Best FREE Online Workouts to Motivate You

Since our mental health is connected to our physical well-being, these FREE online and video workouts will help motivate you to stay in shape whether or not you are avoiding the gym.

 

Televised workouts have been around since the 1950s, when The Jack LaLanne Show first began on a local morning TV show in San Francisco.

 

Jane Fonda, another pioneer in exercise, released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda’s Workout, in 1982 on VHS.  Remember VHS?  Many of her workouts are now available on DVD, which is not quite as prehistoric as VHS.

 

Fast forward to today, when we are more likely to use apps on our phone or watch YouTube videos for fitness motivation and guidance.

 

Here are the best FREE video workouts to try.  Some can be upgraded to fee-based customizable workouts.

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Best Free Workout  Videos and Streams

YMCA 360

YMCA 360 is an on-demand video platform with a wide variety of classes, including bootcamp, belly dancing, barre, chair yoga, weightlifting, tai chi and more. 

Whether you are at home or on the road, take the Y with you with your favorite classes, instructors and more.

No membership to any Y in the USA is required. 

The videos are open to anyone for FREE, although that could change in the future.

Planet Fitness

The national gym chain – which is a major sponsor of the annual NYC New Year’s Eve celebration and Ball Drop event – has launched Home Work-Ins.

The online workouts are being livestreamed via Facebook Live, currently FREE, although that may change in the future. 

Get moving with their trainers and even some surprise celebrity guests each evening at 7pm for a 20 minute workout that is stretching one day, weightlifting another, etc. 

Many of the videos are available for days or even weeks after the livestream.

FitOn

FitOn offers a variety of FREE unlimited classes on demand, including yoga, cardio and strength training, along with some live classes.  

There’s also a 10-day  challenge to motivate you further to reach your fitness goals.

MadFit

This popular YouTube channel offers everything from quick three-minute workouts to tone abs to 30-minute full body routines with weights and bands.

Pop Sugar Fitness

Among other things, this YouTube channel offers 30 minute at home kick boxing workout, Zumba workouts, even Hip Hop dance workouts and low-impact aerobics.

Heather Robertson’s YouTube channel

Choose from a free 12-week workout plan with a full length workout video five days a week for 12 weeks, or individual workouts that range from around 10 minutes to around 45..

Yoga with Adriene’s YouTube channel

This popular instructor has more than eight million subscribers. Videos range from around three minutes to around 45 minutes, for all types of yoga at all levels. 

You can focus on practices that to  help with back pain, yoga for beginners, yoga for inner peace and much more.

Cosmic Kids Yoga

These are fun yoga videos for the younger members of the family, although the longer ones – 30-45 minutes – require more attention span than many young children possess..

Sydney Cummings’ YouTue channel

You might not want to be awake and exercising at 5am, a new workout video is livestreamed every morning.  Luckily, they are available on demand on her YouTube channel. 

The workouts include cardio, abs, legs, full body and more.

Best Video Workouts That Are Not Free

Fitness Blender  – This website offers hundreds of workout videos, many multi-week programs at 14.99 each.