Active Mom: Your Guide to Feeling Strong and Confident in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond
By Ashley Reid
Active Mom, the only book focused exclusively on exercise through pregnancy and motherhood, helps you find your starting point, teaches safe core and strength training exercises for pregnancy and postpartum, and shows you how to adapt workouts as your body and life change.
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Active Mom (Bloomsbury, 2026) is available in hardcover
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Learn to personalize any workout, from studio workouts, fitness apps, AI-generated plans, or a personal trainer's program.
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CFF is the framework I created to help you know what to do, why you’re doing it, and when to adjust it. It’s based on research and years of coaching moms.
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Active Mom puts real pregnancy and postpartum needs at the center, instead of adjusting a general fitness plan for moms.
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Learn how to train with common postpartum conditions like diastasis recti, incontinence, and back pain. This guidance is approved by pelvic floor physical therapists.
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The self-assessment considers your symptoms, fitness background, energy, time, stage, birth experience, and support, so you can build a plan around your real life.
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Clear charts on core training and strength modifications help you apply the principles with confidence.
What’s Inside Active Mom
Who Is This Pregnancy and Postpartum Exercise Book For? Active Mom is for any mom who wants to stay active as her body and life change.
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All trimesters of pregnancy
Pregnant and want to feel strong and confident?
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Newly postpartum
Recently had a baby and aren’t sure when or where to start?
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Years postpartum
Juggling family and fitness?
What Experts Are Saying About Active Mom
“This book will provide a foundation and framework to know what can and should be done to stay active during your pregnancy and after your baby is born. This book will help you start your path to being happier and healthier during and after your pregnancy to be an Active Mom!”
— Dr. Linda May, associate professor in the Kinesiology Department at East Carolina University
“Through evidence-based guidance and tangible goals, Ashley empowers moms to take care of their physical wellbeing in a very conscious way. I will be recommending Active Mom to all of my patients!“
— Jessica Vernon, MD, OB/GYN
“An insightful and well-written example of what prenatal and postpartum exercise should truly look like—thoughtful and intentional. A must-read for all moms and moms-to-be!”
— Dr. Samantha Fazio Semar, PT, DPT, PHC
