Is your muffin top starting to make you very conscious of your body every time you look at the mirror? Maybe you need a change, but don’t know the best way to go about it. Whether you are a mom, a workaholic, or a one-time athlete, everyone is willing to give you health advice. With the advent of the internet and the health industry boom, your weight loss worries should be easily be taken care of. But, not every fitness blog is offering safe advice. So, whom should you believe? We’ve done a comprehensive survey and compiled a list of the best fitness blogs that you can follow as you start on your journey to shed some pounds.

1. Comeback Momma

Jenn Mitchell introduces herself as a ‘mom, wife, social media junky, wanna-be-fashionista’ among other things on her blog Comeback Momma. Having bounced back from post-partum depression twice, Jenn managed to lose 50 pounds from her pregnancy weight and indulge in healthy living. She also states that post an injury in 2011, she succumbed to depression again and gained 20 more pounds. However, with the help of her doctor and therapist, she claims that that is all history. She has regained her lost confidence and has made it her life’s mission to to inspire other women to strive constantly to be the best individuals they can. Jenn’s blog is on fitness and health, food, fashion, and family.

2. Nerd Fitness

Steve Kamb is clearly a big fan of the Transformers as he uses their mantra ‘small changes can eventually add up to huge results ‘ to inspire millions of other people via his blog Nerd Fitness. He provides fitness solutions for every average guy or girl who wants to live a healthier life. Steve’s goal, he writes on his personal fitness blog, is to inspire people around him to take the initiative to make positive changes in their lives every day. Hence the name ‘Level up your life, every single day’ for the book he wrote on fitness. His modus operandi is to educate people to workout properly, cook better meals, and improve their general well-being.

3. Eat, Lift & Be Happy

Neghar Fonooni has sixteen years of experience in the fitness industry and was a well-known fitness & lifestyle coach for women before starting her blog Eat, Lift & Be Happy. She has made it her mission to empower women through strength so that they recognize their worth and power with the help of physical movement, and get in touch with their inner self. Hers is one of the best fitness blogs for women. It nudges women to prioritize self-care and live their lives on their own terms, and in complete bliss.

4. Lift Like A Girl

Nia Shanks, the owner of Lift Like A Girl, wants women to develop strong bodies in a healthy manner. Having graduated with high honors in Exercise Physiology, Nia has made it big for herself in the health industry. She is fit, healthy, and powerful, and she is a woman. Which is also the message she wants to convey to her readers. So, all the women out there, listen up, because lifting or throwing like a girl no longer implies that you are manly. Oh no! Quite the opposite if you’ve met Nia Shanks!

5. Born Fitness

Adam Bornstein quit his job at one of the largest health and fitness brands to bring the real deal to the masses. Born Fitness, he writes, was built from the frustration that most blogs on fitness available on the internet were doing more harm than good. The flux on contradictory information can and has confused people on how they should go about taking care of their health. Adam confesses to having tried everything – HIIT, muscle building, cutting fatty acids, then cutting carbs, and the list goes on. Through a period of trials and errors, Adam, now has taken to simplifying fitness for other people so that they can amplify the gains without making mistakes.

6. The Lean Green Bean

A registered dietitian from Ohio, Lindsay uses her blog The Lean Green Bean to share her passion for simple, nutritious, and healthy recipes. She also includes workout routines, nutritional information, and tips for other new moms in her health and fitness blog. While most of us assume that healthy living can be expensive what with organic foods and everything, Lindsay quells such notions. Choosing to live healthy is not only inexpensive, but also simple and she shows this to her readers by giving them a glimpse into her daily life. It is all about balance and keeping it real!

7. Badass Fitness

Shannon has been blogging and building Badass Fitness since November 2010. Having conquered her insecurities from an ‘unstable childhood’, Shannon claims to have found her love for healthy living. She writes in her fitness workout blog that even though she comes from a family of athletes and track runners, it was after completing her studies that she discovered her happiness in health and fitness. She started teaching cycling and has gone on to receive many more certificates in boot camp, TRX, and group cycling. Shannon calls herself the ‘Badass Drill Sergeant’, and coaches fitness enthusiasts of every level.

8. Dai Manuel

It is the story of an obese teen’s will power to transform into a healthier version of himself that lead to the creation of the fitness blog Dai Manuel. The author, Dai Manuel, confesses that as a 14 year old teen, he weighed nearly 200 pounds. He wasn’t spared the ridicule and insecurity that the weight caused. But, he picked himself up and turned his life around. He became a fitness expert, an entrepreneur motivating young people to make changes in their lives. And this is what he wants to do for every obese kid there is via his fitness tips blog – to bring a stop to the horror of surviving school. More importantly, he wants to introduce people to a healthier lifestyle because more than the body image, there are serious health issues that come along with obesity that should be addressed.

9. Breaking Muscle

A health and fitness website, Breaking Muscle includes a team of fitness experts who have joined forces to deliver to the common man, and help him in meeting fitness goals. They provide solutions in strength training, wellness programs, and body conditioning. They claim to base their advice on professional and personal experience and abundant research, and aim to serve all the people across the fitness spectrum – athletes, coaches, as well as beginners. They specialize in functional fitness, yoga, power lifting, as well as Olympic lifting. Breaking Muscle has been consistently winning the title of the ‘Best Fitness Blog’ for two years now.

10. Catalyst Athletics

Catalyst Athletics was founded in 2006 by Greg Everett and is now one of the world’s largest health and fitness websites that distribute educational resources on Olympic weightlifting. The website was collaborated and merged with The Performance Menu journal to build the platform that it is today. They aim to publish all kinds on content – articles, videos, and photos on Olympic weightlifting training programs as well as host an exhaustive online library on weightlifting. Catalyst Athletics also hosts seminars and provides certification courses to educate and create interest in Olympic weightlifting in the US and intentionally.

11. Dances With Fat

Ragen Chastian is one of the most inspiring people you will find with an immense online presence. The tagline to her blog Dances With Fat reads ‘Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness Are Not Size Dependent’. Like most ignoramuses, all of us feed on media propagated notions that all fat people are unhealthy. Well, Ragen opposes that belief. Her journey started trying to compete in partner dancing competitions, only to realize that she needed to first disband the notions regarding her weight. There are many others like her, who succumb to body image issues and shy away from doing everything they love. Not Ragen. Her goal is to help people realize that your size is not a hindrance in the path of fulfilling your dreams.

12. Mark’s Daily Apple

Mark Sission’s aim is to inspire 10 million people to change from being dormant to making better life choices via his blog Mark’s Daily Apple. Mark offers advice on easiest ways to be fit and alternative ways to maintain fitness. He has made fitness an object of minimal pain, suffering, and sacrifice and all about enjoyment and happiness. A former elite endurance athlete, Mark has made the health and fitness industry his life and continues to have a positive impact on people’s lives through his blog, even as he steps into the sexagenarian category.

13. Peanut Butter Fingers

As the blog name suggests, Peanut Butter Fingers is predominantly about food. Here’s the twist – the blog contains great, healthy food recipes that Julie Fagan introduces her readers to. She is a food developer, fitness trainer, full-time mom, and blogger from Charlotte, North Carolina. She has certifications in fitness training and is an experienced group exercise trainer.

14. Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman is a renowned and published author of cookbooks that have an alternative environmental implication. He is of the opinion that food can make or break not only an individual but the health of the entire planet, and he is not wrong. His body of work encompasses not only health, but also agriculture, policy, environment, and so much more across all forms of media. So if you are looking to redesign your diet, you are likely to frequent his blog. Bittman aims to transform your world with his revolutionary ways of cooking and eating through his blog by the same name.

15. The Hungry Runner Girl

Running since she was 12 years old, Janae started her personal fitness blog, The Hungry Runner Girl, about marathon running, fitness, food, and her family to share her experiences with others. She took to serious marathon running only late in 2010 and has been hooked to it ever since. She loves to bake, and her blog includes many such recipes. Her other guilty pleasures include ice cream, candy, salads, steaks, and baked potatoes. So if you want more information about marathons, equipment, training and food, don’t forget to visit Janae’s blog.

16. Peace Yoga Love

Peace Yoga Love is a yoga teachers’ collective who have come together to impart this beautiful art of healing that is yoga. They are all trained yoga instructors from the Byron Yoga Centre and aim to continue their study of the art. They commit to a student’s learning, experience, and overall health improvement. Min Carroll is the owner and manager of Peace Yoga Love and is assisted by some beautiful women who believe in yoga’s power to heal and bring peace.

17. Mile Posts

Dorothy Beal is the creator of ‘I Run This Body’, ‘Dream Big Run Long’, and the owner of Mile Posts. If you are looking to draw inspiration from a renowned marathon runner with 30 marathons under her belt, Dorothy’s the person. She is a published fitness author and an RRCA certified running coach who uses her blog to coach other people in marathon fitness and running.

18. Tony Gentilcore

Tony Gentilcore is the brains behind Cressey Sports Performance in Boston. He runs a blog under his name and has been part of the fitness industry for a little over a decade. When he is not training athletes and clients, he writes for all leading fitness magazines. His prowess lies in strength building and conditioning.

19. Ask Lauren Fleshman

If any marathon runner-fitness blogger has a track record, then it is Lauren Fleshman of Ask Lauren Fleshman! She has been on the track since she was 13 years old, and has come seventh in the World Championships that was held in 2011. Married to a pro-triathlete and mom to a toddler, Lauren plans to compete for as long as she likes running, and set personal bests and have a whole lot of fun doing it. On her fitness blog, she has put up content to inspire people to put up a good fight, a thing or two about being a fashionable athlete-mom, and her brand, Picky Bars.

20. Girls Gone Strong

Girls Gone Strong is a fitness blog devised by a conglomerate of women, and is aimed to serve all women. Nagher Fanooni is one of the original co-founders of the blog, along with Molly Galbraith. There are other women advisors on board like Dr. Brooke Kalanick Larson, Dr. Cassandra Forsythe, Jen Comas, Erin Brown, Jessie Mundell, and Ann Wendell. They cover a wide range of topics from fitness, health and wellness, nutrition, training, and lifestyle information. They aim to educate women on better eating and strength building, and provide real life solutions to health problems.

21. FitBits

Tess’s personal fitness blog FitBits comes with experiences from a reformed binge-eater, ‘beer guzzler’, and ex-smoker. So, all of you who think that your work life is too stressful and healthy living is not an option, think again. What started as a mission to lose weight and live healthy has grown to be so much more for Tess. She shares her experiences of her now active life, which is filled with marathon running, kayaking, and boxing! If we put our mind to it, nothing is impossible; and that is what Tess has achieved and is set on letting other people know via her blog.

22. Summer Tomato

Whoever told you that weight loss implies making certain sacrifices was utterly wrong. Darya Rose, PhD, is of an opinion completely contradictory to this. Having herself been a chronic dieter, she claims to have learned the hard way. Dieting has greater contributions to putting on weight than losing it. This is what led to the creation of Summer Tomato in 2009. You need to incorporate a healthy lifestyle that includes making better food choices, and Darya helps in that aspect. You must eat foods that you love, enjoy activities that are fun, and live a stress-free life. Through Summer Tomato, Darya educates her readers on how food and small activities can amount to great changes in your fitness levels.

23. Fit Bottomed Girls

Keeping a lid on the junk in the trunk – is the motto of Fit Bottomed Girls. Launched in 2008, Erin Whitehead and Jennipher Walters have been doing exceedingly good work revolutionizing the way women exercise to stay fit. Their fitness blog features weekly posts regarding improving health through physical activities and sensible eating. They also review workout DVDs, and provide fitness news, product reviews, personal experiences of certain exercises, healthy food trivia, workout music, and fitness humor through the blog. They have added a sister website ‘Fit Bottomed Mamas’ for pregnant women seeking to lead healthy and balanced lives. Another feather in their cap is the ‘Fit Bottomed Eats’ that comprises cleaner eating and nutritional information.

24. Paleo For Women

Stefani Ruper of Paleo For Women is a fierce advocate of paleo eating, but with a twist. Having practiced paleo eating herself, she found that it created different health problems while doing away with some. She confesses that though this form of diet helped her get rid her of her abdominal flab, it increased instances of cystic acne. As a person who has been under the weather for the longest time in her life owing to various health issues, she makes sure no other individual suffers the way she had to via her blog Paleo For Women. She is a pioneer in paleo eating and a prolific writer with more than a couple of books in her kitty. She vows to inspire and lead you on the correct path to healthy living.

25. Fitness On Toast

Swedish blogger, Faya took to the blogosphere to share her experiences of helping her clients achieve their fitness goals. What started in 2013 as a mere hobby with Fitness On Toast, grew on to be one of the best fitness blogs out there. She brings to the table motivational training programs and tips on how to fuel your body with unusual and nutritious recipes. To her, Fitness on Toast is an unbiased platform for an honest and organic-free way to achieving fitness as well as looking and feeling good.

26. Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin

Dr. Nina has done an exhaustive body of work in the health and fitness industry. What started as a struggle against obesity and physical inactivity propelled her to study the movement of the human body (kinesiology). She went on to get a master’s in the field and also achieved her doctorate in the same with the inclusion of the subject nutrition and rehabilitation of the human body. She offers specialization in health, fitness, and nutrition solutions via her blog Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin, as well as through her digital media and publishing firm, Complete Health Solutions.

27. The Kitchn

The Kitchn is a food magazine of sorts founded by Ryan Maxwell and Sarah Kate Gillingham, who are also the founders of the corollary website Apartment Therapy. The Kitchn is a blog devoted to educating the readers to be smart cooks at home. The idea is to nourish ourselves, our lives, and our households through the medium of quality food.

28. Nom Nom Paleo

Michelle Tam obsesses about food, and in a good way. The New York Times calls her ‘The Martha Stewart of Paleo’! Michelle discovered her love for food at an early age as she followed her mum around in the kitchen. As the years progressed, she majored in Food & Nutrition and adopted the concept of living on bagels and crackers. It was only later on that she realized that food quality was more important than simply slashing away the fats. She then embarked on a journey to transition to a paleo diet that she claims to have worked for her husband. Surely enough, with her nutrition degree and some tweaking around, she improvised a paleo diet suitable for herself and plunged headlong. Through her blog, Nom Nom Paleo, she shares with the world all her culinary adventures with Paleo eating.

29. Minimalist Baker

On your journey to fitness, diet forms an integral part. What you eat influences your energy levels as well as your mental state. A nutritionist’s favorite advice is to include more greens in your diet to satiate your hunger as well as your soul, and a vegan diet does just that. Dana and John of Minimalist Baker came up with their blog to share their diet routines in the hope that someone else could benefit from it. Also, Dana is lactose intolerant, and the recipes she develops are heavily influenced by this factor. Every recipe on the blog requires not more than ten ingredients and can be put together in about 30 minutes. Their goal it to make ridiculously delicious food that is incredibly healthy and quick to make.

30. Roman Fitness Systems

Roman Fitness Systems is the brainchild of personal trainer John Romaniello. He started his company by the same name in early 2003 and started blogging much later. Then, what started as a blog grew more than his fitness company and he had to close its doors to focus on everything he had built online. John coaches everyone, from athletes and actors to regular people, and uses his blog and his published books to do that. He can help you lose those extra ounces as well as gain muscle – the choice is yours.

31. YogaDork

If you are into fitness and yoga, then the fitness site YogaDork can be a great space for meaningful interactions. They have all the news regarding yoga, provide commentary, as well as provide a platform for discussions and debate regarding yoga. All yogis and want-to-be-yogis unite on YogaDork!

32. Pfit Blog

The Pfiester couple own the Pfit blog. Steve and Bonnie, also referred to as the ‘Dynamic Duo’ are certified personal trainers who are also established fitness experts. While Steve is involved with the broadcasting medium, Bonnie is a published author with many national fitness magazines under her belt. Together, they help transform bodies, as well as educate and support their clients through their journey. They started their fitness blog in the hope of helping people outside Florida get in shape.

33. Dani Stevens

Forty year old, mother of four, Dani Stevens is taking on the fitness world from far down south, Australia. She managed to lose 90 kilos of her combined weight over four pregnancies and now lives a healthy life that focuses on fitness and clean eating. With kids around the house, nutrition becomes a thing of worry since children can be real picky eaters. However, Stevens manages to strike a balance and lets her readers in on her secrets via her blog Dani Stevens. It is a record of her personal lifestyle journey and has the potential to inspire many more like her.

34. Fitness In The City

Fitness In The City is one of the best fitness websites there is. It is a collective from Denver that aims to motivate people to become fit and energetic. It calls on people to join their group workout sessions and have made it their life’s mission to propagate fitness as a lifestyle choice. With a cadre of experienced and trained professions on deck, their fitness programs include strength training and cardio, plyometrics, as well as calisthenics.

35. 12 Minute Athlete

So you have been working out and shedding those extra pounds, but your weight loss has plateaued. You need to mix it up, and Krista from 12 Minute Athlete can help you with that. She introduces her readers to High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) that includes short busts of intensive exercises followed by longer spells of relaxation. Krista guides her readers towards using their body as the driving force to lose weight and educates them on nutrition.

36. Loving Fit

As an ex-professional figure-skater, Tatianna has a great understanding about what fitness is and should be. Along with her husband, flying trapeze artist Miguel, she started her blog Loving Fit. People, they believe, should not only bust their flabs in the gym, but also develop a healthy mind. This is the belief that led to the creation of Loving Fit. To move your body as a unit, understand proper shape, do exercises that are suitable for your body, and attain spiritual peace is what Tatianna teaches.

37. Flavilicious Fitness

Flavia Del Monte’s growing annoyance with low-carb diets and their failures prompted her to take a closer look at nutrition. This interest made her take nutrition and health more seriously, as opposed to pumping muscles in the gym. Slowly, she learned more about making better food choices, HIIT, the proper way to lift weights, and all the little details of working out in a gym for optimum results. Surely enough, it worked for her and she took it upon herself to educate other women on the same. Thus, came into existence Flavilicious Fitness!

38. Gym Talk

Gym Talk is like every other men’s fitness blog, but with a great sense of humor. It is better than those fitness websites and blogs that simply give you the meat and leave the sauce out. Gym Talk includes an advisory board of regular people and professionals, all of whom are athletic, and love heading to the gym and working up a sweat. They like to keep things simple and real.

39. Gym Junkies

Gym Junkies is one of the fastest growing blog sources in America that includes anything and everything that has to do with fitness. The plethora of information on their fitness blog is aimed to help people achieve optimal strength and high performance. They also own their own line of workout supplements. They publish reviews for fitness workouts featured on other blogs, workout supplement reviews, fitness articles, and so much more.

40. Brandon Carter

Best selling author and celebrity fitness trainer Brandon Carter can also be found in this blosphere. His blog about fitness reaches out to the masses who want to turn their lives around. He provides information on training programs, nutrition, and general health. Whether you want to lose weight or gain some, educate yourself about fitness, or up you workout difficulty level, Carter can be your personal trainer. He will push you until you achieve your goal and motivate you to pick up bigger challenges every day.

All health and fitness blogs that are available in the blogosphere are aimed to help you in your journey to achieve freedom from weight and health issues. However, it ultimately is up to you to make a choice and stick to it. There will be difficult times when you might want to give up, but remember, you can always take inspiration from these amazing people. So, get up and get moving, break a sweat, and bid farewell to that muffin top!

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