What were we doing before YouTube? Watching music channels, buying non-essential gym equipment? With post-scoliosis surgeries and a bad shoulder, YouTube workouts have helped me get in shape and stay motivated. I can exercise on my own schedule, in my own comfort, and enjoy a variety of workouts – for free! Scroll down for my top favourite YouTube workouts (no equipment necessary):
Best yoga instructor: Yoga With Adriene
Maybe it’s the endless flexible yoga poses on Instagram, or celebrities like Jennifer Aniston contributing yoga to her physique: something made me want to find my inner downward facing dog. After scrolling through several channels, I came across Adriene. Undoubtedly, the most famous yogi on YouTube.
Her popularity stems from her friendly approach. She welcomes all levels of experience to her practice, offering alternatives to anyone who may struggle doing certain poses. There’s a yoga class for every type of feeling and mood: Depression, anxiety, stress, chronic pain…
Yoga With Adriene Subscribers: Currently 7.06 million
Best YouTube ballet style workout: Sofabar
If you love the elegance of ballet and want to point your toes in a workout, figure skater Sophie hosts a great channel. From videos on sculpting ballet legs, to beginner stretches and lower ab exercises.
Older videos on Sophie’s channel, reveals her adjustment into veganism, with posts on what she eats in a day. There’s also various advice videos on flexibility, bloating and performing certain figure skating moves. Overall, her channel features ballet, yoga and Pilates workouts.
Sofabar Subscribers: Currently 65,900 thousand
Best YouTube dance workouts: Tiffany Rothe Workout
If you want to dance, shake and have fun while you sculpt your physique – you need to watch Tiffany!
For over 20 years, Tiffany has worked as a professional fitness expert, featuring in Marie Claire, Women’s Health and Harper’s Bazaar. She’s additionally worked with brands like Nike and Reebok.
Tiffany has been establishing an online following for her YouTube workouts for several years, providing a solution to people who don’t like classic exercise moves. With Tiffany, you’ll be shaking your hips and twirling as she encourages you to love your body and enjoy the power of movement.
There’s plenty on her YouTube fitness channel to scroll through. You can mix and match her workouts and they all vary in time. It is mainly dance workouts which have elements of hip-hop and Latin. I’ve always noticed results with her videos, even though I don’t feel pain during the process.
Tiffany Rothe Workouts Subscribers: Currently 897,000 thousand
Best all-round fitness: Blogilates
Cassey Ho is behind one of the most successful YouTube fitness channels. She’s a certified fitness instructor and hugely popular influencer. Her brand includes several exercise DVD’s and books.
Cassey’s channel is customised for all abilities and videos include both healthy food ideas and exercises on different body parts. From waist slimming to inner thigh and booty toning. Videos are typically under 20 minutes long, so worthwhile for someone who doesn’t have much time.
Blogilates Subscribers: Currently 5.02 million.
Best booty sculpting workout: Hana Milly
If you love the whole: small waist and big butt thing, definitely give Hana Milly a try. Her channel quickly rose to popularity due to her result-driven YouTube workouts. While easy to follow, some of her exercises feel more ideal for an advanced fitness level, though she does post beginner classes.
Much of her videos focus on sculpting hips, booty and waist, sharing ideas on creating an hourglass look. As well, Hana posts videos on exercises to naturally lift busts and remove bra bulge (that awkward skin near our armpits) – something I’ve not seen many other YouTube workouts show.
Hana Milly Subscribers: Currently 258,000 thousand.
Do you have any favourite YouTube fitness channels that you follow? Do you watch any of the ones that I have mentioned?
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Post updated 22/04/2020
I have been following Blogilates since probably 2009/2010, when I was still in college. I’ve never been an active person really because I wasn’t great at sports and would dread PE class at school, but following her videos made me feel otherwise. I don’t watch her videos as much now because of being busy but I always refer back to them, and I’ve also purchased her PIIT program which I think is reasonably priced. 🙂 I like Cassey because of her energy and putting the fun back in fitness. (Some videos can make it seem like a chore or a boot camp.)
If I want to do HIIT, I really like Fitness Blender. They’re a husband/wife duo and their videos are simply edited – no thrills and there’s no music during their workouts which is great when you want to just listen to your own or have nothing at all. They have different levels/offer simplified moves.
Instagram has been a huge platform in recent years in pushing the fitness trend – I guess fit bodies really sell?? I follow Zanna Van Dijk (I actually own her one and only book Strong) and think she’s a good role model for women who lift.
I completely agree – Cassey has great energy and her workouts are quite fun.
Because I have a couple of Shaun T workouts dvd’s which are all HIIT, I tend to not use YouTube to look for others. But I will give them a try.
The fitness trend is huge on Instagram. It seems to be about lifting now and less on cardio. Thank you for reading and for your response.
Love Blogilates and Sarahs Day! I will definitely be checking out some of the other channels you mentioned! Thanks for sharing! xo
Thank you for reading! I hope you like some of the other channels that I mentioned. I am not surprised that Blogilates and Sarahs Day are so successful – they really stand out against other YouTube influencers. xx
I completely agree! They are amazing! xo
This was a great review read. I’ve subscribed to a few of them so wish me luck
Thank you! I will definitely wish you luck (no that you need it) and I hope you enjoy the channels.
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Thank you Lisa!! That means a lot and I hope you continue to like my content.
My pleasure! 🙂
Such a nice and inspirational post Laura….I m really sorry about the pains u suffered…and u look FAAB as always !
Thank you! It is just one of those things I guess. But luckily I feel better today.
It’s weird cause I’m also a skeptic of yoga. I used to practice it regularly – mostly for hip pain. I didn’t really notice a difference in mood or other health benefits, but it’s probably cause I did practice it to it’s fullest potential. So, I’d love to check out Yoga with Adriene.
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I have always known some yoga poses – like downward facing dog and warrior etc, but it just never interested me. It was actually seeing so many of Instagram followers practice and discuss yoga, which made me want to join in.
I hope you like her channel. 🙂
This is an excellent and motivating post I like home workouts occasionally for the ease and comfort and convenience… and of course the privacy. Although I will admit, I do prefer to work out in a gym. Idk, I think it’s just the physical equipment that makes me feel like I’m being more efficient. Maybe that’s just me. But home workouts do have their benefits and I love to go to YouTube and do hour long yoga sessions and sometimes 10- or 25- minute kettle bell workouts if I’m feeling really up to it. Thanks for sharing these suggestions! I have to check a few of them out!
-Helene
Oh and btw–I’m sorry to hear about your pains. I’ve got spinal problems and other issues so I definitely can sympathize with how you must feel, being in chronic or sporadic pain. I’m sorry you have to go through it, although I know how you feel when you say you don’t like people to pity you. It is a tough position to be in, I do wish you well and hope that you feel better, though. Working out helps my pains and I hope it does continue to help you as well
I was always brought up to kind of just get on with things and so I have never really discussed it properly what’s it like to live with the effects post-surgery.
I’m sorry to hear about your pain as well. I think I never got use to the rods inside my back. And sometimes it’s not even a pain issue but a feeling of uncomfortability. Exercise does help though.
Sometimes being uncomfortable is almost worse than being in straight-up pain, because pain your brain eventually numbs or pushes to the back of your mind and you can forget, but being uncomfortable makes it hard to concentrate on or do much of anything! At least for me. Eh my back problems I’ve had since I was a child, at least I know that staying active and in shape will keep most of my pain at bay. Xx
Thank you girl! I think most people prefer the gym and especially now that the whole lifting physique is in fashion. I think it’s about whatever works for you.
I hope you like the suggestions and let me know if you do find any that you choose to exercise to. x
Lifting physique is so in style, I am loving it though! Lifting weights and building strength feels amazing and makes you look amazing too. x
You look incredible girl and glad exercising is really working out for you! I’m so sorry to hear about your dislocated shoulder, I understand how it must have really hurt. Sure will get better over time <3 🙂
Thank you! It happened when I was 13 and in Dubai. I went on a surfing water ride and fell off the surfboard. Throughout the years it has dislocated since. I went to physio and it didn’t do much.
I generally just try to take it easy but sometimes I can over exercise or push too far. I am doing some strength workouts on it which I think are helping. x
Im sorry to hear that! My bro had his shoulder dislocated after skiing and really said that it hurt and was painful. Totally feel ya and glad that these workouts are gradually making it better for you <3
I’ve been looking for some new-to-me-channels to check out! Thanks for this list!
You’re welcome Jennifer. I hope you like watching some of the ones that I mentioned.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing! I have been looking for a yoga youtube channel.
Thank you! I have been really happy watching Yoga With Adrienne. Some of the yoga channels for me are too complicated or they don’t really explain well. I am very new to trying it.