Hey guys,
In today’s blog post, I go over 14 inspiring fitness blogs for women to follow. These blogs cover topics like lifestyle, strength training, wellness, coaching, food, motherhood, athleisure, mental health and body positivity just to name a few!
In no particular order, here are the 14 blogs, their descriptions, social media handles and why you should follow them!
1) Girls Gone Strong
About Girls Gone Strong:
Girls Gone Strong was founded in 2011 by 7 women that came together to form a fitness community aimed at helping other women get strong. Their aim is to improve the health and fitness industry for women.
Their values include education, inclusion, autonomy and making a difference in women’s lives.
Why you should follow them:
This blog helps women develop mental and emotional strength as well as powerful bodies. They offer women-specific health and fitness coaching and certifications.
Girls Gone Strong has an Academy to help women coach issues like body image, menopause, disordered eating and PCOS among other topics.
They also offer courses targeting regular women who want to get fit. These courses include nutrition, combatting negative body image, unlearning comparing ourselves to other women and how to challenge diet culture.
Their resources include articles on how to perform certain exercises like the pistol squat or single leg deadlift.
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2) Nerd Fitness
About Nerd Fitness:
Nerd Fitness’ aim is to give us trust-worthy information that will help us create long-term and sustainable fitness results.
They have 14 years of experience helping thousands of ‘regular people’ become fit. They want to bring light to the lies and BS perpetuated by the fitness industry.
They have a non-dogmatic approach towards getting people on the right path with their fitness.
Why you should follow them:
If you value honesty and the truth, this is the best website to get your information from! It’s detail-oriented, smart and packed with factually correct information.
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3) Mind Body Green
About Mind Body Green:
Mind Body Green is an independent brand dedicated to wellness. Their mission is to “revitalize the way people eat, move, and live.” They offer free wellness content, video classes, and live events.
They were founded in 2009 with the aim of connecting soul and science as well as integrating mental, physical, spiritual, environmental and emotional aspects of wellbeing.
Why you should follow them:
Follow for expert advice on wellness and fitness subjects including sources like Deepak Chopra and Esther Perel.
Topics to learn more about include mindfulness, beauty, movement, health, food, parenting, home, relationships and lifestyle.
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4) Fit Bottomed Girls
About Fit Bottomed Girls:
Fit Bottomed Girls was started by two friends who were pioneers in the body positivity movement. The blog cover topics like food, motherhood, zen, podcast, coaching and fitness.
This blog also includes a book, podcast, online course as well as mother and food sections. It has now expanded into speaking engagements, retreats and brand consulting.
Founders Jenn and Kristen’s mission is to continue to let women and men know that you cannot hate yourself into getting healthy.
Why you should follow them:
The founders of the blog Jenn and Kristen were named as one of The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness by Greatist in 2016 and 2017. They were also named the Best Health Living Bloggers for three consecutive years by Healthline.
They worked alongside brands like Pure Protein and Marshall’s to create campaigns that align with their values. Finally, they embrace all shapes and sizes.
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5) Blogilates
About Blogilates:
Blogilates is one of the most famous health and fitness brands that was founded By Cassey Ho. What started out as a blog and YouTube channel is now a $13 million generating online business.
Cassey is a celebrity social media fitness influencer, creator of blogilates, a best-selling author and designer/CEO of athleisure brand Popflex.
She enjoys doing a variety of exercises including strength training and dance-styled workouts with pilates being her favourite form of exercise.
Why you should follow her:
Blogilates includes challenges, workouts, articles on body image and athleisure, delicious food recipes, strength training exercises and blogicomics (relatable and cute comics).
She also sells her gorgeous athleisure line on her website!
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6) Kayla Itsines
About Kayla Itsines:
Kayla Itsines is an Australian personal trainer, author and entrepreneur. She is the author of the famous fitness ebooks titled Bikini Body Guides and a workout app called Sweat with Kayla.
In 2016, the Sweat with Kayla app generated more revenue than any other fitness app. Itsines has been helping women around the world feel confident and strong since 2008.
Why you should follow her:
Kayla’s blog covers topics like fitness, food, healthcare, education, exercises, lifestyle and recipes.
Sweat with Kayla also acts as a community that both supports and encourages women on their fitness journeys.
Her content is women-friendly and empowering.
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7) The Skinny Confidential
About The Skinny Confidential:
The Skinny Confidential is a blog for the girl who wants to be the best version of herself. It covers topics like beauty, wellness, healthy lifestyle and recipes,
They also have health and fitness products, books and a podcast.
Why you should follow them:
The advice on the blog is real and unfiltered. It is relatable with life advice and articles on beauty, self love and self care.
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8) Bony to Bombshell
About Bony to Bombshell:
Bony to Bombshell is a great resource for women looking to get strong and curvy. It is full of information about strength training, physique transformations and how to gain muscle.
Why you should follow them:
Bony my to Bombshell is an educational, informative, no bs guide to strength training for women.
It is empowering towards women lifting heavy and developing feminine and strong bodies.
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9) Tony Gentilcore
About Tony Gentilcore:
Tony Gentilcore is one of the co-founders of Cressey Sports Performance. He is also a blogger, writer, coach and presenter.
Why you should follow him:
Gentilcore’s content is smart, informational and fact-checked by experts. The topics covered in this blog are mindset and strength training knowledge.
They have an app called Strong body,strong mind.
His content encourages us to think critically about the fitness industry.
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10) Love Sweat Fitness
About Love Sweat Fitness:
Love Sweat Fitness cover topics like lifestyle, skincare, mindset, how to boost your energy/mood, diet, weight loss, fitness and recipes. They also have a fitness app called Move.
You can also shop on their health website by need, whether that is to feel happy, to lose weight, improve your fitness or simply detox.
Why you should follow them:
Follow Love Sweat Fitness for their great recipes and inspiring content aimed at empowering women to get strong and healthy.
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11) Bret Contreras’ Blog
About Bret Contreras:
Bret Contreras is known as a glutes expert with his niche being building amazing/curvy glutes for 13 years.
He has written many articles on how women can build their best physiques while encouraging them to get strong and hit personal bests.
Why you should follow him:
Follow him for scientifically proven, expert and factual advice on how to develop your glutes. He shares the best and newest exercises for glutes and how to maintain a feminine, strong and curvy physique.
Contreras has a PHD in sports science, is an author, strength and conditioning coach with over a decade of experience.
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12) Greatist
About Greatist:
Greatist covers topics such as health, fitness, mental health, sexual health, relationships, race, and gender. It’s website consists of expert-based advice written through a real life-lens so that it’s applicable for readers.
Why you should follow them:
Their content is evidence-based, science-backed, and expert-approved. Furthermore it’s made on topics that help us live our best lives.
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13) Fitness on Toast
About Fitness on Toast:
Fitness on Toast is a blog about how to maintain health and fitness in London. The author is a Swedish fitness blogger, her blog won both Cosmopolitan magazine and UK blog awards for ‘best lifestyle blog’.
Why you should follow them:
Fitness on Toast is full of delicious healthy recipes, health and beauty advice and lifestyle tips.
I recommend this blog to my readers who value having an exciting and healthy lifestyle.
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14) Popsugar Fitness Blog
About Popsugar Fitness:
Popsugar’s blog covers topics like entertainment, wellness, beauty (with articles on make up tips and reviews, skincare, hair, nails, and fashion), and new trends to follow.
Why you should follow them:
Popsugar shares great workouts (including full body, body part split, fat loss, cardio, muscle gain, pilates, stretch and yoga) as well as healthy recipes.
If you’re into more beauty, lifestyle and celebrity type news and information, this blog is definitely for you!
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Bonus:
Check out Moxie By Lindsey to help get you started on your fitness goals, for access to health and fitness resources and a lovely community to be a part of!
I hope that you guys enjoyed this blog post on 14 inspiring fitness blogs for women to follow, please let me know what you thought about it in the comments section below!
Sources:
https://bloggerspassion.com/best-fitness-blogs/#1-nerd-fitness
Comments (10)
I’m not familiar with most of these but I really love and am grateful for popsugar. When I first started my weight loss/getting fit journey and I didn’t want to go to the gym, they were where I began. I’ll check out the others, thank you for the recommendation.
Popsugar is a great health/fitness resource indeed! I’m glad that it helped you on your fitness journey ❤️
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Absolutely loved this roundup! It’s so refreshing to see a mix of strength, body positivity, wellness, and real-life fitness advice all in one place. I already follow a few of these, but can’t wait to explore the rest. Also, I’ve found some really helpful and simple women’s health tips on the SheMed website definitely worth checking out alongside thes.
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it ❤️