The 25 Best Walking Creators to Follow in 2026

Walking is having a moment, and it’s been having one for a few years now. The Hot Girl Walk, the 12-3-30 treadmill workout, silent walking, walking pads under every desk. Behind every one of those trends is a person who made walking look like something worth doing on purpose.

This is our list of the 25 walking creators worth your follow in 2026. Not general fitness influencers who occasionally walk. People whose whole thing is walking: walk-at-home workouts you can do in your living room, 4K walking tours of cities you’ll never visit, the people who started the trends, and a few writers who walk across entire countries and tell you what they saw.

How we picked: walking has to be the main subject, the creator has to be active in 2026, and the audience numbers below come straight from each creator’s own page on September 15, 2026 (rounded). They’ll have changed by the time you read this. The order is by size, not by quality, because ranking a walking-tour cinematographer against a workout coach would be silly.

Walk-at-home workout creators

These are the channels that turned “I’ll just walk in place in front of the TV” into a real workout category. If you own a walking pad, or the weather is bad, or you want to hit your steps without leaving the house, start here.

1. growwithjo

growwithjo is the biggest walking-workout channel on YouTube, with about 9.2 million subscribers and another 3.5 million on TikTok. Jo’s low-impact walking workouts are built for beginners: short, upbeat, no equipment, and easy enough on the joints that people who haven’t exercised in years actually finish them. That’s the whole reason the channel exploded.

2. Walk at Home (Leslie Sansone)

Walk at Home is where the walk-at-home genre started. Leslie Sansone was selling walking-workout videos before YouTube existed, and the channel now sits at about 6 million subscribers. The format hasn’t changed much in decades (walk, side-step, kick, repeat) because it doesn’t need to.

3. Lucy Wyndham-Read

UK trainer Lucy Wyndham-Read has about 2.8 million subscribers and more than a thousand videos, most of them short, standing, walking-based workouts. Her 7-minute walks are the gateway drug: short enough that you can’t talk yourself out of them.

4. Fabulous50s (Schellea Fowler)

Fabulous50s is walking workouts for women over 50, made by someone who is one. Schellea Fowler’s channel has about 2.3 million subscribers and a community that treats the comments section like a group chat. If you’ve been told to “start slow,” this is where slow is done well.

5. Get Fit With Rick

Get Fit With Rick has about a million subscribers and one great idea: pick your walking workout by how many steps you want. Rick Bhullar, a former professional dancer, labels videos by step count and music style, so “I need 3,000 more steps before bed” has an answer.

6. Yes2Next

Yes2Next is April and her mom doing walking and low-impact workouts together, and about 700,000 people subscribe to watch them. It’s the friendliest channel on this list. Seniors, beginners and anyone recovering from something will feel at home.

7. Improved Health

Improved Health runs step-based walking workouts (1,000 steps, 3,000 steps, and so on) for about 575,000 subscribers. Clean, no-nonsense, and easy to slot into a day when you’re short on time.

8. Jessica Smith TV

Jessica Smith has been making walking workouts for well over a decade, and her “Walk On” videos are a staple for the over-40 crowd. About 535,000 subscribers, hundreds of videos, and a calm, coach-in-the-room delivery.

9. PBF Workouts (Pahla B)

Pahla Bowers makes walking workouts and mindset coaching for women over 50, with about 340,000 subscribers and 600-plus videos. Her thing is pairing the walk with a talk: you move, she coaches you through the mental side of getting fit later in life.

10. Senior Fitness With Meredith

Senior Fitness With Meredith is exactly what it says: walking, seated and standing workouts for older adults, about 150,000 subscribers, and a library of 450-plus videos. The pacing is patient and every move gets a modification.

11. Jenny Ford Fitness

Jenny Ford mixes walking workouts with step aerobics for about 145,000 subscribers. If you want a walk with a bit more choreography, and a coach who counts you in, this is the one.

Walking-tour creators

These channels don’t want you to work out. They want you to put on headphones and walk through Tokyo, Rome or Manhattan from your couch. Millions of people do exactly that, and the best ones are genuinely beautiful.

12. Nomadic Ambience

Nomadic Ambience films long, unhurried walks through New York City in every weather, with nothing but street sound. About 1.3 million subscribers. Rain walks are the fan favorites.

13. Prowalk Tours

Prowalk Tours, made by Isaac Harjo, is the gold standard for 4K walking tours of Italy and Europe. About 765,000 subscribers and hundreds of tours, many over two hours, all shot on a stabilized rig at 60 frames per second.

14. Rambalac

Rambalac has been walking Japan on camera since 2017, from Tokyo backstreets to countryside towns, with about 625,000 subscribers and more than 1,500 videos. No narration, no face, just Japan.

15. ActionKid

ActionKid walks New York almost every day and has the archive to prove it: more than 6,000 videos for about 450,000 subscribers. If you want to know what a specific block looked like on a specific day, he was probably there.

16. Watched Walker

Watched Walker does the same thing for London, about 370,000 subscribers deep, with over a thousand walks across the city’s neighborhoods, markets and parks.

17. 4K Urban Life

4K Urban Life covers cities worldwide in crisp 4K for about 360,000 subscribers, with 700-plus walks. Good for the “I’m going there next spring” preview walk.

18. Wind Walk Travel Videos

Wind Walk Travel Videos has about 240,000 subscribers and roughly 650 walks, leaning toward beaches, boardwalks and coastal towns. Calmer than the big-city channels.

19. keezi walks

keezi walks is the smaller, cozier option: about 93,000 subscribers and 600-plus walks through Dutch and European towns and countryside. The kind of channel you find and then binge.

The trend starters

Three people whose videos changed how a lot of us walk.

20. Lauren Giraldo (12-3-30)

Lauren Giraldo invented the 12-3-30 workout (12 percent incline, 3 miles per hour, 30 minutes on a treadmill), and it’s still one of the most searched workouts on the internet. About 657,000 TikTok followers. We’ve looked at whether 12-3-30 actually works, and the short answer is yes, for the reasons she said it would.

21. Mia Lind (Hot Girl Walk)

Mia Lind coined the Hot Girl Walk in 2021 as a USC student: a long walk where you only think about your goals, what you’re grateful for, and how hot you are. It’s now a trademarked brand with in-person events in dozens of cities, a Substack with about 85,000 subscribers, and a TikTok following of 115,000. Say what you want about the name; it got a lot of people walking.

22. Mady Maio (silent walking)

Mady Maio started the silent walking trend in 2023: no phone, no music, no podcast, just a 30-minute walk with your own thoughts. About 60,000 TikTok followers, and a trend that got covered by half the internet. The advice holds up.

Long walks and walking writers

For the people who walk to think, and then write it down.

23. Homemade Wanderlust (Dixie)

Dixie has thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail on camera, and her channel is about 450,000 subscribers and nearly 900 videos of trail life, gear and honest advice. Technically hiking, but if you’ve ever wondered what walking 2,000 miles does to a person, start here.

24. Chris Arnade (Walks the World)

Chris Arnade left a Wall Street career to walk cities, from Lagos to Louisville, and writes about what he sees in a Substack with more than 40,000 subscribers. It’s the best writing about walking on the internet, and it’s mostly about people, not steps.

25. Craig Mod (Ridgeline)

Craig Mod walks the old roads of Japan, hundreds of kilometers at a stretch, and writes the Ridgeline newsletter about it. His books (including Things Become Other Things) came out of those walks. If you want walking as a way of paying attention, he’s the one.

Who did we miss?

Honorable mentions: Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast recorded on a walk (about 1,800 episodes and counting), and Ambient Walking on YouTube. And a shout to the walking clubs (City Girls Who Walk and its many spin-offs) that got a generation to walk together instead of alone.

If your favorite walking creator isn’t here, tell us. And if all of this has you wanting to actually count the steps, Vima Walk maps your walks on your iPhone or Apple Watch and keeps the stats without a feed to scroll.