and the yoga. May be good for someone who has never exercised before just to get you moving, but I didn't even break a sweat. Do not recommend.
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Summary: Excellent, Even in Third Trimester!!!
Review: This video is the best pregnancy video ever!!! I have been going to Jazzercise classes and doing the Redbook prenatal video at home. I got this dvd 2 weeks ago and I absolutely love it. I do the salsa and yoga fat burn back to back and it really is a great workout (takes about an hour to do it all). I work my arms, abs, butt, thighs and calves. The yoga fat burn is my favorite part...it really works the thighs good! You will not be disappointed with this video. The moves are easy to do and allow you to focus on form and getting the most from the workout.
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Summary: great prenatal exercises, totally loved it
Review: totally loved being able to sweat with other pregnant women who are in the same stage of life as me...Leisa Hart is really good, she looked fabulous and is an inspiration to me with her great attituded and great teaching. I was lucky enough to see her during an American Heart Association speech and she was so dynamic. Just a month after having her second baby, she was motivating others to get fit or stay fit, to reduce the risk of heart disease by staying active. She wasn't realy muscled up or manly looking, she was very graceful and feminine, we were all very impressed with her style of clothing, her style of presenting fitness and health information, and her style of smile as she said. I loved the salsa routine in FitMama, it was prefect for me...any more of a sweat and I'd put my baby at risk. She tells you safety tips and modifying positions in each workout and is very careful not to overdo it. I loved this video, and will definitely get her postnatal video when it comes out, and after my baby comes out! :-) Leisa Hart is wonderful and I recommend to my other nurses(i'm a labor and delivery nurse) to tell their ob'gyns to recommend this workout, it is awesome.
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Summary: superb instructions, great modifications, best prenatal tape
Review: the best thing about this video is everything, the way it was produced by a nine month pregnant instructor (Leisa Hart) who has produced dozens of popular videos (Buns of Steel, TNT Series, MBC Yoga) that are all fabulous, and the fact that it has simple cardio, yoga toning and stretching segments that are all fully taught with slight modifications for all trimesters. I have tried other tapes, and not a one can compare to this FitMama tape, it is the bomb, an absolute perfect prenatal workout...i loved it and can't wait to get the postnatal. Try it, you'll like [it!!!]
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Summary: great salsa workout, enjoyable yoga and stretch
Review: i found the amount of cardio from the salsa section to be perfect for what my body can handle, as i am not looking to tone up during this pregnancy, rather i am playing it safe and want to stay in shape. I think 20 minutes is great, and if i want to do more, i can add another 5-10 minutes of my own dance routine. The yoga is very good...i read a review someone wrote that was way off based, it sounded as if it was from a friend of another video person, Khalsa's The New Method Pre Natal Yoga, I tried that video dvd and it makes sense why that person wrote so negatively toward Fitmama; if you like that type of yoga(new method yoga), you are not going to like fitness, or if you do, you'll have your own version of safety compared to exercise pysiologists and trainers. Leisa Hart is a fitness expert, she is well known for her safety adn cueing. I have used 20 of her tapes and always loved the way she teaches and she is very highly regarded in the fitness world. Her yoga teaching may seem slow to some, but it is effective. And the points made in that review by renkey are simply not true, any fitness expert will argue that yoga experts use very poor positioning and put the body in stressful positions during certain poses, and Leisa Hart does not do that at all. Hart was 9 months pregnant during filming and she told people to be slow and safe during pregnancy workouts, she was not attempting a richard simmons sweat shop tape, and she was not trying to be a yoga guru with ancient, unsafe poses and chants. That is for some people, but thats not what I got this FitMama tape for, and I surely don't think Leisa Hart intended for anyone to think FitMama was going to be liked by yoggie purists...that review bugged me, and I think people should expect a greap prenatal workout when they buy this video. People that workout for 90 minutes a day, get pregnant, and then try to find a prenatal video to stay in shape are going to have a hard time finding anything to satisfy them, so those kind of reviews will always appear and anything with yoga will cause so-called yoga experts to question anyone from the mainstream fitness world that puts a different perspective on the fine art of yoga combined with the science of fitness. I loved FitMama, and think the majority of us pregnant women will love it too!
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Summary: I Really LOVE This Workout!
Review: **Note: Since writing this review, my son is now 7 months old. I just wanted to update to let each one of you considering this video, that after having my son, I went back to my pre-baby size! I worked out diligently 5 days a week, once a day (sometimes twice a day) and I ate right... well, MOST of the time! ;) This video and the other video I talk about in the following review were SERIOUSLY the best purchases I made during pregnancy. With my first pregnancy, I was pretty much lazy and I was not so fortunate to go back to pre-baby size. Also, lack of excersize during pregnancy made the post-baby weight loss SO difficult!!** Now, feel free to read on for further detail! :)I have enjoyed this video SO much! Not only do I feel 100% better after every workout, but I have noticed my overall energy level improve. It had been well over a year since I last worked out and I was out of shape, but it has been easier (while still being effective) than I had anticipated. I heard from some that the salsa workout was "pointless", but I would HAVE to disagree! It's the most fun part of the video! The first time that I used it, I found myself smiling because I was actually enjoying myself (unlike other workout videos where I find myself wondering "Is it over yet?!" within the first ten minutes.) I work up a sweat without feeling like I'm doing too much, too fast. It really does go at a nice, steady pace. Leisa Hart is not too annoying to watch (as some instructors can be) and it makes it so nice that she is in her last trimester. She encourages you to go at your own pace and to remember that this workout is to keep you fit during pregnancy and to prepare you for childbirth, not as a method of weight loss. I purchased this video at the end of my second trimester after having researched all the videos that were offered. I know that I began a bit late, but I figured that some amount of working out was better than nothing at all. I have been happy not only with the workout, but with the fact that it is not so intense that I feel intimidated. Along with this video, I purchased Prenatal Yoga with Shiva Rae (LOVE that video as well). However, unless you really enjoy yoga and meditating (as I do), you don't need a seperate yoga video. Lisa's Yoga Fat Burner is just perfect! Again, not too much, too fast and she encourages you to go at your own pace. The pace is steady and relaxing, yet it still gives you a workout. This video gives you a well rounded workout. One that is perfect not only for pregnancy, but one that would be perfect for the first few months after pregnancy, when your body not yet ready for intense levels of workout. Not only would this help to prepare you for that time, but it will help it along a lot faster. I highly recommend this video for people of all fitness levels as well as mothers of all trimesters.
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