Only for beginners

As an intermediate exerciser, I found the routine to be too repetitive & a bit boring. Using such few steps may be useful for beginners, though, because it is not hard to learn.

This was good during the 3rd trimester

This is a relaxing workout, meaning if you are a regular exerciser, you will not break a sweat, but you will feel good when it's over. The first segment is salsa dancing, which felt ridiculous to me because I'm not very coordinated.It felt even sillier when I was huge. But the novelty of the dance steps was amusing and it went by quickly. Again, I never broke a sweat and didn't really "count it" as exercise, but I thought it helped me sleep a little better when I was having trouble with sleep during the 3rd trimester. I liked the yoga portion the best, and it felt really good to go through the poses, esp. when the baby was in awkward positions in utero. It was nice to stretch in different ways and help dislodge him from grating against my ribs. (it wasn't always successful.) The relaxation phase along with the labor and delivery exercises were also nice. Overall, it is a nice relaxing, but not challenging workout.

Good workout but really boring!

I bought 3 prenatal exercise videos and this one is definitely my least favorite. The aerobic section got my heart pumping, I enjoyed the stretching at the end, and I like how the dvd is broken into segments that can be done on their own or as a total workout. The problem is that the aerobic and yoga sections are really, really repetitive which makes it boring to do. I did this workout once and haven't touched it since. The aerobics involve various "mamba" moves which are fun to do at first, but the same moves are repeated over and over throughout the 20 minute segment. The yoga section just repeats the same sequence about 6 times on each side. With so many yoga postures that can be combined in so many ways, it is a shame they chose to bore the viewer by doing the same ones throughout the entire segment. Overall, I would not recommend this video.