The Christmas holiday season has likely gotten us eating more food than we’d like to admit. Now that you’re in 2025, it’s time for you to get back on track with your eating and health and fitness goals.

Perhaps one of your New Year’s resolutions is to prioritize your well-being or to shed a few pounds by the summer. You might even be so passionate about health and wellness that it happens to be one of your hobbies. But have you ever considered that your passion for health and fitness could be monetized this year?

This way, if you do decide to turn it into an income streams, it’s a win-win scenario because you’ll be more motivated towards achieving your fitness goals and you’ll be holding yourself accountable in the process.

3 Hobbies To Make Money In 2025

Below are three hobbies that have the double advantage of enabling you to make money and achieve your financial goals, while at the same time keeping you fit and healthy so you can achieve your fitness goals for the year ahead. It couldn’t get any better, could it?

1. Start Sports Coaching

If you’re an experienced coach or are passionate about a specific sport that you know very well, and are confident that you could teach someone to perfect their skills in the same sport, you can register to be a sports coach on freelance platforms such as CoachUp, which makes it easier for you to connect with professionals and aspiring athletes looking to refine their sports technique.

According to the platform, sports coaches can earn on average $45 an hour, although you can set your prices higher, depending on your level of expertise.

2. Become A Nutrition Coach

If you’re passionate about food and find yourself inventing new recipes and inspiring others with your culinary ideas and knowledge, why not consider taking your interest further and learning about nutrition so you can benefit others with more in-depth expertise?

Through undertaking training like the ISSA Nutrition Certification, which is one of the industry’s leading recognized certification programs for nutritionist in the United States, you can learn the ins and outs of food and nutrition, and add this to your skill set as a personal trainer or online fitness coach. You can make money creating customized meal and nutrition plans for specific niches.

You can make $30 an hour on average as a freelancer in this field, per Salary.com estimates.

3. Become An Online Yoga Instructor

If you’re more into mindfulness and enhancing overall wellbeing, and find yourself frequenting your local yoga studio, perhaps becoming a yoga instructor or teacher might be a venture worth pursuing this year.

You can make money through creating a virtual yoga studio, where you host online classes. Or you can build a community online so you can reach students from all over the world. Although online averages for a yoga instructor show that you can earn $22 an hour, you can earn more money through leveraging other income-generating streams such as posting videos on YouTube, Instagram, or even TikTok as an influencer, while building partnerships, sponsorships, and making money through affiliate marketing.

Other health-conscious options for a side hustle this year include:

• Personal training
• Fitness blogging and vlogging
• Becoming a brand ambassador for fitness brands
• Hosting online dance/Zumba classes
• Selling fitness accessories or gear including motivational apparel as print-on-demand products on Amazon, Shopify, or Etsy

This year, hold yourself accountable to stick to your fitness and health goals, by sharing your journey and what you’re learning along the way with others. As you continue to grow your side hustle and your audience, who knows, your hobby might just turn into a lucrative career for you.