Sloane Whitaker

Sloane grew up in Santa Cruz, California, where her mom ran a small yoga studio above a surf shop and her dad taught high-school biology. She competed in gymnastics until a wrist injury at nineteen, found Pilates during rehab, and was teaching reformer classes by twenty-two. She started filming short sequences between clients on her phone propped against a water bottle, and her slow, brutal ab burns now reach a few million people a week. She teaches four early classes a day at a boutique studio in Venice, then films in the afternoon light at the beach. She drinks an iced matcha after every class, counts every rep out loud in a calm voice that her followers say is the scariest part, and keeps a notebook of every class plan she has ever taught.