Your Strong, Sexy Pregnancy Online CE Exam With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Your Strong, Sexy Pregnancy ebook
• Online continuing education exam

Help your clients feel confident and capable throughout their pregnancy with Your Strong, Sexy Pregnancy.

With the Three Plus One Total Body Fitness philosophy, Desi Bartlett, founder of the popular Mothers Into Living Fit program, combines yoga, resistance training, cardiorespiratory training, and nutrition. The emphasis on yoga improves posture, increases flexibility, and relieves low back pain and tension throughout the body. Help your clients discover techniques to nurture their mental well-being, allowing them to manage the emotional highs and lows of pregnancy and motherhood.

Your Strong, Sexy Pregnancy provides plans for each stage of pregnancy and postpartum recovery, as well as the following:

• Over 100 exercises and yoga poses with appropriate safety guidelines
• 16 ready-to-use practices for various stages of pregnancy
• Desi’s quick tips and advice, including features like Mommy Move, Information No One Tells You, Love-Your-Baby Visualization, and Fun Foods

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Identify changes that occur in a woman’s body during each trimester of pregnancy.
• Modify traditional yoga poses to make them safe for pregnancy.
• Identify practices and movements that are contraindicated during pregnancy.
• Understand the modifications for sun salutations during pregnancy.
• Identify the muscles of the inner unit and their basic functions.
• Define diastasis recti and identify rehabilitation exercises for this condition.
• Explain the concept of Three Plus One Total Body Fitness and demonstrate an understanding of each component.
• Identify and differentiate the three main body types.
• Understand basic principles of balanced nutrition.
• Explain the FITT principle and how it applies to pregnancy.
• Recognize the importance of meditation and visualization during pregnancy.
• Explain when and how to return to exercise after having a baby.
• Identify yoga and fitness movements that can be done with your baby.
• Recognize postnatal exercises that help to recover core strength.
• Explain safety and mechanics for lifting babies and exercising with babies.
• Explain the changes that occur in a woman’s body after the age of 40.

Audience

Certified fitness and yoga instructors, personal trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches working with clients who are looking to become pregnant, are pregnant, or recently gave birth.

Part I. Plan for a Strong Pregnancy

Chapter 1. Strong Is the New Skinny
Chapter 2. Three Plus One Total Body Fitness
Chapter 3. Mama Knows Best

Part II. Prepare for Birth and Beyond

Chapter 4. First Trimester: Increase Endurance
Chapter 5. Second Trimester: Build Strength
Chapter 6. Third Trimester: Prepare to Push
Chapter 7. Happy Birth Day!

Part III. Practices for Recovery and Results

Chapter 8. New Mama Recovery Workout
Chapter 9. Mommy and Me
Chapter 10. Belly Blaster Series 
Chapter 11. Self-Care for Moms
Chapter 12. Insights for Moms Over 40

Desi Bartlett MS, CPT E-RYT, has been teaching health and wellness for over 20 years. She is a dynamic motivator and widely sought after international presenter and spokesperson. Her teaching approach taps into one’s inner joy and makes movement an outer expression of that state.

Originally from Chicago, Bartlett earned a degree in kinesiology, with a minor in dance, and a master’s degree in corporate fitness. She holds advanced certifications in yoga, personal training, pre- and postnatal fitness, and group fitness. She is a continuing education provider through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the National Council for Certified Personal Trainers. She has worked with the U.S. Navy and with several large companies, including Manduka, Gaiam, Equinox, and Mattel.

Bartlett has worked with several celebrity moms in Los Angeles, including Alicia Silverstone and Kate Hudson. Her inspiring and unique classes have been featured on networks such as ABC, NBC, FOX, Univision, Hallmark, and Lifetime. She is passionate about communicating her message of the joy of movement with people all over the world, and her DVDs are distributed in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. She currently stars in eight yoga, fitness, and dance DVDs, including Better Belly Yoga, Latin Groove, and Total Body Tone. She has a diverse background in many areas of fitness and yoga and has worked as a product director for Gaiam and as the group fitness manager for Equinox Santa Monica, and she created the first round yoga mat for Lululemon Athletica. She is currently the head of yoga programming for Manduka.