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The Best At-Home Workouts for HITT, Yoga and Strength Training

Looking for some inspiration for at-home workouts to kickstart your exercise goals for 2024?

Discover our favourite HITT, yoga and strength training exercises, available both as online videos and app-based content, so you can make working out at home not only more enjoyable but actually effective too.

From beginner’s yoga classes to quick-fire circuit training, these are our top picks for the best at-home workouts for toning, strengthening and stretching your body in January and beyond.


For beginner’s yoga: Yoga with Adriene

If you want to start your yoga journey, no one makes it easier than Adriene Mishler. With her thirty day yoga challenges keeping you inspired for the month it takes to make something a habit, you’ll also find a little bit of everything you need from your practice within her videos. That includes calming mindfulness, breathing techniques, and easy-to-follow poses that target every inch of your body, with flows for morning and afternoon too.


For quick-fire HIIT: Caroline’s Circuits

A personal trainer with over 20 years of experience, Caroline Idiens is serious about helping women get into shape – specifically without burning themselves out in the process. She offers some seriously top-tier Zoom-based group exercise classes via her website, focusing on resistance exercises that not only help you tone up and build muscle, but which can help with sleep, coordination and stress as well. What’s more, she does it all in 30-minutes or less. The full body sculpt above is a great insight into her approach.


For Pilates: Bondi Rise

Whether you can get to the company’s beautiful sunrise pink studio situated by Hampton Court Station for reformer Pilates, or aim to exercise in your own living room, Bondi Rise provides a modern, results-driven approach to Pilates you’ll fall in love with. For the latter, the online platform makes exercising any time, any place, easy – with options for pilates, barre and yoga that encourage you to tick off five targeted sessions a week. There’s even a tailored bridal plan, specifically designed to help you feel your best on your big day.


For core strength: Louisa Drake

The Louisa Drake Method is all about getting your body moving in the way that feels best for you, and with the Virtual Studio membership you can access not only 100 online workouts – with a new one released weekly – but also live-class recordings where all of the teachers are trained to push you enough and correct your form so you can actually get results that mirror what you can achieve in person. This sculpting workout from Louisa on YouTube is a great taster for those wanting to define their abs.


For burning fat: Lucy Wyndham-Read

Founder of the UK’s most popular fitness channel, Lucy Wyndham-Read has over two million subscribers on YouTube and completing even one of her online workout videos will quickly show you why. With serious fat-busting potential, the aim is to complete each demonstrated exercise for 60 seconds, followed by a ten second recovery, so you’ll barely have time to notice how hard you are working. No wonder her seven-minute ab workout is the most-liked fitness video on YouTube.


For pregnancy-safe yoga: Glo.com

Working out when pregnant can be a little nerve-racking, especially at-home where you don’t necessarily have the oversight of a dedicated trainer. Glo.com offers a solution that will help you stay strong with confidence, due to its personalised classes for pregnancy. Then, post-partum you can spread your (yoga) wings even further with 16 different styles to choose from, plus meditation practices, to keep your workouts feeling fresh.

For boxing: Fight Camp

Boxing can provide the ultimate endorphin rush, as well as providing some seriously impressive toning for your arms and stomach. Luckily you don’t have to set foot in a boxing ring (or even own gloves) to feel the benefits as boxing is a particularly fast-growing category for at-home workouts. Fight Camp is actually first-and-foremost an equipment and apparel brand, but its videos on technique and fast-yet-effective workouts are still some of the best.


For dance workouts: Grow with Jo

Finding the motivation to workout at-home can sometimes be difficult, which is where the truly joy-inspiring videos from Grow with Jo come in. From low-impact walking workouts to help you get your steps in when working-from-home, as well as easy-to-follow dance workouts that don’t even feel like exercise, if you are on the search for exercise routines that also boost your mood, her channel is the place to start right now.


For post-workout stretching: Well+Good

Just because you are at home doesn’t mean you should forget about a good warm-down – your body will truly thank you for it tomorrow. Well+Good has a particularly vast selection of online videos to help you with stretching inspiration, turning it into something that feels easy and effective, rather than an additional chore. That includes how to soothe tight, sore muscles and the best ways to address neck and shoulder tension, with no equipment necessary.

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