We Made the Record (Twice!): FBG Named Amongst Gre...

Cue the confetti, seize your favourite beverage, and be a part of us in a contented dance as a result of …

Match Bottomed Ladies was simply named one in all FeedSpot’s Best Fitness Blogs & Websites AND Best Women’s Fitness Podcasts of 2025!

Sure, each. 🏆🏆

As one of many longest-running girls’s well being platforms within the recreation, this recognition means the world to us—not simply because we made the checklist, however as a result of it affirms the mission we’ve been championing since day one: altering the dialog round health, well being, and wellness for ladies.

In a world overflowing with clickbait well being recommendation, bogus and unregulated complement claims, detox scams, and wellness influencers who recommend sticking espresso up your butt to treatment all that ails you, we’re over right here doing one thing a bit of totally different …

Serving up actual, science-backed, bullshit-free conversations about health, well being, and power for ladies—with out the disgrace, skinny obsession, or six-pack mandates.

So to see this work acknowledged? After 17 years of publishing, podcasting, myth-busting, lifting girls up (generally actually)?

It’s such a flippin’ honor.

Meet the Voices Behind the Magic

This recognition isn’t only a win for the model—it’s a celebration of the fierce, humorous, and clever girls who assist me convey content material to you each week.

• Alex helps you attain your targets with out burnout and has a present for turning nervous system work into feel-good self-leadership.
• Naomi is your go-to for feminist fire and anti-diet-culture mic drops, all grounded in science and lived expertise.
• Karin brings heat, nuance, accessibility, and evidence-based wisdom to every thing she touches.
• Marlene provides grounded, compassionate, and refreshingly real-life takes on nourishment and motherhood.
• Krysty empowers by sharing her journey to radical self-acceptance by way of sobriety and bucking wellness industry BS.

Collectively, they make FBG what it’s: a gentle place to land and a powerful push ahead.

As Editor-in Chief of this gifted crew of professional coaches, lecturers, writers, and athletes, I couldn’t be extra stoked with the professionalism, creativity, and care that I see from this group each single day.

Why This Issues Proper Now

This recognition of each the weblog and podcast isn’t nearly bragging rights (although we’ll completely take them). It’s about credibility in a panorama that’s gotten louder, scarier, and extra misinformed by the day.

Let’s be actual—there’s no scarcity of well being and wellness content material on the market today. However not all of it’s good. Actually, loads of what’s out there’s complicated at greatest and downright dangerous at worst—particularly for ladies and menstruating people navigating getting older, hormones, health, and physique picture in a tradition that also earnings from our insecurities and self-doubt.

That’s why this second issues.

At a time when clickbait headlines, weight-reduction plan scams, and viral “wellness hacks” dominate the algorithm, being acknowledged for our evidence-based, empowering, and inclusive content material is a reminder that truth-telling nonetheless issues. And that’s precisely what we’ve at all times been about.

Girls and menstruating people deserve higher than:

• Lies that leverage their poor shallowness to make cash
• Worry-mongering over completely regular anatomical responses like hormone fluctuations
• Extra “shoulds” so as to add to their already-overflowing to-do lists with no help
• Disgrace-inducing content material that blames them for “making excuses” as a substitute of recognizing the burden of their emotional labor

They deserve good content material. Grounded science. Permission to hearken to their our bodies. And a spot to belong whereas doing it.

That’s what we’ve been doing since 2008—and we’re simply getting warmed up.

A Big Thank You to Our Readers (Sure, You)

This recognition isn’t nearly us—it’s about you, our readers.

You’re those who present up for considerate, science-backed content material. Who care about coaching for power, not simply shrinking. Who wish to really feel good in your physique and problem the established order. You’re the rationale we preserve doing what we do—and why we’ve been capable of do it for practically twenty years.

We additionally wish to give an enormous shoutout to our sensible, badass coaches, athletes, researchers, and actual girls who convey lived expertise, deep data, and refreshing honesty to each piece we publish.

Be A part of What’s Subsequent

Whether or not you’re a long-time reader, a brand new listener, or somebody who simply stumbled in on the lookout for squat recommendation and stayed for the “holy sh*t, this seems like me” content material—thanks. We’re so glad you’re right here.

We’re honored to be on these lists, however much more honored to be on your studying checklist, in your earbuds, and in your nook.

We’ve bought much more truth-telling, myth-busting, no-BS content material coming your means—plus new interviews, coaching recommendation, deep dives into girls’s well being, and actual discuss what it means to truly really feel good in your physique.

Wish to preserve the great things coming? Join our publication so that you by no means miss what’s subsequent. Extra actual speak, extra resistance, extra pleasure—and 0 nonsense.

Thanks for being a part of this wild, great trip. Right here’s to the following chapter of Match Bottomed Ladies. —Alison