
At this stage of the game, I don't think I could keep running if I didn't do yoga on a regular basis. Running makes me tight and yoga unwinds my muscles and prepares me for my next run. So I was happy to check out Christine Felstead's
Yoga For Runners: The Essentials ($30), hoping to learn something new or to reinforce good habits.

Remember Hemalayaa, the woman who did
The Dance of the Kama Sutra DVD and
Bollywood Burn? Well she's back with this
Beautiful Belly ($15) workout. She begins with a 6-minute cardio warm-up that's refreshingly quick-paced to raise your heart rate up immediately.

Years ago, I used to dance around, high impact aerobic style to Madonna's first album (sing with me "I'm burning up, burning up for your love"), so I find it humorous that over 20 years later I am dancing around my living room with Madonna's trainer. Well not actually with
Tracy Anderson, but with her new
Cardio Dance Workout DVD ($30).
Anderson believes that dance cardio is the perfect aerobic workout for creating long, lean muscles and a feminine, toned physique.

On the next stop in my
Fit Momma series, I took on
Fit and Healthy Prenatal Workouts With Gabrielle Reece. Let me start by saying I am a huge
Gabby Reece fan. She's very inspiring so I was thrilled when she put out this video with trainer Mike Monroe.

If you're like me, you use fitness DVDs to get in a good cardio workout on a rainy day or when your kids are napping. A friend lent me this
Step-by-Step Tai Chi ($20) DVD recently, and I decided to give it a whirl one afternoon when I was feeling mellow. Tai Chi master Tiffany Chen begins saying that most people think of this discipline as an elderly person's exercise (just what I thought!), but that everyone can benefit from it.