At-home exercise has evolved since Jane Fonda’s workouts took the world by storm (which, frankly, still hold up). Nowadays there are yoga and pilates classes, living-room-friendly workouts, and free apps to lead you around the park. Here’s a running list of what we’ve found in Melbourne.
• Universal Practice at Home is an online platform with unlimited access to more than 70 classes by the Melbourne-based pilates and physiotherapy studio – including pilates, strength training, yoga and meditation – for $49 per month.
• Recently opened personal training studio Frame in Cremorne is now offering six virtual classes a day. It’s $10 for one, or $35 for unlimited sessions. Find the timetable here.
• Yoga studio Humming Puppy (which has studios in Melbourne, Sydney and New York) is offering unlimited access to its suite of pre-recorded classes for 50 cents a day (plus its offering a handful of freebies). You’ll hear a low frequency hum in all the videos, which the team believes enhances the yoga experience.
• Access more than 200 barre, pilates and yoga classes on demand courtesy of fitness studio Barre Body. Start with a five-day free trial; membership starts from $15 per month. Barre Body is also running two live classes a day on Instagram and Facebook.
• Good Vibes Yoga, which has studios in Collingwood and Northcote, has set up an online hub where you can access short flow classes and meditations for free.
• Melbourne-based yoga teacher Annie Belcher shares downloadable audio classes for free on her website and has a special Yoga at Home class.
• Retrosweat is live-streaming ’80s-style aerobics on its Instagram account.
• Armadale yoga studio Happy Melon is running live classes online each week. Choose from yoga, meditation, fitness or Pilates from $5 to $10 per class, or buying bulk for a discount. There are also weekly and monthly passes – prices vary but right now you can get six weeks of unlimited classes for $100.
• Fitzroy’s Good Times Pilates has gone fully online, live-streaming classes (book here), and offering more on demand.
• Nike has a range of free workouts, training programs, fitness tips and nutritional guidance available online. Its free apps include the Nike Running Club, Nike Training Club, and a podcast called Trained, featuring conversations with trainers and athletes.
• Couch to 5K isn’t strictly for indoors, but the nine-week, app-led running program can definitely be done solo.
• Melbourne-based Sue Everett offers one-on-one yoga sessions via Skype for $30 per 15 minutes. Book online.
• Online yoga platform Will takes a modern approach to this ancient practice with easy-to-follow, downloadable classes. It’s $197 for lifetime access to its online library.
• Australian fitness instructor Damon Bell is now based in New York, but you can access his minimal-equipment workout videos for free on Instagram.
• Fluidform Pilates has an at-home program with targeted pre-recorded workouts for all levels of fitness. It’s $49 per month and the first monthly payment includes a free equipment pack.
• A Melbourne couple created the Callie fitness kit ($75), which is designed to help you replicate a gym workout at home. There’s also a guided online workout you can do called Quarantine With Callie.
• I Am That is a newly launched virtual yoga studio offering a variety of live and pre-recorded yoga and meditation classes online. It’s $9 a week to take part, or free for those who can’t afford it due to the current crisis – just email hello@iamthat-yoga.com for a discount code.
• Power Living has an online platform, Yogaholics, offering yoga and meditation classes, each ranging from five to 90 minutes in length, for $12 a month.
• St Kilda's Ihana Yoga has launched a virtual studio streaming up to five classes live per day. It's $1 for a two-week trial.
• Access unlimited livestream and 300-plus recorded classes by Richmond’s Jessica Dewar Yoga from $14.95 a week.
• Kyneton’s Pilates by Bec offers live online classes in pilates and general fitness. The equipment you’ll need to bring? Canned food for weights from your iso stockpile. Prices range from $9 for a 45-minute group fitness class (or $60 for 10 classes), or $35 for a private class.
• Download the immersive Zombies, Run! app for a running game slash audio adventure. The free, 10-episode home workout series will have you running from a (pretend) zombie apocalypse. Needless to say, this one's best suited to outdoors.
• South Yarra spin studio Bodhi & Ride is uploading three or four different cycle videos weekly, plus meditation classes, mindset coaching and nutrition seminars. It’s $49 a week for a minimum of four weeks, and you’ll need hire or buy a spin bike (home delivery is available).
• Upstate Studios is now live-streaming more than 70 classes a week, including HIIT, pilates and yoga. New members can access them for $49 a month. Plus, there are live, daily, guided meditations on Facebook and Instagram.
• California-inspired pilates studio Love Athletica, known for remixing the typical reformer style, is offering unlimited live and on-demand classes for $60 for six weeks during lockdown 2.0. Hire a reformer for $120 a week and sign up here.
• Melbourne’s Arise Studio Health, dedicated to pilates, yoga and wellness, is running unlimited classes for $25 a week. Purchase a cork roller or massage ball for added strengthening and stretching.
• With a different line-up of Melbourne-based yogis each day, online yoga platform Vinny (short for vinyasa) is offering free 15- to 20-minute classes each morning and afternoon. And you can watch them back here.
• From ex-Bachelor star and personal trainer Sam Wood, this 28 app has wellbeing, nutrition and fitness tips, workouts, recipes and more. Monthly membership is $58.99.
• Australian dance company Chunky Move turns 25 this year. Its dance studio is offering Beginners, Open Contemporary, 50+ classes and more online.
• Prahran’s Sum of Us has launched a virtual wellness studio with live and pre-recorded classes. Classes include physio-led pilates, yoga, meditation, HIIT, barre and more, alongside lifestyle sessions with experts. Get access to 40 live classes and unlimited pre-recorded classes for $25 per week. Individual classes are $9.
