All of my favorite irl studios are now streaming virtual classes, perfect for offsetting my extra wine consumption and giving my sheltered-at-home brain an endorphin boost. Many classes don’t require kitted-out home gym set-ups, and instead rely on either plain, old bodyweight or household items from chairs and soup cans to towels and bottles of wine. Ranging from dance cardio to bootcamps to barre, here are the top streaming workouts I’m relying on to keep my abs, buns and sanity intact, to the other side of the safer-at-home wine fest.
Barry’s virtual Red Room is offered just about on the hour, every hour throughout the day. Workouts are abridged to 35 minutes per class to suit at-home attention spans (just me?) and conducted over Zoom. Schedules are organized by region: east, central and west, in order to provide familiar instructors and time slots. As in traditional Barry’s Bootcamp classes, different muscle groups are the focus on different days, with classes offered in a variety of prop and bodyweight options. Currently, Barry’s is offering a 28-day Social Fitness challenge.
The Sculpt Society
Megan Roup’s Sculpt Society is a dance cardio fitness method popularized by supermodels and celebs (fans include Elsa Hosk and Sofia Richie), with classes ranging from 5 to 50 minutes and most clocking in at around 35. Megan’s classes are easy enough to follow along with for non-dancers, sweaty, modifiable to always be prop-free and new sweaty routines are offered each week. During shelter-at-home orders, Megan is offering a two-week complimentary trial to new Sculpt Society members.
Tone It Up has been offering complimentary access to its robust fitness app during the pandemic. Workouts appear in the app, and range from HIIT and kickboxing to yoga sculpt and barre. Classes range in time commitment from a breezy 9-minute HIIT class to 35-minute yoga flows.
Throughout every new and notable fitness app launch, I always go back to Aaptiv. All-audio workouts, meditations, runs and recovery sessions led by a variety of talented instructors range from beginner to advanced and from short to marathon (marathon-training is in fact one programming option in the app). Workouts can be filtered by level of difficulty, instructor, music and a multitude of other options - making it super customizable. Currently, Aaptiv is offering 30-days of free membership to new subscribers.
The newest option on this list, Healthified Life’s dance-cardio classes are taught by current assistant coach and former captain of the Warriors Dance Team Amira Mourad. Offered a handful of times each week via Healthified.co, Amira’s classes are fast-moving, incorporate dance cardio and strength movements and are prop-free.