The 21 Best Health and Fitness Podcasts

Last updated on September 22nd, 2020

As we face the dawn of a new year, many of us are contemplating the time-honored tradition of compiling our new year’s resolutions, usually chief among them to live healthier and get fit. Unfortunately, another time-honored tradition is the eventual failure to follow through with our resolutions. “Live healthier and get fit” is often the first to fall to the wayside. Podcasts are a great way to stay motivated throughout your workout, providing fitness tips and ways to improve your diet. The health and fitness podcasts featured below are sure to motivate you not only to start the new year off right, but to fortify you if and when your resolve wanes.

If you are already living a healthy, fit, and active lifestyle, fret not, these podcasts are perfect for you too. They are just more tools for your arsenal in the quest to living your best life now. Check out the best health, fitness, and wellness podcasts.

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1. Fitness Confidential

The Fitness Confidential podcast is the brainchild of celebrity fitness trainer Vinnie Tortorich, author of a book with the same title. Vinnie, along with a plethora of expert guests, and co-host, cookbooker Anna Vocino, dispenses sound nutritional and fitness advice, in a funny, entertaining way. The podcast focuses on whole-life wellness and includes a diverse range of podcasts like Overcoming Emotional Obstacles with Weight Loss, Beating Leukemia with Family Support, Brain Functions and Ketones, and Getting to the Gym While Traveling. More importantly Vince usually has a relevant expert on the podcast who easily explains and answer questions for listeners.

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2. 20 Minute Fitness

The 20 Minute Fitness podcast focuses on the latest science, methodology, and technology in the world of fitness. Listeners are treated to snippets of less than – wait for it – twenty minutes, where they are informed on a variety of the latest fitness developments like mindful eating, muscle cramping, antioxidants, how technology can help to stay hydrated, and a slew of others. The twenty-minute episodes are perfect for the daily commute to work and the information disseminated is easy for all listeners to understand. The hosts are also known to respond to questions posted by listeners in a timely and thorough fashion.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher

3. Optimal Health Daily

Optimal Health Daily is perfect for listeners who don’t have the time or desire to search for the best health and fitness podcasts. Enter Optimal Health Daily. Their hosts curate fitness podcasts, health blogs, and other related resources to bring their listeners the latest and most up-to-date information and the fast-paced world of wellness. “Precise and concise” is how one Apple Podcast listener described the podcast. As one would expect from a curated podcast, topics are wide, varied and often off-the-wall, broaching such subjects as 7 Things You Can Do Right Now To Feel Better, Do You Have Fruit Fear?, and even (my favorite) Does Coffee Make You Poop?. All episodes are under 15 minutes in length, but are chock-full of useful, helpful information and advice.

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4. Hurdle

If you like a healthy dose of inspiration in your health and wellness diet, Hurdle is the podcast for you. Host Emily Abbate, a self-described fitness aficionado, reaches out to and converses with a diverse range of people, ranging from Fortune 500 CEOs to average Joes, who have used health and fitness as a crutch to overcome challenging times, or hurdles. They share with you their personal conflicts and struggles, how focusing on wellness help them to defeat their demons, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. If you find your motivation diminishing, a few episodes of Hurdle is just the prescription to get you back on the path of living a happier and healthier life.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify

5. The Health Code Podcast

Australian-based The Health Code Podcast features health and fitness YouTuber Sarah Stevenson (aka Sarah’s Day) and her personal trainer boyfriend, Kurt Tilse. Their chemistry palpable, this dynamic duo sets their podcast apart from traditional health and fitness podcasts by focusing not just on the tried-and-true subjects of fitness, health, and wellness, but also topics such as life goals, building self-confidence, career goals, and relationships. Sarah’s spunky, can-do attitude combined with her witty, back-and-forth banter with her fitness-savvy partner, Kurt, makes for a fun, yet informative, podcast that leaves listeners not only feeling good, but eager and anxious to take on whatever life has in store for them.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Spotify

6. Eat, Move, and Live Better

Brought to us by Precision Nutrition, the Eat, Move, and Live Better podcast is the most nutrition-based podcast on our list. Surprisingly, although sponsored by the self-described “home of the world’s top nutrition coaches”, is devoid of the usual sales pitch type fluff sponsored podcast normally push. Instead, listeners are treated to solid, research-based content from qualified professionals who break down and explain complex nutrition and health coaching concepts in a straightforward, no nonsense, easy-to-comprehend way that makes sense. By breaking nutrition and health habits into small steps, Eat, Move, and Live Better shows listeners that the journey to a healthier life. The podcast realizes and conveys that everyone is different and no diet or fitness plan fits all.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher

7. The Dumbbells

Combining comedy with fitness may be unorthodox, but The Dumbbells pulls it off flawlessly. Improv comedians, Eugene Cordero and Ryan Stanger use self-deprecating humor as a backdrop for their podcast where they answer questions from fellow comedians on health and fitness. Both hosts have a fitness background, as well – Cordero was once a crossfit trainer, and Sanger an ex-college football player and personal trainer. Besides a healthy dose of laughter, the duo doles out great eating tips and excellent workout and fitness advice with gentle nudges to motivate the listener along the way. The chemistry and repartee between the two and the comedians they invite to their podcast is as entertaining as it gets.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify

8. Move Your DNA

Biochemist, author, and podcaster Katy Bowman believes that our society has become too sedentary and needs to move more. Her podcast, Move Your DNA, reflects those sentiments. Katy is a leader of The Movement Movement, founded in 2014 “to rapidly and radically appeal to people who sit all day, feel trapped by their desk and expectations of (perceived) productivity.” Move Your DNA highlights such health-related issues as sleep-deprivation, feet and foot health, our relationship with social media, and even such mundane activities as breathing. Move Your DNA leaves no stone unturned when it comes to your wellbeing, be it physical, mental, or emotional.

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9. The Ultimate Health Podcast

The Ultimate Health Podcast is hosted by former chiropractor Jesse Chappus along with author and nutritionist Marni Wasserman. The pair regularly interview health and fitness experts where they delve into a virtual cornucopia of wellness issues running the gamut from lifestyle and nutrition, sleep habits and meditation, to self-help and meditation. Jesse and Marni’s informative and helpful content is entertaining as well and earned them a devoted legion of listeners. The duo is particularly on their game in their Focus Friday episodes where they tackle a health subject that they are especially passionate about.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify

10. 40+ Fitness Podcast

The 40+ Fitness Podcast is tailored for individuals in their forties, fifties, sixties and above. Host Coach Allan Misner, unhappy with his unhealthy lifestyle, began a journey that resulted in a loss of 55 pounds, as well as him becoming a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer and a Functional Aging Institute (FAI) Certified Functional Aging Specialist. Through his podcast, Coach Allan not only shares his remarkable journey with his listeners, he regularly hosts health and fitness experts where they discuss a multitude of topics relevant to those over the age forty such as one’s relationship with alcohol, cholesterol, back pain, diabetes, and a slew of other subjects. Helpful hint: Coach Allan’s 11 Tips for Sticking With a Workout Regimen will prove helpful to listeners starting a ‘health kick’ in the new year.

Listen: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify

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