On days when you are forced to stay at home and also for those who always work from home and cannot go to a gym to do weights and train, applications and sites for managing workouts and following exercise sheets can be useful physicists that can be done at home even without tools. In an era where there is an app for everything, training from home has never been easier and you can perform gym, cardio, aerobic, stretchi exercises or even practice yoga.
Below, we see the best applications to use on Android and iPhone with tabs, videos and animations to train at home with personalized plans that do not require gym equipment and also some skills for Alexa, to be guided by voice from an Amazon Echo device .
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1) Nike Training Club, free for Android and iPhone is one of the most popular fitness apps, with many free workouts to strengthen muscles, to do yoga and to run. There are video guides for all the workouts, execution times, tips for improvement and then also personalized programs.
2) Sworkit, free for 7 days to download on Android and iPhone is an app that follows the training guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine and allows you to watch videos to follow the exercises with workouts ranging from 5 to 50 minutes . You can choose between strength training, breathing, stretching or yoga. All workouts can be done at home and at any time, without the need for gym equipment.
3) Daily Workout Apps is a series of specific applications, both for Android and for iPhone, which allow you to follow exercises to train different parts of the body. You can then download the apps for training the buttocks, abs, legs, arms, cardio workouts, yoga separately and they are almost all free. The apps contain home-made exercise programs, with videos shot by certified personal trainers.
4) Freeletics Training Coach, free for Android and iPhone has been designed to increase body strength and work on the abs. With an initial fitness test, the app creates a custom tailored workout. Through exercises they are guided by a video, they can be done at home at any time and allow everyone to stay fit and develop their muscles even without going to the gym.
5) 7 minutes workout, free for Android and iPhone, is the app to perform effective workouts in short periods of time, only 7 minutes. The workouts contain a mix of strength and cardio to maximize the effect of those seven minutes that will seem very long if done well.
The same authors of the Android app, Simple Design, also offer other free applications of specific workouts to do at home.
6) 5-minute workout, free for Android and iPhone is similar to the 7-minute app, even more concentrated for doing very fast bodyweight workouts to be repeated several times a day. The exercises are perfect for those who start a workout after a long period of standstill and for those with limited time, accompanied by 3D animations and precise instructions.
7) Exercises at home - Without equipment, free for Android and iPhone, it is the app to use for training at home as if you were in the gym, doing exercises that do not require the use of weights or other tools. The app offers video instructions, animations and training programs for the abs, chest, legs, arms and buttocks and the whole body, including warm-up and stretching exercises.
8) Fitify for Android is one of the best applications to follow workouts to do at home. The app provides tools to track workouts and videos ranging from yoga to HIIT Cardio training and to increase strength.
Note that Fitify Premium is free for 2 months in Italy due to the Coronavirus emergency.
9) JEFIT Workout Tracker, free for Android and iPhone is a bodybuilding app, to create workout plans in the gym (not really for home workouts). It provides a variety of tools such as the recovery and rest breaks timer, a body measurement log and a training program planner.
10) Push Ups Workout, free for Android, is the best app for doing gym at home in the sense of body building without tools, for doing push-ups and being followed by a card for the gym and training with weight lifting.
11) WORKIT, free for Android and iPhone is the combination of a training tracker and a strength training app. Various training routines can be created and progress can be monitored. As an app it is different from the others because it has no videos, but only figures, tables and text instructions.
12) SWEAT: Kayla Itsines Fitness, free for 7 days (then with subscription) on Android and iPhone is the fitness app for women only, with 28-minute training programs to be performed at home and designed to tone the muscles and have a perfect physique.
13) Pocket Yoga, costs 3 Euros for Android and iPhone (then without subscriptions) and is one of the best Yoga applications, with 27 different yoga sessions of varying duration and difficulty, more than 200 yoga poses shown on the screen with voice guides and visuals on how to do them.
Among the various Skills that can be activated, you can find the 7-minute, the 5-minute one, and other free-body training ones, for doing push-ups, squats or abs.
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Below, we see the best applications to use on Android and iPhone with tabs, videos and animations to train at home with personalized plans that do not require gym equipment and also some skills for Alexa, to be guided by voice from an Amazon Echo device .
READ ALSO: Best Apps for training, sports and fitness
1) Nike Training Club, free for Android and iPhone is one of the most popular fitness apps, with many free workouts to strengthen muscles, to do yoga and to run. There are video guides for all the workouts, execution times, tips for improvement and then also personalized programs.
2) Sworkit, free for 7 days to download on Android and iPhone is an app that follows the training guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine and allows you to watch videos to follow the exercises with workouts ranging from 5 to 50 minutes . You can choose between strength training, breathing, stretching or yoga. All workouts can be done at home and at any time, without the need for gym equipment.
3) Daily Workout Apps is a series of specific applications, both for Android and for iPhone, which allow you to follow exercises to train different parts of the body. You can then download the apps for training the buttocks, abs, legs, arms, cardio workouts, yoga separately and they are almost all free. The apps contain home-made exercise programs, with videos shot by certified personal trainers.
4) Freeletics Training Coach, free for Android and iPhone has been designed to increase body strength and work on the abs. With an initial fitness test, the app creates a custom tailored workout. Through exercises they are guided by a video, they can be done at home at any time and allow everyone to stay fit and develop their muscles even without going to the gym.
5) 7 minutes workout, free for Android and iPhone, is the app to perform effective workouts in short periods of time, only 7 minutes. The workouts contain a mix of strength and cardio to maximize the effect of those seven minutes that will seem very long if done well.
The same authors of the Android app, Simple Design, also offer other free applications of specific workouts to do at home.
6) 5-minute workout, free for Android and iPhone is similar to the 7-minute app, even more concentrated for doing very fast bodyweight workouts to be repeated several times a day. The exercises are perfect for those who start a workout after a long period of standstill and for those with limited time, accompanied by 3D animations and precise instructions.
7) Exercises at home - Without equipment, free for Android and iPhone, it is the app to use for training at home as if you were in the gym, doing exercises that do not require the use of weights or other tools. The app offers video instructions, animations and training programs for the abs, chest, legs, arms and buttocks and the whole body, including warm-up and stretching exercises.
8) Fitify for Android is one of the best applications to follow workouts to do at home. The app provides tools to track workouts and videos ranging from yoga to HIIT Cardio training and to increase strength.
Note that Fitify Premium is free for 2 months in Italy due to the Coronavirus emergency.
9) JEFIT Workout Tracker, free for Android and iPhone is a bodybuilding app, to create workout plans in the gym (not really for home workouts). It provides a variety of tools such as the recovery and rest breaks timer, a body measurement log and a training program planner.
10) Push Ups Workout, free for Android, is the best app for doing gym at home in the sense of body building without tools, for doing push-ups and being followed by a card for the gym and training with weight lifting.
11) WORKIT, free for Android and iPhone is the combination of a training tracker and a strength training app. Various training routines can be created and progress can be monitored. As an app it is different from the others because it has no videos, but only figures, tables and text instructions.
12) SWEAT: Kayla Itsines Fitness, free for 7 days (then with subscription) on Android and iPhone is the fitness app for women only, with 28-minute training programs to be performed at home and designed to tone the muscles and have a perfect physique.
13) Pocket Yoga, costs 3 Euros for Android and iPhone (then without subscriptions) and is one of the best Yoga applications, with 27 different yoga sessions of varying duration and difficulty, more than 200 yoga poses shown on the screen with voice guides and visuals on how to do them.
Alexa skills to follow workouts
If you want to use the Amazon Alexa voice assistant to be guided in workouts to do at home, you can install some skills using the Alexa app on your smartphone.Among the various Skills that can be activated, you can find the 7-minute, the 5-minute one, and other free-body training ones, for doing push-ups, squats or abs.
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