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The best home workouts to try right now

Favourite studio closed? Queue up these livestream and online fitness classes

By Nancy Wang Posted: Monday February 10 2020

Photograph: courtesy Daily Yoga
Feeling out of shape and unable to leave home in the meantime? Get down with one of these home workout programmes and get yourself back on track. The best things about working out at home are that you can choose your own priorities, save time on a commute to the gym and most importantly, go at your own pace.
F45 Training

F45 Training

If you feel like you've been sitting at home doing nothing, group training cult F45 are also showing support to Shanghai by releasing daily videos featuring high-intensity interval training classes every morning to its members. If you aren't a member and have been thinking of joining, now's the time. For more information, follow its official WeChat account 'Functional45'.

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Pure Yoga

Pure Yoga

If intensive workouts aren’t your speed at the moment, Asia's largest yoga chain, Pure Yoga, has an online yoga video platform that you can do at home. It offers a variety of classes from its asana library and a selection of yoga interest videos featuring certified, world-class teachers. Select your preferred language and follow the videos to practise wherever you are. To find the free classes, click here.

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Nike Training Club

Nike Training Club

This Nike-branded app acts as your 'ultimate personal trainer'. It offers a library of more than 185 free workouts from strength- and endurance-based routines to mobility and yoga sessions, all featuring virtual guidance from Nike Master Trainers. Don't know where to start? Luckily, the app provides daily recommendations with different levels, and the more workouts you log, the more personalised these picks become. 


Download the app on iOS or Android.

Adidas Training

Adidas Training

Another branded app, Adidas Training doesn't require much time or equipment to break a sweat. This app offers seven- to 45-minute-long workouts from its library of over 180 standalone exercises and a 'workout creator' that helps you generate custom sweat sessions designed to fit your specific goals.


Download the app on iOS or Android.

Daily Yoga

Daily Yoga

Whether you're a yoga newbie, advanced practitioner or just somewhere in between, Daily Yoga offers classes for all levels. Find your flow with its extensive volume of content of over 50 class plans and workouts, over 500 poses and over 200 courses with HD videos. The best part is that you get to choose your workout length from five-minute quickies to longer 70-minute sessions.


Download the app on iOS or Android.

Fitness Blender

Fitness Blender

Fitness Blender is another go-to home workout programme. The site offers over 500 free workout full-length videos for every fitness level and goal with new workouts released every week. Here you will be able to find fat-burning exercises, kickboxing routines, total body strength training to boosting metabolism, stretching sequences and more.

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