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Product Description
A simple, easy-to-follow guide for staying fit while pregnant and shedding the post-baby pounds after!
Being a mom is the toughest job in the world. It's difficult to take time for yourself. Now, in
How to Exercise When You're Expecting, even the busiest moms can learn how to stay strong and fit during their pregnancy and lose the post-baby weight after. Lindsay Brin, a women's fitness expert and creator of #1 bestselling Moms Into Fitness DVD series, shares insider tips to:
-Understanding and tackling food cravings
-Exercises that are safe to perform during different stages of pregnancy
-Preparing for labor through relaxation and yoga techniques
-How your body and metabolism changes after childbirth
-Keeping fitness and nutrition a priority when time is scarce
Battle-tested through Lindsay's own pregnancies,
How to Exercise When You're Expecting offers a before, during, and after guide that will get moms back in pre-baby shape-or better.
About the Author
Lindsay Brin, C.P.T. & B.S.E. Exercise Science, is a pre/post-natal fitness expert, international author, the top Fitness Expert for Mommy Coach, and DVD fitness professional. For nearly fifteen years, she's been helping women achieve healthier bodies and minds. She has starred, choreographed and designed 43 fitness DVDs for weight loss. She created Moms Into Fitness®, Inc. to help moms stay motivated and find a flat stomach again!
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INTRODUCTION
We often refer to a child’s birth as a blessed event. There’s a reason for that. For many women, having a child is the ultimate experience of their adult life. Sure, there’s no more important duty your body will be asked to perform than to bear a child. But you are asked to put on anywhere from fifteen to thirty-five pounds within nine months. This would be hard for anyone to lose. But the good news is a majority of that weight will go when the baby is born. The rest is up to you and how you take care of yourself now. . . meaning don’t gain too much too fast.Whether you think of it as expressing her reproductive destiny, getting knocked up, an “oops,” or as her fulfilling her maternal instinct to nurture and protect, having a baby is one of the defining moments of a woman’s life. From the moment she hears the news from a doctor or sees the two red lines on a home pregnancy kit, her life is going to be changed forever. Or if you’re like me you cried when your husband told you that you were pregnant after the nurse called with HCG numbers, and were shocked to be carrying twins. Some women are scared out of their minds and optimistic but pessimistic about how it’s all going to turn out. I hope for you and your family it’s a time of joy and optimism, but if it’s not—you are not alone in being scared. I was Nervous Nelly, even knowing all I know about pregnancy.Not only is your life going to change, but your body is going to undergo a series of changes—some wonderful, some wacky, some initially frightening—that could potentially leave you looking like a different person than you were before your pregnancy.I think you either have it easy or you have it hard. You enjoy it or you don’t. But either way the goal is to get to forty weeks. If you’re like me the “glow” is green to gills, “tired” is insomnia instead, and “loving every minute of it” is “I am ready to jump out of my skin.”Let’s face it, if you picked up this book, you did so because, as thrilled as you are about the life-changing events surrounding the birth of your child(ren), the one thing you want to see undone or to be able to go back to is your best pre-pregnancy body—or even better. Yes, it can be done, and you can look better than you did in high school! You want to be that “hot mom”! You know, the one everyone comments on: “You can’t be serious! You just had a baby six months ago?” “Look at you! I thought you were the baby’s nanny, not her mother!” Vain? Maybe, but I know I wanted