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TECHNOLOGY A23
Wednesday 10 February
Squat, lunge, push-ups. 13 apps for fitness at home
KELLI KENNEDY In this April 14, 2015 photo, Christina Macchiarola demonstrates how she uses the Crunch Live you’ll burn. Fitness Blend-
Associated Press fitness app to work out in her apartment in New York. er also has built-in water
MIAMI (AP) — Don’t want breaks and a countdown
to fight traffic, travelling for Associated Press clock so you know exactly
work, can’t afford a $30 how many more seconds
barre class? Those excuses classes. The handy two- want a class just for the interval training) for every of grueling tricep dip kicks
for missing your workout no minute clip gives you a sweat factor or one that is fitness level with series that you’ll have to endure.
longer fly thanks to a host preview before you buy. more meditative for $18 a will challenge even the BeFit lets you work out with
of new fitness apps and on- Choose from about 20 dif- month. There’s even a col- most hardcore athletes. some of the biggest ce-
line subscriptions. ferent workout styles, with lection of classes that focus Celeb trainer Bob Harper’s lebrity trainers for free. The
There’s a website for your tons of classes under each on cultivating your intuition, subscription also includes a YouTube channel features
every cardio craving from category plus options to rebooting your brain and meal plan with daily reci- workouts by Jillian Michaels
Pilates to bootcamp, some join a live class or stream releasing stress at work. pes. The popular 7 minute and Denise Austin to yogis
taught by celeb train- one on-demand. WANT TO FOLLOW THE POP- workout challenge is basic like Kino MacGregor and
ers that you likely could IF YOU LOVE BARRE AND ULAR KIDS but gets the job done with Tara Stiles with tons of dif-
never book in person. Bo- YOGA: Sweat with Kayla has 12 exercises performed for ferent exercises to get you
nus: Many of the sites are At roughly $10 a month, amassed legions of loyal 30 seconds with 10 seconds bikini ready. BeFit also has
free or cost far less than a Barre3, inspired by ballet, #BBG girls (that’s bikini rest. The $3 app is based a free mobile series with
monthly gym fee. yoga and Pilates, offers the body guide) posting pho- on workouts that promote circuit workouts you per-
WANT IT GYM-STYLE: choice of 200 online class- to results and encourag- exercising for shorter, more fect for when you’re on the
Crunch Live includes es. Each workout tells what ing each other through intense bursts to achieve go.
many of the workouts that body parts you’re targeting the grueling 28-minute better results. The moves WANT TO TRAIN LIKE A CE-
earned the brand a de- and whether you’ll need sessions that include car- are broken down with vid- LEBRITY
voted following and have equipment like a chair, dio and strength training. eo, audio and text expla- Gwyneth Paltrow liked
been retired from their resistance bands or small The 24-year-old Austra- nations and include fun the results so much she
brick and mortar gyms. weights, and offers a short lian trainer, who recently features to unlock rewards went into business with her
Thankfully fans of gospel preview. launched her $20-a-month when you reach your goals. trainer Tracy Anderson.
house aerobics and ur- With 3,000 online classes app based on the 12-week WANT IT FOR FREE Her $90-a-month subscrip-
ban attitude dance class- that include everything Bikini Body Guide, is known Fitness Blender includes tion allows you to work out
es can get their sweat on from Hatha to Ashtanga, for her inspiring Instagram everything from high inten- with Anderson during a live
in these online classes for YogaGlo has something for pics and some killer squat, sity and fat loss workouts to weekly class along with a
$9.99 a month. They also first timers and advanced lung, box jump sequences. stretching and low-impact breakdown of the moves
offer more than 75 classes yogis. Choose from ses- Daily Burn — $12.95 a days. They even break it from a senior trainer plus a
including barre, yoga and sions based on time and month — includes every down for you with a handy dance cardio session and
strength training, in addi- difficulty rating. You can workout style imaginable difficulty rating and esti- a beginner class, which
tion to their killer cardio. also choose whether you (from kettlebells to yoga to mated number of calories are all updated weekly.
And yes, their popular Kelly Ripa has made no
belly, but and thigh boot- secret of her obsession
camp and ab attack are with Anna Kaiser’s dance
in there too. cardio workouts. Kaiser’s
LiveStreaming Fitness offers $50-a-month streaming se-
live workouts and even live ries offers 10-minute target-
cooking classes for about ed workouts that can be
$10 a month, including ev- pieced together to fit your
erything from yoga to kick- needs using everything
boxing to workouts per- from weights, resistance
formed at your desk. If you bands and physio balls.
can’t make a live class, the If you want to be part of
subscription includes a cat- Taylor Swift’s tribe, Ballet
alog of healthy recipes to Beautiful is a good place
revamp your takeout night to start. Creator and for-
and an extensive collec- mer New York City Ballet
tion of classes. dancer Mary Helen Bowers
EMG Live Fitness focuses offers a $40 monthly sub-
on specialty workouts like scription which includes
piloxing (that’s Pilates and over 100 workouts or the
boxing), plyojam, bosu chance to stream classes,
ball, Yollet (yoga and bal- like the ultimate supermod-
let) for just $2 a class or el workout, at your leisure
$20 a month for unlimited for around $13 each.q
