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Active Mom

Your Guide to Feeling Strong and Confident in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond

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Active Mom

Your Guide to Feeling Strong and Confident in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond

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Description

An invaluable guide for moms who want to feel strong and stay active through all stages of pregnancy and motherhood.

Moms are told to stay active but often left to figure out how on their own. With conflicting advice and few resources designed for the realities of motherhood, exercise can feel confusing, intimidating, or overwhelming-but it doesn't have to be that way.

In Active Mom, exercise physiologist, award-winning pre/postnatal wellness practitioner, and mom Ashley Reid provides a clear, customizable path to improved strength, energy, and confidence. Whether preparing for labor, navigating postpartum healing, or trying to make time for movement in a busy day, this book offers practical tools, encouragement, and expert guidance every step of the way. Rooted in the Core, Function, and Fitness® method, Reid helps readers rebuild core strength and function, move with confidence through the physical demands of everyday life, and create flexible fitness plans that reflect their recovery, energy, and available time.

Featuring self-assessments, easy-to-follow training charts, and QR-linked videos, Active Mom offers the support moms need to reach their personal fitness goals. Empowering, adaptable, and grounded by science, this is the resource every mom deserves.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Foreword
Introduction

PART I
Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Be an Active Mom?
Chapter 2: An Approach to Exercise That Supports Motherhood
Chapter 3: Figuring Out What You Need

PART II
Chapter 4: Your Core from the Inside Out
Chapter 5: It's Not Just You and You Don't Have to Live with It
Chapter 6: Core Training for Moms

PART III
Chapter 7: Master These (Mom) Movements
Chapter 8: Isolated Muscle Training for Strength and Mobility
Chapter 9: When to Push, Pause, or Pivot

PART IV
Chapter 10: What About Cardio?
Chapter 11: Putting It All Together

Appendix A: My Letters to You
Appendix B: Additional Resources
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 02 Apr 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9798881808105
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw images, 23 textboxes, 4 tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Ashley Reid

Ashley Reid is a certified exercise physiologist,…

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