THE HEALTH DIARIES

YouTube Pilates Star Cassey Ho on Burnout and the Internet

‘I’m doing the best I can to teach people that fitness is not about how you look. It’s about becoming stronger than who you were yesterday.’

There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.

Cassey Ho had just graduated from college when she got her first taste of internet fame. During school she taught a Pilates class at the local 24 Hour Fitness, and her students were sad she was moving away after graduation. She promised to post a video of a 10-minute class for them on YouTube before she departed.

Two weeks later, Ho logged back into the website and found that thousands of people had watched her class. A decade later, Ho’s YouTube channel, Blogilates, has more than 4.5 million subscribers. As a woman of color, Ho has been outspoken on the issues of body positivity and diversity in the online wellness space. She chatted with Elemental about her daily routine and why being “healthy” is about more than just working out.

Right now I wake up around 6 a.m. I have several alarms that go off in the morning; I can trust that at least one of…