The 5 best fitness YouTube channels

Simon Owens
4 min readFeb 28, 2022

Everything from bodybuilding tips to nutritional science to pop-music-fueled workout videos.

There are lots of reasons you could find yourself searching for fitness videos on YouTube. Maybe you want to lose weight, and so you seek out advice on nutrition and fat-burning exercise. You could cycle through muscle building workouts and diets from experienced bodybuilders. Or maybe you’re just looking to be entertained by the training vlogs from the world’s most elite athletes.

We combed through the libraries of dozens of the top fitness YouTubers to find the ones that offer the right mix of entertainment and education. Here are the top five we found:

Will Tennyson

Will Tennyson isn’t the YouTuber you go to if you want a detailed workout and diet plan for building muscle. While you do learn some about his approach to nutrition and weight lifting, Tennyson is mostly there to entertain. His best videos are when he tries out fad diets and exercise programs, like the time he ate and trained like The Rock for 24 hours. He has a penchant for one-liners and sexual innuendo, and he even sometimes throws in some sketch comedy. He may not make you a…

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