The benefits? Beyond avoiding the winter weather, these apps can offer access to world-class trainers, as well as personalised programs, and a diverse range of sessions – from restorative yoga to energising HIIT workouts. Many include integrated tracking, ensuring you monitor your progress, while others foster community connections, keeping motivation high even when the weather isn’t.
Whether your goal is sculpting strength, enhancing flexibility, or simply finding a moment of zen amidst the mayhem, these apps can ensure you stay on track.
Centr
Developed by actor Chris Hemsworth, Centr offers a comprehensive library of strength training, HIIT, and cardio sessions, catering to various fitness levels. With 1000+ recipes and expert-led meditations, it offers a well-rounded approach to levelling up your wellness.
FIIT
With 3m downloads since it launched in 2017, the Fiit app has one of the widest mixes of workouts, with 2000+ classes to choose from, including yoga, Pilates, strength, and cardio, all led by top personal trainers. Perfect if you often get bored with your fitness routine.
Zwift
If you’re a two-wheeled fitness enthusiast, but the dark wet nights are putting you off, Zwift offers a great immersive cycling workout. Simply mount your outdoor bike to their indoor device and jump into a range of virtual worlds, from roads to epic climbs. Part video game, part workout, they have a strong community on their regular virtual group rides.
Asana Rebel
A great hybrid of high-intensity training and yoga for those who want the best of both worlds, there are sections covering nutrition, meditation and sleep, plus tailored challenges to join to help you keep your goals on track.
Pocket Yoga
A lovely, animated app experience with a pose library to help those looking to work on specific, authentic poses. Accessible for all levels of yoga experience, we like its soothing audio guide and relaxing music. An effective way of learning or deepening your yoga practice.
Glo
Glo offers 25 styles of fitness, from barre to breath work (there are 15 types of yoga alone!). With 9000+ classes on-demand and fresh content released daily, you’ll never tire of trying out a new workout each day of the year.
Daily Yoga
A great, accessible yoga practice app with chair yoga practices for those with limited mobility and easy, visual goal setting plans to follow to help you stay on track. Hands down, this is the most inclusive fitness app we’ve seen, with sections on yoga for pain relief, lying down poses and mobility.
Peloton
Not all about the bike, the Peloton app includes a huge range of trainer-led classes including strength, barre, Pilates and yoga with the same fun, infectious up-tempo vibe of their renowned spin sessions.
Apple Fitness+
You’ll probably have this app lurking in your phone right now If you haven’t yet tapped into its library of workouts, there’s plenty to get your heart rate up, from HIIT to guided runs, with real-time metrics to help you track your progress.
Alo Moves
Alo Moves’ comprehensive roster of instructors means there’s a teaching style to suit everyone. If you’re looking for a hype man to get you through those reps or a calming voice for your guided meditation, there’s a vast library of classes and experienced trainers to welcome you on the mat.
Sweat
Founded by trainer Kayla Itsines, Sweat features 13000 workouts over 45 tailor programmes. Join the active community to help keep your morale high and stay inspired with recipes to keep you fuelled.
Future
An individualised approach, Future offers personalised training plans by connecting its users to coaches online who can create customised workouts, tailored to your fitness level, the type of workouts you actually enjoy and what is actually achievable within your lifestyle.
