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5 of the Best Fitness YouTubers You Should Subscribe to Right Now

Winter may be upon us, but that’s no excuse to neglect your fitness routine. Staying active throughout the chilliest of months can do wonders for both your mental and physical health. If you can’t quite muster the courage to battle the cold and make it down to the gym, you can still work out at home with utter ease. Setting up an exercise area in your living room and watching a few video tutorials is a simple way to stay in shape without having to leave your house. Here are some of the very best fitness YouTubers the web has to offer.

1. Yoga with Adriene

If you’re hoping to find your inner zen whilst also having a good old stretch, yoga may just be the thing. Sports meets meditation in this ultra popular activity. A rather massive 28% of Americans have tried yoga, according to a study by The Yoga Alliance. If you’ve yet to join the club, now may be the perfect time. Yoga with Adriene offers of a 30 Days of Yoga challenge which will ease you into the art one video at a time. Each session is just about half an hour long and teaches you a new area of the discipline. The idea is that at the end of the first month, you will have a good grasp on the basic techniques and will want to continue on your newfound yoga journey.

2. TheLeanMachines


For those wanting to build muscle tone while getting active, TheLeanMachines is a YouTube channel that will help you do just that while entertaining you along the way. You’ll be coached by the likes of not one but two personal trainers: John and Leon. Many of their videos show you how to make the best out of your workouts, while there are a few surprises packed in there too. Of course, exercising is but one side of your fitness regime; and what you eat can have just as big an impact on your health. Luckily, these guys have got that covered too with simple recipe tutorials for some healthy and delicious meals.

3. Kayla Itsines


If you’re looking for short, sharp bursts of exercise, Kayla Itsines is your gal. She is doubtless one of the best fitness YouTubers of the moment, with eight years of professional fitness training experience under her belt. Plus, she knows a thing or two about how to push your body to its very limits. You’ve been warned. Most of her YouTube tutorials are no more than a minute long. She uses that sparse amount of time to simply demonstrate a workout challenge you can try in your very own home. While her video updates are few and far between, she also has a cell phone app so that you can work out with her anytime, anywhere.

4. Lauren Hefez


Aiming to help the YouTube viewing public to live a “healthy and happy lifestyle,” Lauren Hefez offers a range of short (about 10-minute long) exercise videos. Many of her workouts focus on the abs, hips, butt, and thigh areas. So, if you’re hoping to shape and tone up, dedicating a little time to her workout routines is a surefire way to kickstart your quest. She also slips a little cardio in there now and then, which is essential in any workout regime. Lauren uploads new videos every Tuesday and Thursday, which means that you’ll never be at a loss when it comes to new routines and fitness trick to help you reach your goals.

5. Blogilates

The wonderfully fit Cassey Ho is the lady behind the immensely popular Blogilates YouTube channel. In her short and sweet video tutorials, she offers Pop Pilates, which will help to sculpt and tone your body while also giving you a darn good workout to boot. Her videos are truly carried by her cheerful brand of charisma along with her informal chitchat style of coaching. That combined means that you will hardly notice the routines passing you by since you’ll be entranced by this lady’s sunny, bubbly personality. What’s more, when she’s not showing you how to work out, Cassey creates uplifting opinion-based videos such as the lovely Stop Trying To Be Perfect! vlog. Now, there’s a message we can all get behind.

6 Daily Sources of Positive News

Stories about the blitz to end homelessness or how tourism is reviving coal-based economies don’t tend to make it into your daily news feed, and that’s a shame.

In the social media age, we’re constantly bombarded with news about poverty, conflict, disaster, and injustice, and that’s for a couple of different reasons. One is our innate negativity bias, which draws us to click on headlines with words like “outrage” and “scandal” while letting our eyes gloss over the stories where everyone makes it home safe.

Another is the media industry’s belief that, according to the old saying, “if it bleeds, it leads.”

This media attitude is a problem for a few reasons, not least of all because the daily barrage of negativity can severely warp your worldview. Most people don’t know that we’re living in times of rapidly decreasing global poverty, rapidly increasing public health, and, with a few media-inflated exceptions, we’re dangerously close to achieving world peace.

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But the consequences of bad news go beyond Debbie Downer syndrome: Bad news is literally bad for your health.

A popular but extreme remedy is to simply go cold turkey on current events. That’s a great strategy to free up scarce mental space, but it comes at the cost of being an informed citizen in our increasingly interdependent global village.

The good news is there’s actually plenty of good news out there.

And not only does it exist, but when you read, digest, and share it, it’s just as good for you as the bad is bad. Check out these six sources of daily positivity and add them to your content streams for a more balanced look at the world and a more peaceful and positive inner life.

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Positive News sees itself as “a magazine and a movement,” churning out meaty in-depth narratives about how “real progress and possibility” are overcoming society’s challenges.

The self-proclaimed longest-established publication for “quality reporting that inspires,” Positive News is a top tier publisher of in-depth articles that piece together the one-off feel good stories you’ll find in the other feeds on this list and pulls out the big picture and positive patterns. Topics like the positive environmental impact of bee tourism and America’s black banking revolution give you something to smile about today, but also show you how it might be leading to an even bigger smile tomorrow.

Real Life Heroes


Real Life Heroes is the YouTube channel that wants to restore your faith in humanity. Every day subscribers are submitting high quality videos of everyday heroes, from the usual suspects like police officers and life-saving pups, to unlikely heroic acts from bikers and brave little kids. While the other sites on this list curate articles that are sure to brighten your day, sometimes you’ve got to see it to believe it, and the videos on Real Life Heroes are high definition proof of the good in the world.

Good News Network 

For nonstop human interest stories with guaranteed happy endings, head to Good News Network. While some of their stories hone in on positive social trends like rising high school graduation rates, the majority are great for a quick read and a smile on your morning commute, like cops choreographing to Beyoncé or baby elephants rescuing humans from adorably nonexistent danger.

Reddit Uplifting News 

Thanks to social media, we no longer have to rely on editorial boards to decide what they think will inspire and uplift us. Reddit is the perfect platform for grassroots good news, which is why it’s no surprise that the Uplifting News subreddit enjoys over eight million subscribers.

Rather than composing their own uplifting news stories, every day Redditors are upvoting articles about little kids making sure their classmates get to eat lunch, Tasmanian devils overcoming facial cancer, and the like. Even better, you can submit your own links, and upvote the most inspiring ones you find, joining the community in ensuring that the best positive news on the Internet is getting read and shared. 

Daily Good

What started as a college student’s late-90s endeavor to inspire his friends with daily motivational quotes has grown into Daily Good, one of the biggest curators of the day’s good news on the web. Stories are conveniently curated in categories like generosity, nature, and mind and body, and their inspiring newsletter is a reliable daily, weekly, or monthly digest of what’s going right in the world.

Upworthy


Upworthy is probably the most popular provider of uplifting news and videos, and for a good reason.

Founded with the goal of using the Internet as a mind-opener rather than a conversation-ender, Upworthy produces some of the most clickable articles and videos on the glass-half-full side of the web, like “How a DIY dress helped one woman reclaim the power words had on her body” and “Having a rough week? These uplifting comics are your chicken soup.” Their illustrations and short videos have a knack for drawing your attention to today’s big issues, but doing so by shining a spotlight on where the most inspiring progress is being made in addressing them.

In need for a regular dose of good news like this? Try an RSS reader like Feedly, curate some uplifting content feeds for yourself, and start every day with a cup of coffee and a reminder that you live in a world that’s becoming a better place every day.