Pilates in Pregnancy
August 31, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 07/13/2004
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Slow and boring
The long explanations are overkill, even for the first time you do the workout. It almost put me to sleep. The workout itself is very low-intensity.
1 Star Put me to sleep!
This was supposed to be one of the better pilates tapes, but it put me right to sleep. I hated her voice.
I ended up taking a class instead!
5 Stars Cure for my tailbone pain!
I’m in my 15th week of pregnancy and suffered with intermittent but increasing pain in my tailbone for 2 weeks. I walk my dogs about 30-40 minutes per day and was moderately fit/toned all along so this pain was unusual. Putting socks and shoes on or picking up something from the floor was becoming severe agony. I was going to call my doctor to get chiropractic permission but I tried this DVD 1 time and it was like a switch that releived the pain. I felt 95% better immediatly after completing the warmup and early pregnancy portions of the video. I agree with some reveiwers that it seems a bit slow but go with the pace and you’ll feel the magic. It’s not for someone looking to transform their figure or get a good cardio workout- there are other great videos available for cardio lovers.
1 Star rent before buying!
After reading the reviews posted here I decided to rent it before buying. What a good decision! The pace is just painfully slow. The stretches are all very nice and very gentle, but to be honest I could not even finish it. It stops between all moves to introduce the next move, and while you can certainly fast-forward through those intros, it’s very annoying to have to do that. If you have 1.5 hours to kill and aren’t looking for a good-paced workout, then I guess this DVD would be good for you. I’ll never use it again, though.
2 Stars I wouldn’t call it a workout…
I am glad I rented Pilates in Pregnancy instead of buying it. I hesitate to call it a workout. It was more instructional than something I would actually use as a workout. Maybe if it came with cards (it might if you buy it) telling you what comes next… so you could do it without the dvd when you know the exercises… maybe that would be better.
It is put out by a British woman, so it was at least fun to listen to her talk. There was an “Introduction” section that I watched some of (it was really slow and boring - should have given me a hint as to the tone of the workout!) about neutral spine, breathing, and the pelvic floor.
Next came a warmup - about 7 minutes, only 4 moves. Here is the main defect I see in this workout. Each move has at least a minute of explanation beforehand. You should, I think, be able to select the workout without the explanations. It was ok the first time, but MY GOD, it would be so boring if I was doing it more than once.
There is a workout for Early Pregnancy, Later Pregnancy, and Post-Pregnancy. Here is another problem - if you go to the next chapter (so you can skip the Early Pregnancy section, for example), you have to skip through each exercise separately. I could have gone back to the main menu and skipped to the Later Pregancy workout, but it didn’t seem worth it. SO - had to skip through the 12 exercises outlined in the Early Pregnancy workout before getting to mine. (I am 24 weeks pregnant)
The moves were pretty good, again, but nothing new, and nothing challenging at all. And they spend about 2-3 minutes on each move. First, explain, explain, explain… then set-up. Are you sure you are set up properly? Ok… let’s do the “exercise,” (and I generally use this term loosely with this dvd).
There is only one person doing the moves (there were two doing the warm-up - wonder what happened to the other lady? Maybe she got bored and left…) I think it is the same woman who is doing the voice-over. She is pregnant, maybe 5 or 6 months?
I can’t say much about the moves. Again, nothing new, nothing challenging, I guess it felt good, but I wish I had done something else this morning. SO - back it goes to Netflix. A pilates workout I like better for pregnancy is Jennifer Gianni’s Fusion Pilates for Pregnancy.
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Body for Life for Women A Womans Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
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Body for Life for Women A Womans Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
The bestselling Body-for-Life
10 Minute Solution Dance and Tone Kit
August 30, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
10 Minute Solution Dance and Tone Kit
NO TIME TO EXERCISE?We have the solution for you the 10 Minute Solution! Everyone can find at least ten minutes in their day and we ve developed 5 dynamic workouts that are just 10 minutes each. The workouts will slim down your entire body and help you sculpt irresistible dancer s curves using the dance toning band. Compact and ultra-efficient you can split these routines into 5 separate workouts or do them all together for the ultimate dance and tone workout!SEXY SLIM DOWN Burn off calories with these easy-to-learn moves that will have you looking slimmer and feeling more confident.HIGH ENERGY FAT BURNER Have a blast as you blast away fat with this high energy dance.DANCER S ABS Shake and shimmy your way to a sleek and sexy midsection with these belly moves.UPPER BODY TONE UP Dancers always have gracefully sculpted upper bodies and great posture. In this segment sculpt your own dancer s body using slow controlled movements along with your toning band.BUNS & THIGH SCULPT Great legs are among the most noticeable traits about a dancer–and they can be yours too! Add the toning band to ballet-inspired exercises to attain a firm lifted bottom and gorgeous lean legs.System Requirements:Length: 57 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:
The Sensual Massage Kit Massage for Men and Women Instructional Video 2 disc set Blu ray
August 28, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
The Sensual Massage Kit Massage for Men and Women Instructional Video 2 disc set Blu ray
The Sensual Massage Kit: Massage for Men and Women
The sensual massage kit for men and women is the perfect gift for couples who just want to have fun. This video set will teach you how to transform your current technique into a guaranteed pleasurable experience each and every time.
Have you lost that spark in your relationship?
Do you need a new way to re-connect?
Are you looking for a romantic escape?
Do you want to set the mood for a fantastic first time?
Do you want a deeper connection in your relationship?
Are you looking for the perfect gift to spice things up?
This two video set shows just how to set the right atmosphere and conduct the perfect massage for intimate pleasure. Learn the tips and tricks on how to touch someone in a way that makes them feel special and feel relaxed making way for the ultimate sensual experience.
The largest sense organ on the human body is the skin. Learn how to touch someone like they ve never been touched before. Learn how to take advantage of commonly overlooked areas to provide the maximum pleasure. Turn your lover s body into one large erogenous zone through the techniques we teach you.
Watch and learn from our nearly three hours of massage information in the comfort of your own home. Our couple rubs each other while a narrator gives you direct step-by-step instruction of just what to do. Just sit back, relax, and follow the simple procedures. You can t go wrong.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Amazon cheat me!!!!
The Box only come with 1 disc only, not 2 as description, and the picture looks like DVD, not blu-ray! I strongly recommend you don’t buy it, it’s kind of waste my money, I had felt disappoint!
5 Stars Very nice…
Very nice set full of good information. I think it’s just right for people who want a little spice in the relationship…
4 Stars Great valentine’s day gift
I got this as a gift for someone special for valentine’s day. I can say we didnt watch the whole thing. This turned out to be a great gift and we had a very special day.
This is something pretty cool if youre looking for a sexy gift
Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
August 28, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
The gold-standard text in maternity and pediatric nursing for LPN/LVN students
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars average
It wasn’t in as good condition as advertised but it definately will do. I don’t like how you dont know when your going to receive the book. I ordered two books at the same time. One for my friend and one for me. I had mine sent to my house and her’s sent to her house. She got her’s a week before me and mine was supposed to be in better condition then her’s and it wasn’t. Not the end of the world, but a little confusing.
1 Star Unexplained
I never did receive by book nor an explanation of what happen to it. First time sellers I would not purchase from anymore.
4 Stars book for school
Considering this is a book for class, it is overall a pretty good text. Very well illustrated
5 Stars Excellent book
As a nursing student myself, this is an excellent book for those who are going into OB. Easy reading, very informative for OB, but Peds not so much. Other than that, it’s an excellent book.
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The Elusive Orgasm A Womans Guide to Why She Cant and How She Can Orgasm
August 27, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
The Elusive Orgasm A Womans Guide to Why She Cant and How She Can Orgasm
“An outstandingly readable book, with excellent illustrations.” — Professor Rosemary Coates, Sexology Programs, School of Public Health, Curtin University
“Informative, reassuring, practical.” — Sandra Pertot, PhD, clinical psychologist, sex therapist, and author of When Your Sex Drives Don’t Match
“The best book, hands down, for women whose orgasms play hard-to-get!” — Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot, authors of I LOVE FEMALE ORGASM
“The fortunate reader will get accurate information, reams of useful quizzes, excellent diagrams and sensible advice….” — Leonore Tiefer
“[This] is more than a guide to having orgasms; [it's] about having good sex.” — Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great book
This book is definitely helpful to anyone having trouble with orgasms. Most of the difficulty was in my head (upbringing, religious background, lack of knowledge). It also addresses health issues and other issues that may be affecting your orgasm or lack thereof. There are some parts in the book that are redundant, but overall this book is excellent and helped solve my problem!!
5 Stars great for information
I got this book and also 5 minutes to orgasm, but this book is great for people who have problems with orgasm in general. I found this is espesically helpful for women who haven’t (or just aren’t very good at) masturbating which is where a lot of young women have problems. The author is an expert and has tons of knowledge and experience helping women, plus she writes in an informal way that’s fun to read. I love this book! It helped me after only the first couple chapters. It also has trouble shooting for lots of various problems, not just for newbies. If you can orgasm, but not during sex I recomend 5 mintues to orgasm, it is much more geared to that specifc problem.
4 Stars Helpful Book.
This book was helpful in helping me to overcome my orgasm difficuly. The good thing about this book is that it describes all the problems women have orgasming in depth, and instructs the reader on how to overcome these problems. My only complaint about this book is that the author feels the need to constantly remind the reader that you don’t have to orgasm if you don’t want to. I found that continous restatement annoying. If I didn’t want to orgasm I wouldn’t have bought the book.(Hence the four stars instead of five.) However, this book was very helpful to me personally and I believe that it is the only book of it’s kind for helping women overcome orgasm difficulty. I would definitely recommend it.
5 Stars Invaluable Book for both Sex Therapists and the General Reader (Men and Women!)
As a practicing gynecologist with a speciality in sexuality I am thrilled that this invaluable book will now be available to a wider audience. Its practical suggestions, presented in clear and straightforward language, cannot help but improve the sexual satisfaction of everyone who reads it. And sex therapists will also benefit from the wisdom Dr. Cass has accumulated over decades of clinical experience.
Walk With Joyce Vedral Low Impact Walking Workout
August 27, 2009 by A Woman's Health · Leave a Comment
Walk With Joyce Vedral Low Impact Walking Workout
Studio: Bayview/widowmaker Release Date: 02/26/2008 Run time: 62 minutes
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Perfect for people like me who aren’t
This is a long review that includes another Joyce Vedral DVD, her building bone workout with weights. I hope those who are trying to get back into exercising and getting in shape after a long hiatus will find it useful.
I returned to Joyce Vedral 15 years (and +75 lbs.) after I’d first fell in love with her 12-minute Workout. (I have never looked better in my life!) I first got the Bone Building DVD and book, but I waited to begin any workouts until I got the Walking one. It’s been a real relief to me because, first, Joyce is about my age so I can see that it is possible for me to “get there” and, second, because Joyce’s funkiness and occasional klutziness and counting goofs put me enough at ease that I feel like it’s okay not to be perfect and I can laugh about it. I can’t tell you how far that goes in keeping me motivated to keep working out.
My body is nowhere near in good shape, and I’ve been pretty chronically ill, so I’ve been putting off exercising out of fatigue and for fear of injuring myself. So I made these simple commitments to myself:
1. I’ll put on my exercise shoes/clothes and show up at my computer (on which I watch the DVD) not later than 10 a.m. each morning, seven days a week.
2. I will work out for half an hour; more if I feel like it later (the Walking DVD is an hour), but that’s it for now. (My first priority is making this a habit, getting addicted to doing it every day.)
3. I will WATCH the workout if I don’t feel like doing it, imagining myself going through the motions. (Usually what it means when I tell myself “I don’t feel like it” is that I just don’t want to spend the time doing it–what I feel like has nothing to do with it. So if I make myself spend the time anyway, if I really DON’T feel like it, I can just sit there doing imaginal rehearsal [google it]. But I have to mentally go through the motions to help build the habit of doing it.) In almost two weeks, I have not sat there once because the time goes far more quickly when I’m up and at it!
4. If I have to skip a day for any reason, I will make up that day the next day, no matter what, or (preferably) anticipate skipping and double-up the day before. (I just deliberately tried that to see how it would go, and I was able to do both the Walking and Bone Building workouts one right after the other with only a little rest time in between. But I don’t intend to make skipping a habit.)
So here’s my routine for my first two weeks (I broke in with weights 0-1-2 for the Bone Building workouts, and will up them next week to the “starting” 1-2-3):
M-W-F Walking with Joyce (half the workout, building up strength and aiming for the full workout later)
T-Th-Sat-Sun Bone Building Workouts 1/2/1/2
I use an Exercise ball instead of a weight bench for the few Bone Building exercises that require lying on the bench, because I was using the excuse of not being able to afford a bench to not exercise. I just put my upper back on the ball and rock back some, with my knees bent and feet on the floor to stabilize, and it works great. Then I sit on the ball in front of my computer when I’m done with the workout to read my email!
I haven’t yet taken my measurements and weight for the second week, but after my first week of the above lighter schedule, I’d ALREADY lost inches and two pounds, even without doing any kind of dieting and not even doing the workouts with all the weights or (with the Walking one) for the whole time. And I NEVER lose two pounds in a week, even if I’m strenuously dieting. The best thing is that I FEEL so much better! Energetic! Needless to say, I am very encouraged.
All this said, I’d recommend those who are badly out of shape to start with the Walking video. The Big Band (second) portion of that DVD goes through some of the same body movements for different body parts as her weight-lifting routines, just without the weights, so if you need to break in or can’t afford the weights yet, you’ll at least be doing something. If an hour of aerobic activity is just more than you can possibly do, you can alternate the Latin and Big Band portions every other day until you are fit enough to combine them. (Or, as Joyce recommends, do the whole hour-long workout but drop out and work back in as you can if it’s too much for you.) I like the Bone Building workout for the weight portions because it’s easily accomplished and works out your whole body in a very systematic way, but check out some of Joyce’s other offerings, too.
3 Stars ROTFLMAO - I pop this in when I need a good laugh……
and that is not to say she does not work you - she does. I would not call this a “walking” exercise dvd but more of a dance workout, but don’t think her rumba, chacha and muba are the correct steps - they aren’t. I dance so when she called a muba I started my muba and took a look at Joyce and just started to laugh. Yeah it’s a corney workout, but I like it.
5 Stars Great as usual!
I am an avid fan of Joyce and enjoyed this DVD so much. If combined with her weight training DVDs, this one can be even more effective and fun.
5 Stars Works the leg muscles with very small movements!
I first learned about Joyce Vedral 5 years ago (age 57) after my open lung biopsy. Having narrowly escaped death from low level formaldehyde exposure, I was told I would need to be a LEAN MUSCLE MACHINE if I desired any quality of life! However, no one (not even rehab) could tell me how to accomplish this. I discovered DYNAMIC TENSION by JV in a bookstore and then located her website. At that time, I was unable to do even 1 week of weight-training (even with NO weights) without having to recuperate for hours in bed! Yet, when I emailed Joyce and asked for her assistance, she developed a workout plan that allowed me to GRADUALLY increase my capacity to restore atrophied LM! Now I am able to do ALL her weight training programs using 3#,5#,8# hand weights! I have also lost about 12% body fat in the past 5 years!
When I saw this new DVD, I was interested but concerned. I still have lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis) with only about 60% 02 diffusion (due to the damage done by the formaldehyde). This means that any form of cardio that takes my HR above about 65% of max is out of the question. Most low impact walking dvds are focused on getting the HR as high as possible! This means I cannot utilize them. I finally could no longer resist and bought this JV dvd and do not regret it! When I did it this morning, I was amazed to discover that she had developed a low impact dance program that worked the SMALL muscles in the legs as well as the hips. Since she does not program the arms into the dance routine (encourages the dancer to move arms naturally), I was able to incorporate hula and taiji arm movements! My legs were only able to handle about 20 minutes of this dvd but I used it as a warm-up for JV “JUST ARMS” program and then followed the JUST ARMS with JV stretching program. It was a perfect combo!
If you are looking for an intense aerobic dance program focused on taking your HR to its maximum, this program is NOT what you want. However, if you would like to work the small muscles of your legs and hips while taking your HR into the moderate cardio range, this program is excellent. I would strongly recommend it for those who would like to ENJOY dancing for fun the way we did 50 years ago!
1 Star disappointed
very amateurish - at times she seemed to trip over herself - I liked the music and dance exercise so the idea has potential but I think they need to do a remake and dub out her mistakes.
