If you want a fit and healthy pregnancy, a quick and easy labour, and a speedy return to your pre-pregnancy figure, this is the book for you! Midwives recommend them, fitness professionals love them. If your pregnant you'll buy one. If you've had a baby you'll own one. Of course we are talking about Exercise/Birthballs, but do you really know what to do with yours? In The Essential Exercise and Birthball Handbook for Pregnancy and Beyond; specialist fitness professionals Mark Hibbitts and Martin Beckley show you how to get the absolute best from your ball. Including: 1) Top tips on using a birth-ball during pregnancy. 2) Pregnancy exercise safety quidelines and contra-indications. 3) Safe and fun ball exercises for a fit and healthy pregnancy. 4) Postnatal ball exercises you can do with baby! 5) Advanced ball routines for continued fitness and toning. 6) 8 Super secrets for getting your pre-pregnancy figure back...FAST. Also included in your book, a 20 minute educational DVD A Simple Guide to Pelvic Floor and Core Exercises as used within the NHS
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Mark Hibbitts: Mark is well known in the fitness industry as the founder of Newborn Fitness. A qualified fitness coach and a full member of The Guild of Pregnancy and Postnatal Exercise Teachers. Mark is resident fitness expert for lifestylexperts.com and supernanny.co.uk. He also writes regularly for Women's Fitness Magazines. Martin Beckley: Martin is a successful entrepreneur, with a string of health fitness and lifestyle businesses. Martin is also a personal trainer and founder of The Miracle Box . The UK's best selling birthing/exercise ball for mums and mums to be...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By snokatie
I nearly didn't buy this book after reading the other negative reviews but it was one of the few available without having to buy a birthing ball as well. I already had a ball so I decided to give it a go as it wasn't too expensive. I'm glad I did as it's very useful. Another review said the explanations of the exercises weren't clear enough but I think they are very clear ... concise but clear. After all it's not rocket science! Admittedly I already use a fit ball at the gym so I know most of the basic exercises but this book is very useful to find out what is safe and effective during pregnancy, and afterwards. I would recommend this book to anyone who already has a fit/birthing ball and just wants some instruction on how to use it during pregnancy, birth and post-natally. I don't usually write reviews but I felt that this deserved one as it had poor reviews previously, which were rather unfair. I hope it helps someone else!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By H. Johns
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If you already have the Miracle Box, and are looking for some handy advice on how to keep fit, do not buy this book. The descriptions of exercises in this book do not add anything at all to those already on the leaflets in the box. The book is otherwise padded out by endorsements from mums, pretty common sense nutritional information and some stuff on pelvic floor exercises, likewise not adding anything to the DVD in the miracle box. Personally I am also finding the birthball exercises pretty useless for keeping fit and not very well explained. My advice? Save your money and look for some pregnancy exercise classes where you live.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By debaixa
It says 'Recommended by Midwives, Doulas, & Fitness Professionals' - but I'm wondering whether that is referring to the book and DVD, or the birth ball itself! I have to say I'm disappointed with the book and DVD. The intentions, I'm sure, are good, however, for someone who has never used a fitness/birthball before I found the brief instructions and photos not explicit enough to make me feel confident that I was doing it right and wouldn't possibly be doing something wrong.
For example, I would have preferred more guidance as to where to place your hands on the ball, tips on what you should and shouldn't be feeling as regards your position, plus some instruction on when to breathe in and out whilst doing the exercise. Perhaps it is assumed that users will have had sufficient prior guidance from a gym trainer on all these aspects?
I had hoped that the DVD would give visual examples of the exercises in the book (much easier to work with than trying to balance and check the page to see what you have to do next) - but it was more of a throw-in on pelvic floor and post-natal exercises - interesting, but didn't help me learn how to work with the ball.
The order of the chapters follows chronologically, but I would prefer to have read chapter 6 'Labour, Birth and your ball' which mainly features endorsements from midwives and mums right at the start of the book before it gets all technical.
Finally, I wouldn't say that most of the exercises are 'fun' unless you really like gym-style workouts which work muscles in a robotic way - bicep curls, etc. Furthermore, there is repetition of the same exercises in different parts of the book pre- post- and advanced. Wouldn't it make more sense to explain it well once with further tips on how to do it post-pregnancy, etc?
For example, I would have preferred more guidance as to where to place your hands on the ball, tips on what you should and shouldn't be feeling as regards your position, plus some instruction on when to breathe in and out whilst doing the exercise. Perhaps it is assumed that users will have had sufficient prior guidance from a gym trainer on all these aspects?
I had hoped that the DVD would give visual examples of the exercises in the book (much easier to work with than trying to balance and check the page to see what you have to do next) - but it was more of a throw-in on pelvic floor and post-natal exercises - interesting, but didn't help me learn how to work with the ball.
The order of the chapters follows chronologically, but I would prefer to have read chapter 6 'Labour, Birth and your ball' which mainly features endorsements from midwives and mums right at the start of the book before it gets all technical.
Finally, I wouldn't say that most of the exercises are 'fun' unless you really like gym-style workouts which work muscles in a robotic way - bicep curls, etc. Furthermore, there is repetition of the same exercises in different parts of the book pre- post- and advanced. Wouldn't it make more sense to explain it well once with further tips on how to do it post-pregnancy, etc?
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