Sport at home: we tested 5 free applications

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Three free applications to play sports without equipment and … without going out

Take advantage of this containment period to cut an athlete silhouette using these applications for Android and iPhone offering physical exercises based on your body weight and easy to perform at home.

Containment imposed on everyone can prove for some more difficult to live than for other. Seeing its limited outings at one hour a day can indeed weigh on morale, all the more for those accustomed to a more or less regular sporting practice.

To live this confinement as best as possible, why not try to do some sports at home ? Many applications offer physical exercises to be done without leaving your home, and without necessarily having equipment. By simply using your body weight, and varying the exercises, you can stretch the members and make certain muscles work whose existence you had forgotten.
Discover three free applications to play sports without leaving your home and without equipment.

1. Freeletics

In terms of home sports and without material, Freeletics is a reference. Born in 2013, the application offers physical exercises to do at home and based exclusively on your body weight.

Contrary to what one might think, if the application offers a paid premium version for training with personalized coaching, it can be used without a scholarship.
In its free version, Freeletics does not offer a followed work plan. You will therefore need to be autonomy and determination since you will have to manage your training sessions alone.

After configuring your profile and objective, Freeletics offers many predefined exercise sessions, called workout, and accessible at the top of the interface from the Explorer tab.

These sessions can be filtered according to your level, duration of exercise or the part of the body you want to work. The duration and difficulty of each are also indicated. For each exercise that makes up a training session, Freeletics offers to watch a short video to help you understand the movements to perform. You just have to throw yourself headlong by triggering training via the Start button to start the session.

Throughout your session, the time scrolls, with in the background, the video of the exercise to be performed. When you have finished your rehearsals, tap the screen to go to the following exercise. Freeletics will leave you some recovery periods to help you catch your breath.

• Download Freeletics Sports Coach for Android(Free)
• Download Freeletics Sports Coach for iPhone(Free)

2. Adidas Training

Acquired in 2015 by Adidas, the Galaxy of Runtastic Applications now proudly features the name of the brand with three bands. Runtastic Training has become Adidas Training, and offers, more or less, a training method similar to that of Freeletics.

The application incorporates a premium paid offer (3 months offered at a time when we write these lines) for those who wish to have coaching and a personalized training plan. But, again, it is quite possible to take advantage of the different physical exercises offered for free. This need to go directly to the training tab where you will find suggested sessions meeting specific themes (less than 15 minutes, boost your metabolism, with family, etc.)).

But you can create your own training program since the application allows access to around thirty selections of exercises for all levels, as well as 190 exercises explained in video. Each of them indicates the parts of the worked body as well as the level of difficulty, and in the case of training, the duration of the session. It only remains to launch the session to trigger the stopwatch and chain the recovery exercises and periods.

• Download Adidas Training for Android(Free)
• Download Adidas Training for iPhone(Free)

3. Nike training

Another tenor in the field, the Nike Training application offers many training sessions and physical exercises for all and for all conditions.
Unlike competition that offers a premium paid offer, Nike Training is completely free. No personalized program or coach will be billed to you. You will not find, either, banners of pubs scattered here and there.

Nike opted for another much clearer option: Integrate a tab allowing access to your clothing and sports equipment shop directly in its application. A wise choice since users can explore the store and pay for their purchases without leaving the application.

But let’s go back to the main, training. They are accessible from the tab appearing a stopwatch and will offer on the home page of suggestions likely to interest you.
You can also browse the sessions according to the muscle groups to work, the favorite type of training, or the equipment (even basic) that you have.
Nike Training leaves the choice to the user. The application also offers thematic sessions (boost your morale, big training for small spaces, in shape in less than 20 minutes, etc.) If you lack inspiration.

All the exercises offered are also detailed on video to help you make the right gestures and adopt the right postures. You can even enjoy a personalized program, meeting your physical conditions, your objectives and your availability, established over several weeks to achieve a specific goal. Add to this the possibility of including your running sessions from the Nike Run Club app, and you get one of the most complete free applications.

• Download Nike Training for Android(Free)
• Download Nike Training for iPhone(Free)

Sport at home: we tested 5 free applications

In this containment period, there is no question of doing collective sports outside. However, you can practice physical activity in your living room. It is even essential and apps motivate you and help you.

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The best applications to play at home in 2022

Want to get back to sports at home ? Several mobile applications for iPhone and Android smartphones can help you and accompany you to reach this noble goal without even getting out of your home ! Here is a selection.

With the return of sunny days, many those who want to (re) put in sport. Go hop, it’s time to treat health and cardio, take out the floor mat and get back to sports at home. And no need to go to a club or start a private coach … You can use one of the applications we recommend here. These sports applications are often free, with paid games to go even further.

Perfect for the Sunday sportsman who lies dormant in each of us.

The best sports applications in 2022

On the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store, there are more and more home sports applications that will help you keep in shape and allow you to follow your performance while motivating yourself. If these kinds of exercises are not enough for you, also take a look at our guide best applications to accompany you when you run.

Otherwise, here you are in the right place to discover our selection of the best sports applications:

• Nike Training Club (NTC)
• Freeletics
• 30 days Fitness Challenge
• 7 minutes workout
• Fitness & bodybuilding

Nike Training Club: the reference

The first sporting solution that we could cite is undoubtedly Nike Training Club (NTC), A very good quality fitness platform. It must be said that Nike has nothing more to prove in the field. The Nike Training Club sports application offers a good hundred programs. And each exercise is certified by professional coaches.

Whether you are a confirmed athlete or a whole new convert to fitness, NTC will be able to offer you exercises adapted to your level and the exercise recommendations also adapt to your profile. Activities cover the strengthening of certain targeted parts of the body to more advanced training oriented on boxing, yoga or endurance.

By opting for the sporting events that suit you the most, with or without equipment, timed or not, from 15 to 45 minutes, you can enjoy a fitness adapted to your needs. Big bonus: NTC is a sports application compatible with chromecast to display video exercises on your TV.

Nike Training Club

Freeletics: Fitness Workouts, Treat the body and the agenda

In the same genre, we find Freeletics, A sports application whose primary obsession, in addition to your fitness, is not to disturb your agenda. Because after all, the lack of time often represents the first excuse given not to do any exercise, even for those who do telework. You can then launch sessions of only 5 minutes in the densest days or indulge in it for 30 minutes.

Train at home or outside, whether it is simply to stay in shape, to build muscle or outright to lose weight. You will need almost nothing to perform these exercises, with the exception maybe a traction bar. These movements can also be carried out in reduced spaces; Ideal for a small apartment. Very damn, the sports application offers a lot of free content (simple activities or complete programs), and demonstration videos are available for each exercise so that a coach shows you how to do.

Freeletics Fitness Workouts

30 days Fitness Challenge and 7 minutes Workout: the daily challenge

We also advise you to look at the side of 30 days Fitness Challenge or 7 minutes workout. The two share very similar interfaces with animated patterns indicating you the right movements to be made, just as didactic videos and different programs depending on what you want to do: train the whole body or focus the effort on a specific part.

As its name suggests, 30 days Fitness Challenge will challenge you to do all the sporting exercises recommended for a full month, while 7 minutes workout promises to take you only 7 minutes a day for intensive exercises, but not time -consuming. In both cases, the difficulty rises crescendo over the sessions. Sport is also to face these kinds of challenges.

30 days Fitness Challenge

7 minutes workout

Fitness & bodybuilding: thoroughly biceps

Fitness & bodybuilding, like all other sports applications present in this guide, offers complete programs to get back in shape. It differs by going a little further and by proposing support in muscle development.

The idea of ​​this application is to guide you step by step, like a coach, in the ” sculpture »From your body. Super well drawn abdominals, developed arms … You will sometimes need particular equipment – dumbbells for example – for your exercise, but you will take advantage of clear instructions and precious help not to put your body in danger. Doing sports is good, playing sports without hurting yourself, it’s much better.

Accompanied by an accessory

To better follow your progress during your sports sessions, turn to accessories dedicated to sports, such as a tracker activity. They will allow you to follow the evolution of your heart rate, but also to follow your activity closely, from simple daily walking during your journey to work or other more intense exercises. Note that a connected watch also offers similar features. There are also watches specially dedicated to sport.

And as playing sports is always nicer in music, why not also couple it all with headphones designed for sport and an audio streaming service.

Here you are ready for your connected sports sessions.

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