Virtual Fitness Guide For 2021
Digital Fitness Resources Perfect for Anyone Low on Time, Resources, or Experience
Digital Fitness Resources Perfect for Anyone Low on Time, Resources, or Experience
2020 brought a handful of new challenges to getting or staying in shape, but despite 2021 challenges, we found many ways to make reaching your fitness goals easier. In this first article we provide a host of digital resources designed to help you get fit from nearly anywhere, for less.
Editor's Top Pick
Bringing back a top FREE Offer from 2020 most people forgot about...Peloton Fitness
This special 90 Day FREE trial was released at the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic but is still available, don’t miss out.
Access both live and on-demand workouts from any device. Select workouts that range from no additional equipment to ones that make great use of home equipment. Includes a myriad of options such as walking, high intensity training, running, cycling, boot camps, trouble area specifics including improving your core, plus audio only classes for outdoor workouts.
Special Finds
Multiple New FREE and Low Cost Live Events Daily
Events.com makes finding unique live virtual events a breeze
Since the start of the COVID outbreak instructors have continued to add more workouts and live events to events.com. If you’d like a change of pace or want add interest to your workouts start your search here.
Find Lots of Local Fitness Meet Ups in the DMV Area
Meetup is a often forgotten gem to make fitness more fun
Don’t miss out on your chance to visit new places, experience new opportunities to stay healthy and meet new friends. You’ll find in person and virtual events here with many groups emphasizing distancing but still allowing the group energy to make workouts better for all.
Find Lots of New and Unique Fitness Classes on Events.com
You’ll discover both free and low cost local fitness classes in a wide variety of areas
Looking for new and interesting ways to meet your fitness goals. Expand your search in seconds and find some exciting events by visiting this page on events.com. Search and sort by time, date, cost, distance from your location, interest, and more.
Top FREE Online Workout Videos
Fitness Blender - 500 Free Practical Workouts for Your Unique Fitness Journey
Great COMPLETELY FREE resource of 500 Effective Virtual Workouts for Everyone
Access over 500 videos from this husband-and-wife fitness expert couple (with over 25 years experience between them) for a great fitness start/reboot at zero cost. Their well-organized videos allow you to choose your fitness journey from any starting point or fitness goal. Many exercises require no gear while others expand into low cost gear like bands and kettle bells to increase your workout options.
Planet Fitness - Free Easy to Complete Daily Workouts Perfect for Home
Small space workouts prefect for the whole family
Instead of videos with trainers recording in their workout studios or gyms, discover an increasing workout library in trainers’ living rooms often with their families. Why is this important to you? These workouts fit into your lifestyle because the trainers made them fit into their own lives as well. So enjoy encouraging videos requiring little gear or space, great for motivation right now.
YMCA 360 - Wide Array of Fitness Videos for All Ages and Even Sports Areas
We recommend you use this well organized list of on demands videos to explore a variety of different fitness areas from one platform. Choose your area of interest from videos on: Body blitz, chair yoga (great for seniors and persons with less mobility), beginner Pilates, belly dance, beginner latin dance, , tai chi, high intensity training and much more.
The trainers are experts, but you can enjoy them as a beginner of nearly any age. They provide videos for seniors and training/exercise videos for kids in areas like soccer and football.
Well and Good - Videos and Tip Articles will help you find great workouts for free
Well and Good offers another great place to start with looking for exercises and workouts when you are not sure what you like. Combine their video page with their website https://www.wellandgood.com/fitness-tips/ and you can get a great start with just 30 minutes of free time.
Daily Top Workouts for Strength and General Fitness
Orange Theory videos deliver their energizing group interval fitness concept to your home. Orangetheory Fitness is a one-of-a-kind workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training. Their daily videos include full workouts and smaller exercises optimized for ease of completion from home.
Orange Theory - New Daily Videos with Full Workouts and Great Exercise Training Videos
Heart and Soul Fitness offers over 7 years of videos organized into workouts, fitness plans plus nutrition guides and recipes to help you customize the best personal fitness plan. Add their take-along app and fitness level optimized workouts; you now have the right tools to embark on a great fitness journey. Whether you need a 30-day challenge, want to learn more about fitness, or to see an award winning fitness channel; Hasfit can help you.
Amazon Prime - Get Top Videos for Workout and Nutrition for FREE
Amazon Prime provides a large assortment of free, high quality exercise and nutrition shows. Probably not the first place anyone was looking could become the only resource you need to get great results in 2021. Take a look at over 500 available shows by following this link.
Great Apps for Starting or Restarting Toward Your Fitness Goals
Nike Training App
Premium workouts now being offered at zero cost
Hands down a favorite free resource for workout videos and workout plans. Nike offers their premium account videos they once charged $15 plus per month for a few months ago. Their change of plans to serve more people worldwide is your gain. Enjoy thousands of videos from top experts in many different fitness areas.
Pear Fitness App
Robust options for every workout level
Pear starts you off by giving you the options that make workouts sticky, more engaging and fun. Taught by many expert trainers, you get custom plans and audio coaching while you complete your workouts. You choose from a host of options: activity, duration, goals, fitness levels, body area to work on, etc. and Pear Fitness builds a complete workout plan for you.
FitOn App
Get Recommend Workouts from Top Celebrity Trainers to Match Your Unique Fitness Plan
FitOn allows you to access the most popular and trending workouts right away for free. Offering help with fat burn, building muscle, ideal heart rates, and much more; FitOn connects the science of fitness with a host of workouts for every user level. Great for beginners because the app walks you step by step through your workout to the results you want.
Seven App
When it comes to getting started or maintaining, we know from our site visitors that time is the killer of fitness goals. Overcome lack of time by finding just seven minutes to exercise. Seven provides a variety of workouts around your particular fitness goals starting at seven minutes and costing you nothing.
J & J 7-Minute App
Got 7 minutes? Then you can do a workout from almost anywhere and with little to no equipment at the right intensity level for you. If you have even more time then you can select from a host of options including Beginner 9 Minute Workout, The 21 Minute Cardio Blast, and a Core Workout.
Several options within the J&J app allow you to workout from your chair, while walking and in other scenarios. The sound features mean you do not have to look at the screen as you exercise (a huge plus when you focus on your movements).
Johnson and Johnson App also has several custom features. Their Smart Workout finds others exercises based on those you have previously liked. The app also allows to set the rep, rest, and set numbers for any exercises so you can increase the intensity to match your fitness level.
8-Fit App
8fit guides you step by step through on-demand workouts and meal planning.
Name your goals: strength, weight loss, inches, gain muscle, and so on. Then watch as the 8fit app puts together workouts, schedules, and nutrition plans for you.
8fit provides high value because it offers suggestions, reminders, shopping lists, and instructions to those who want extra guidance.
8fit acts as a training coach with videos, tips and more for exercises plus automated follow ups to assist you every step of the way in your fitness journey.
Great FREE Trials
Booya Fitness / 30 Days
On Demand Workouts / Plans with Advanced Workout Builder Tool
Booya Fitness gives 30 days free, which provides you with enough time to see results and building consistency needed for long term success. We highly recommend this option because Booya offers so many categories (kickboxing, Dance, High Intensity, and much more). This allows you to experiment until you find what works for you the most important key to making a healthy lifestyle change.
The Optimal Me
Improve Your Movement as You Age Healthily (40+ years of age)
Optimum.me created a truly unique improving the aging body workout plan that helps us to increase movement as we age. This means we can improve everything we do: walking, working, play, (including our workouts) by following their exercise models. We invite you to discover how their different approach to exercise can benefit you at zero risk.
