“I truly believe that I can do anything,' she says. Through years of dedication, Melissa’s hard work has not just paid off physically but in all areas of her life.

“It morphed from me just wanting to have abs to me saying 'yes' to myself, choosing myself, and putting love into myself every single day,' she told Women’s Health. But after a short space of time, it become so much more than that. In her early-thirties, with a young child, a processed-food addiction, and no expensive gym membership, Melissa Alcantara had had enough. She began working out in her own kitchen – initially to simply burn off the weight she had gained during her pregnancy. Kim Kardashian's most celebrated personal trainer, Melissa Alcantara (aka Instagram star Fitgurlmel) is quite clearly a force to be reckoned with. A published author and creator of Turnaround - a fitness and nutrition plan that promises serious results – Melissa has forged a path for herself as one of the most influential fitness trainers all thanks to her own dedication and fierce commitment to self-love. In recent months, Adriene has been described as “the patron saint of quarantine” by Paper magazine and “the most influential yoga teacher on the planet” by Refinery29. Her gentle yet encouraging tuition is what has made her channel so popular not just with beginners but also long-time yogis, who find that her unassuming, self-care approach is what keeps them coming back to the mat.

Throughout her nine-year online career as a yoga instructor, Adriene has carved out a name for herself as ‘the people’s yogi’, simply encouraging them to “find what feels good” as they navigate their practice. On a mission to get the tools of yoga into schools and homes, Adriene hosts the YouTube channel Yoga with Adriene, an online community of over 9 million subscribers. Hailing from Waterdown, Ontario, Lymburner is now dubbed ‘Canada’s top YouTube creator’, and regularly produces workout videos for an audience of 5.5 million subscribers on her fitness channel, MadFit.Īlongside YouTube, Lymburner’s Instagram covers a variety of training including strength, yoga and HIIT with the impeccable content being appreciated by her 1.2m followers and earning her an impressive engagement rate of 3.9% per post.Īdriene Mishler is an actress, writer, international yoga teacher and entrepreneur from Austin, Texas. By 2016, she had begun earning modest ad revenues from her YouTube vlogs and would go on to amass 50,000 subscribers, in part due to daily food posts during trips in Thailand, Bali, Australia and Hawaii. A former health food store employee and dancer, Lymburner’s quest to the top began in 2015 when she started posting videos on plant-based eating.

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