Home Workouts: These Are the Top Three Fitness Apps

Whether strength training, full-body workouts or relaxing yoga: Anyone who has previously gone to the gym for a regular workout now has to look around for alternatives.

In the following, we therefore present recommended fitness apps for Android and iOS smartphones with which you can easily move your training home.

1. Nike Training Club: Best Free App

The “Nike Training Club” app is perfect for training at home: more than 200 workouts, each between 15 and 60 minutes long, are presented here by a coach in professional video sessions. With a range of topics from endurance, flexibility, strength or yoga, there should be something for everyone. The videos can be conveniently streamed to the large living room TV.

You can plan the weeks individually with various training plans. If you wish, the app reminds you of individual units via push messages. The Nike Training Club app is offered completely free of charge – expensive in-app purchases are not part of the program. Impressive!

• Scope of application: Endurance, strength, muscle building, fat loss, flexibility, speed, stress reduction, dance, fitness, HIIT, weight training, yoga.
• Target group: simply all.
• Difficulty level: from beginners to advanced.

2. Freeletics: fitness, nutrition and mindset coach

The Freeletics Training Bodyweight & Motivation app, which creates an individual training plan for you, also has many fans. Plus point: Many exercises can only be performed with your own body weight – so you don’t need any dumbbells or other home gym equipment. The free version of the app already provides you with an extensive range of exercises for the various muscle groups and should therefore be sufficient for the average user. With the premium version you get more intensive coaching including audio motivation, a nutrition plan and other additional features.

• Scope of application: Strength, endurance, muscle building, fat loss, HIIT, bodyweight, gym, running, mindset coach.
• Target group: Advanced users who want to make their training flexible and varied.
• Difficulty level: Hobby athletes with a bit of experience and bite, the challenges are diverse thanks to exciting training journeys.
• Pro membership price: 3 months: Training & Nutrition from currently 2.91 € per week (billed per quarter) and only training from 1.88 €, 6 months: Training & Nutrition from 2.42 € / week and only training from 1.62 € , 12 months: Training & Nutrition from 1.61 € and only training from 1.07 € per week. In other words: The Freeletics Training Coach is available from 4.32 to 11.32 € per month and can be tested for two weeks without obligation.

3. Down Dog Yoga: Yoga Exercises and Meditation Techniques

If you take it a little easier and prefer relaxed yoga exercises and meditation instead of sweaty strength training, you should take a look at the Down Dog Yoga app. Down Dog Yoga contains over 60,000 different configurations – for beginners to experienced. Choose from the styles vinyasa, hatha, gentle yoga, yin yoga, ashtanga, yoga on the chair or practice different sun salutations.

• Target group: everyone who wants to practice yoga at home according to their time limit and focus.

• Difficulty level: from beginners to experienced.

• Membership price: € 10.99 per month or € 65.99 per year. The first three sessions are free for testing.

Even more fitness apps in the test

Further details and even more fitness apps for optimal training at home can be found on our partner portal Fit for Fun.