Congrats, Allison! I know you’re going to love this DVD.

I caught an article recently that talked about staying in shape during pregnancy, and one of the points was to not rely on your heart to see if you’ve overdone it. Great point. When a regular person exercises, it’s easy to see when we’re at our limit because our heart rate goes up and breathing becomes labored. But working out when you are pregnant is a whole different thing. So be careful and only do what feels good to your body. This DVD should be a great start.

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Prenatal Dance Fitness

First – you need to be sure that you can exercise. Most women are very healthy throughout their pregnancies and have no problems at all with keeping active. However, some women do have problems and certain activities are not recommended for fear of aggravating problems.

So, once you’ve gotten the go-ahead, what type of exercises should you do? If you don’t already have an exercise plan, there are several work outs that have been developed for pregnancy.

Exercise TV has several videos that can help you stretch and keep your muscles in shape throughout pregnancy and after. Click on the TV screen to see a choice of exercises:

Now, to keep with the theme, Fitness expert Tracey Mallett, who you can see in the videos available at Exercise TV, has given me 2 DVDs to give away. One is called Pregnancy System, 3 in 1, and the other is called Total Body Calorie Blast, a 6-minute Quick Blast Method. Tracey also a contributor to Fitness Magazine, Shape, HMC magazine.com, Ocean Magazine, Cooking Light, Diet and Fitness, ePregnancy, Quick and Simple, and is the fitness expert for “The Hot Mom’s Hand Book.”

According to Amazon.com, those who bought the pregnancy DVD were quite pleased with it and they also write: Fit Pregnancy June 2006: Voted one of the best pre-natal DVDs, Tracey’s playful, personal teaching style helps you feel comfortable and enjoy the workout. If you would like to buy this DVD, there’s a link at the bottom of this post that brings you straight to Amazon.com, where you can make your purchase.

The second DVD, not meant for pregnancy, Total Body Calorie Blast also has very good reviews on Amazon.

Now, the fun part: the give-away!

To be eligible to win these 2 DVDs together, please leave a comment about how you plan on keeping fit during pregnancy or a comment about any *other* post on this blog. Let me know which post you liked (or didn’t) and why. If you leave a comment about fitness, I shall gather them all up into one post for later on, giving you (and your website, if you wish) credit.

All people who post eligible comments will be put into a randomized draw for the DVDs. The contest runs from today until 11:59 PM EST on July 1st. Please be sure you leave a legitimate email for me to reach you in case you are the winner. No-one sees your emails except me.

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Pregnancy exercise – and DVD give-away