I don’t know if these folks necessarily fall into the category of science-based health and fitness influencers, but they are definitely great educators!īriannah Jewel– Dietetics student and personal trainer who reviews MLM workout schemes, weird supplements, and other pseudoscience.Īmanda Howell– Public Health educator who does a lot of debunking and explanations on current health topics. While I’m sure they use these titles because people search for them, spot reducing fat is not possible, so no matter how much you “tone” part of your body, you won’t get rid of the fat there. The only “downside” I see is the number of clickbaity and unscientific titles on their YouTube channel, things like “lose belly fat” or workouts for “back fat and bra bulge”. Their workouts are solid, they have excellent form, and they don’t waste a lot of time talking about weird health tips. Muscle (Mike) holds an AIQ Level 3 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training. Muscle (Viv) holds a BSc Hons Degree in Sports Science, an AIQ Level 3 Diploma in Fitness Instructing and Personal Training, and a Level 5 Advanced Sports and Exercise Nutritional Advisor. Similar to Caroline Girvan, their workouts don’t involve lots of talking, and depend on HIIT training (short intervals of exercise followed by short intervals of rest. Muscle are a couple who post regular, minimal-equipment workout videos. However, as I’ve talked about before, there are ways to analyze the scientific validity of something beyond just using good sources. Overall, I think she interprets the articles she cites well, and her content is at least a good step towards making people cite their sources for health and fitness claims. Best to go to a doctor and sort this out, rather than shell out a bunch of money on “testing” and cut a bunch of things out of your diet unnecessarily. There are a lot of causes of perceived hormonal imbalances. While these diets may have some validity, there’s not a lot of evidence-based information on these types of diets unless you have PCOS or another medical condition. She does have some clickbaity titles (which I get, because of algorithms), and makes some videos on things like hormone balancing diets. No need to get down to an unhealthy body fat percentage. If you work them through hypertrophy, you can grow them, and they can become more visible. I recently watched a video of hers where she contested the “abs are made in the kitchen” claim- abs are muscles, and they grow like all other muscles. She cites her sources in her videos, and she debunks myths about spot-reduction and other unhelpful. Her fitness content on YouTube is awesome. I understand that the pressure to be fit and have a certain physique is massive in health and fitness circles, but I personally don’t like to follow this content on the reg, as it doesn’t align with my personal goals for fitness. While I don’t know her relationship with food, I don’t love this kind of content because I think it puts too much focus on aesthetics. Since then, she does things like “physique checks” almost daily on her Instagram. She gained quite a bit of weight, and lost it as she settled into a “set weight”. In the past few years, she went “all-in” (eating to the point of satiety every time), because her hunger cues were out of sync from years of extreme dieting as a fitness competitor. In her older YouTube videos, she does an excellent job of breaking this down. She’s clearly smart and capable of reading/understanding the scientific literature out there. Stephanie has a PhD (and a patent!) for her research on ovarian cancer.
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The YouTube workout plans she offers for free are excellent, especially if you want some no-equipment workouts that will kick your butt! I completed her (for purchase) CUT program in 2019, and I loved the variety of the workouts as well as the fact that the nutrition guide was created by an RD and didn’t contain any weird food advice/calorie counting. She’s used her large following to debunk Tik-Tok health and fitness myths, and publicly stated that she dropped a Gymshark contract earlier this year because she wasn’t happy with the amount of pseudoscience being promoted through their channels.
Some of her earlier videos contain “cheat day” content and other things that don’t really align with best practices for overall health and fitness, BUT she has since spoken about these videos and explained how she has grown and learned since then (we love to see it!). When I first started watching her, she was a biophysics master’s student who had a lot more running-related content. She’s probably my favorite science-based health and fitness influencer because she’s real and funny.
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