cover image Buff Moms-To-Be: The Complete Guide to Fitness for Expectant Mothers

Buff Moms-To-Be: The Complete Guide to Fitness for Expectant Mothers

Sue Fleming. Villard Books, $15.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-8129-6945-0

In this guide for expecting mothers, Fleming (Buff Brides) presents an exercise program that should help pregnant women maintain their own health as they carry their children to term. Photographs of women in the early stages and advanced months of pregnancy accompany the instructions for stretching, weight lifting and cardiovascular exercise. Though the program Fleming outlines is really an ordinary workout for strength and flexibility, many women will appreciate the specially modified techniques and exercises, as well as the descriptions of precautionary measures, which she has developed expressly for pregnant and post-partum women.