Best Guided Home Workout Apps (2020)

Download one of the apps on our list to your smartphone Best Guided Home Workout Apps (2020) and start or continue with a wild way of life. These are apps that will help you exercise at home (or wherever you are) and offer detailed instructions on how to get the most out of your workouts, even if you've only been used to going to the gym. We also compiled a list of the best weight loss apps for you some time ago, you can find them here.

PEAR Personal Fitness Coach

The PEAR app comes with a voice "personal trainer" and offers a wide range of guided workouts for different fitness levels that adapt to your performance. There are multiple workout packages and multiple trainers available, and the app also integrates well with various activity trackers or smart fitness devices, allowing you to track your performance and share metrics.

PEAR has a limited collection of free workouts available, but if you want to use the app to its full potential, then you'll want a premium subscription ($5.99 per month), which gives you unlimited access to the workout library and additional features.

Fitbit Coach

Fitbit is one of the best activity trackers on the market, so it's no wonder their exercise app makes the list Best Guided Home Workout Apps (2020). Fitbit Coach tracks your daily activities and recommends workouts and activities. These are dynamic workouts that adapt not only to what you've done, but also to your personal fitness goals and feedback. So if you tell the app that your workout was easy, it will prepare a harder challenge for you next time. The good news is that this app offers hundreds of routines, so we have no doubt that there will be a workout for you in between.

For premium services, you will have to pay US$7.99 per month or US$39.99 per year.

Workout Trainer

The Workout Trainer by Skimbl offers exercises and training programs for complete beginners as well as "veterans". Using a simple questionnaire to measure your physical fitness, the app will recommend exercises and workout plans to help you reach your goals. Notifications, reminders, and tracking a set of stats will help you stay focused, and you'll also have the option to hire your own personal trainer in the app. Here, too, there is a premium subscription ($6.99 per month) that offers more than 100 workouts, the ability to customize exercises, and other goodies, such as integration with an activity tracker.

Nike Training Club

Med Best Guided Home Workout Apps (2020) the Nike Training Club certainly belongs too, offering a large library of workouts with exercises targeting body parts or your fitness goals, as well as stretching exercises (from 15 to 45 minutes) of various intensities. Guided exercises allow you to focus on your goal, and there are exercises with full or lighter equipment and exercises where you only work with your own body weight. Personalized recommendations are based on your exercise choices, as they are derived from your activity. The premium service offers guided 4- to 6-week programs, nutrition and wellness guidance, and new exercise formats for users looking for different ways to get physically fit.

ASICS Studio

The team behind the Runkeeper app also created ASICS Studio, which gives users access to guided workouts. The app can help you achieve various fitness goals with workouts such as strength training or cardio guided by professional trainers and accompanied by motivational music. Videos and photos show the exercises, while the timer and sound make it easier to follow the pace of the exercise. You can also download workouts for offline use, and ASICS Studio integrates with the Health app to keep everything in one place.

The app has a free 14-day trial, after which you will need to subscribe to access it.

Shred

You might not be able to get to the gym like you used to, but that doesn't mean you have to stop training. The Shred app promises to serve up daily workout routines covering multiple training styles to keep you in shape even when you have to stay at home. Shred lets you choose from different types of workouts—fitness, bodyweight, cardio—that serve different workout routines that lead to your goals. The app features interactive visuals and logs activity so you can see your progress every day. There's even a Shred community that can give you extra motivation for your workouts.

A 7-day free trial allows you to get to know Shred and see if this approach to home exercise is right for you. You will then pay US$12.99 per month for your Shred membership.

Apple Fitness+

At the presentation of its sixth-generation smart watch, Apple also introduced the Apple Fitness+ application for Apple Watch owners, which will ensure that its owners (p)remain fit through a series of guided exercises from various categories. The content will be viewed via the application on iPhone (Activity app), iPad or Apple TV. The exercises are designed in such a way that you can easily follow them and that you only need a minimum of additional equipment (in most cases). Apple Watch will measure your workout length, calories burned, heart rate, etc. during your activity. You will also be able to check your statistics there, and of course it will also be available on other Apple smart devices. When you reach a new milestone, such as completing a set of exercises, an animation will appear to motivate you. You'll also be able to compare yourself to other people who have done the workout before you (Burn Bar), which will give you extra motivation, and there will also be a timer to see how much time you have left to do a certain interval.

The last app on our list Best Guided Home Workout Apps (2020), Fitness+, will be available for $9.99 per month for up to six family members. With the purchase of an Apple Watch series 3 or later, Apple will offer three months of free trials of the service. The application is not yet available, we expect it at the end of the year.