The 2024 SELF Activewear Awards are here! This year, we tapped 7 skilled judges to figure out the very best sports bras and leggings on the marketplace. Our judges are a genuinely amazing group– they are fitness instructors, neighborhood organizers, moms, yogis, runners, and authors who all share a love of feel-good motion for every single body.
Throughout our screening and evaluation procedure, everybody you’ll satisfy listed below weighed in on the products and brand names they enjoy and count on, watching on pieces that are comfy, resilient, fairly priced, and, obviously, adorable. They shared when and how they use their equipment (for a marathon? to hop over to Trader Joe’s?), significant functions they enjoy, and even disadvantages anybody shopping may wish to know.
We’re delighted to present you to all of our 2024 Activewear Awards judges below. And do not forget to have a look at all of our winnershere
Alison Mariella Désir
Alison Mariella Désir is the author of Running While Black; host and manufacturer of the acclaimed PBS program Out & & Back with Alison Mariella Désir; and the host of Out & & Back‘s buddy podcast. She is the creator of Harlem Run Run 4 All Womenand the Running Industry Diversity Coalition
Cameron Oaks Rogers
Cameron Oaks Rogers is a psychological health champ, neighborhood manager, and mother of 2 who is enthusiastic about highlighting the difficulties of pregnancy, postpartum anxiety, and motherhood that are frequently unmentioned or ignored. Cameron is the creator and host of Freckled Foodie & & Friends, a weekly podcast produced by Dear Media.
Chrissy King
Chrissy King is an author, speaker, teacher, and previous strength coach with an enthusiasm for producing a varied and inclusive health market. She is likewise the author of The Body Liberation Project With degrees in social justice and sociology from Marquette University, Chrissy looks for to motivate members of the physical fitness market to produce areas that permit everybody to feel seen, invited, verified, and commemorated.
Jessica Rihal
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Jessica Rihal is a plus-size yoga trainer and supporter who thinks that all bodies can be (and should have to be) commemorated through motion. She is devoted to assisting others reconstruct and redefine their connection to work out and is based in Irvine, California.
Laura Burns
Laura Burns is a licensed yoga instructor and fitness instructor (E-RYT200/ YACEP), an ambassador for the Yoga & & Body Image Coalitionand the leader of the Houston chapter of Fat Girls HikingAs the creator of Radical Body Loveshe assists folks recover from body pity and injustice so they can empower themselves to live the lives they should have. Her book, Huge and Bold: Yoga for the Plus Size Woman is readily available all over books are offered.
Lauren Leavell
Lauren Leavell is a NASM-certified individual fitness instructor and group physical fitness trainer based in Philadelphia. She began operating in physical fitness 7 years ago with the objective of making motion more available and happy for all and is now the owner of a virtual physical fitness platform that consists of barre, HIIT, and strength classes live and as needed.
Lianne Saffer
Lianne Saffer is a founding trainer at Barry’s Portland. She has actually been teaching Spin, Lagree, and HIIT classes because 2013. She is likewise the author of Please, Don’t Send Me Flowers a narrative about her experience going through divorce, coming out, and being identified with cancer.