prenatal fitness

This week I didn’t accomplish all my fitness goals. It happens. On Saturday we flew back from Raleigh to Boston and then had to drive home from Boston so by the time we got home we were exhausted-hence the scheduled off day.  In addition to being exhausted I was feeling a lot of round ligament pain which was probably brought on by all of the walking and activity during our vacation so I decided that I need to take a full on rest day Sunday to see if that would help, and it did! As for why I missed pre-natal yoga this week…well no (good) excuses but I do plan on going this Sunday!

Goals for Week of 3/9-15:

• Th: 1.5 mile walk
• F: 2 mile walk
• S: OFF
• Su: 2 mile walk
• M: 2 mile walk and/or workout DVD
• T: Pre-natal Yoga
• W: 2 mile walk and/or workout DVD

Actual for Week of 3/9-15:

• Th: 1.5 mile walk
• F: 2 mile walk
• S: OFF
• Su: REST
• M: <–nothing. I don’t know what happened here.
• T: 45 min strength
• W: 20 Min Prenatal Fitness Fix DVD and 10 minutes yoga

When I first found out we were pregnant I was preparing to train for my first half marathon, had canceled by gym membership since I wasn’t using it and was overall pretty active.  My goal was to keep up with this my entire pregnancy and to help me do so I decided to purchase a few prenatal DVD’s to do at home workouts.  After looking over reviews of a number of prenatal fitness and yoga DVD’s on Amazon I finally settled on three- one yoga and two fitness.  One of the fitness DVD’s I chose was Prenatal Fitness Fix with Erin O’Brien which received 4.5 stars and 134 reviews on Amazon, making you think that it was a a great workout DVD.

Well boy was I surprised when I first turned it on and it was nothing like what you would expect from the reviews or the cover.  The DVD is first of so out dated.  I felt like I was watching an old 80’s workout DVD with awful music.  The picture quality was awful, the set up was dim and looked like it had been tapped in her living room one afternoon.  I also felt like the whole workout was something similar to what my mom used to do in our living room when I was a child.

Well I did the workout a few times and just couldn’t get into it at all, it was pretty awful.  Having apparently not learned my lesson this week I decided to try one more time but this time do the partner workout with my husband.  Well let me tell you it was worse than the regular workout.  Calling it a “partner workout” is stretching it a bit or at least it wasn’t what my husband and I were expecting.  We were both expecting to get a workout, but instead the partner part of it was basically me using him as support or resistance while I worked out.  Honestly my husband was just about as thrilled to participate as her husband seemed to be in the DVD.  The partner workout really could have been done on your own using bands and a table or chair for needed assistance; it was actually more awkward to have my husband help me than anything.

Overall this receives a 0 star rating for me.  I would not recommend this to anyone.  I however would recommend the other two prenatal DVD’s that I have been using and I’ll post reviews of those in the upcoming weeks.