We’d just met in person the week before, as the coronavirus crisis was starting to bubble up in earnest stateside. “It’s a really interesting time,” Adriene tells me over Zoom, repeating herself for emphasis. Exercise instructors are improvising the best they can with impromptu livestreams on Instagram and scheduled classes via Zoom fitness apps are seeing explosive growth. Hell, with gyms, boutique fitness studios, and community centers across the US newly shuttered, at-home anything is our only guided exercise option, period. What was once offered as an accessible, affordable alternative to a studio setting, at-home yoga is, for the foreseeable future, the only option for people who want to do yoga.

The 553 videos in her YouTube library have netted more than 597 million combined views. The classes are startlingly specific, customized to professions and hobbies ( Yoga for Gardeners! Yoga for Skaters! Yoga for Chefs!) and health conditions ( Yoga for PTSD, Yoga for Migraines, Yoga for Diabetes), not to mention a vast collection of practices designed to ease suffering ( Yoga for Suffering, for starters). Since the Yoga With Adriene YouTube account started in 2012, it has amassed 7.27 million subscribers. Adriene hosts Yoga With Adriene, an astoundingly popular YouTube channel predicated on a simple premise: You attend yoga classes led by Adriene in your home, which she streams from her home, for free. Coronavirus notwithstanding, she’d still be home, and, quite possibly, in your home. The 35-year-old yoga teacher has been on self-imposed lockdown since March 13 her home city of Austin, Texas, where I also live, didn’t issue its stay-at-home order until April 2, well after San Francisco and New York City but before many other places in the US. You’re reading this during the coronavirus pandemic.Īdriene Mishler is also home.

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No one wants to enter a gym after a long winter of avoiding doing just that, only to glue themselves to the closest cardio machine and hope for the best. And second, regardless of what many popular gym chains may want members to believe, “gymtimidation” is very real and very miserable. Why? Well, one, those gyms are just too damn hot for a mid-July workout. So what do you do? Do you get a gym membership and promise that you’ll go every morning right before overspending on a picture-worthy acai bowl? Unfortunately, for all of us late to the gym game (those that didn’t quite follow through on those New Year’s Resolutions but have big plans to crush them next year), that coveted summer body might not be a reality just yet. Whether due to the general decrease in clothing worn or the soaring temperatures that just make everything uncomfortable, people want to look and feel good. With the official start of summer, the desire to be physically fit and achieve that “beach body” (whatever that is) is at a seasonal high. Editor’s Note: This originally ran in June 2017.

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