Easy No-Equipment Workouts for Travel

Whether you’re traveling for work or for pleasure, leaving the comfort of your gym or exercise routine can make it more difficult to get your workouts in. Now, in my opinion, the best way to combine exploration of a new area and an easy-to-plan workout is to go out on a walk or hike. If hiking is more your style, AllTrails is an awesome tool to help you discover local trails! It shows a trail’s difficulty rating, elevation, comments from recent hikers, and pictures of the view you’re hiking to. 

Perhaps hiking isn’t an option, or maybe you’re wanting something that gets the heart pumping. There are loads of free resources that are easily accessible from one’s phone. First and foremost, I have included individual workouts that can be found on Youtube. This is a collection of some of my favorites! Whether we’re traveling or I’m trying to get in a workout over my lunch break, these are my go tos! All the original content creators are listed in the description— we love supporting female led channels!! If you like the style of the video, most of these fit gals have hundreds of other workouts to peruse. I have also included a few easy-to-navigate apps, with a wide array of no-equipment-needed workouts! 

YOUTUBE

PILATES

A nice little 15 min workout with a focus on thighs & cardio from Sarah’s day. Checkout these pilates-chic sets to keep you moving in style.

This is a short and sweet 8 minute workout from The Balanced Life Pilates. It can serve as a nice warm-up to a longer workout or perhaps a quick movement moment before you start your day. It’s part of a 30-day challenge if you’re looking to integrate a little bit of pilates into your exercise practice. 

This 15 minute workout from Blogilates will make exercisers of any pilates experience level feel like they’re crushing it. It has both beginner and moderate/advanced levels of exercises demonstrated. 

This 18 minute core focused pilates workout from Sarah’s Day is sure to challenge anyone and everyone’s core!

FULL BODY WORKOUTS

This 23 minute circuit workout by Sarah’s Day flies by! No equipment needed! 

This 30 minute workout from SELF is sure to get the heart rate up! 

This 30 minute workout from GrowingAnnanas is perfect if home-workouts sometimes get boring for you. Here you’ll be doing a different exercise every minute of the workout for a total of 30 different exercises. 

This 40 minute workout from Sydney Cummings has a focus on cardio and abs, but your whole body will be ready for a break when the clock strikes 0:00!

LEG & BUM WORKOUTS

This 30 minute workout by Sydney Cummings is a fantastic leg workout that had me sore for days after the first time I did it. While she does use some bands, but it’s certainly still doable if you don’t have any resistance bands! She does an awesome job of showing alternate movement patterns if her primary exercise doesn’t work for you. 

This workout from Fitness Blender comes in at just under 30 minutes, but you better be ready to WORK!! 

No pre-amble, no introduction, this 30 minute lower body workout from GrowingAnnanas will have you feeling. the. burn. 

YOGA

This 10 minute yoga stretch routine from Yoga with Kassandra is a perfect flow to start the day with. 

This nearly 24 minute yoga strength workout by Yoga with Adriene is challenging in a way that sneaks up on you! If you’re looking to get more consistent with your yoga practice, this video is part of a 30 day series. 

APPS

Nike Training Club

This free app features 251 no equipment needed workouts, ranging from 5 minutes to 60 minutes in duration. Users can sort the kind of workout they’re looking for by workout format, duration, intensity, and focus. 

FitOn

As you create your account on FitOn, it asks questions about your fitness goals, how often you workout, the kinds of workouts you enjoy, etc to curate a workout program for you. If you’re not in the mood for the programmed workout one day, you can tap over to the workouts tab and sort through hundreds of various options. This app provides more than just workouts as it embodies more of a fitness lifestyle approach as it includes recipes in the ‘Meals’ tab and a wide array of wellness articles under the ‘Advice’ section. There is a Pro upgrade available, but a wide array of content is available to free users!  

Fitbod

If real-time workout videos aren’t your thing and you like to crush a workout in your own way, this app is perfect! Every day a new workout is prepared and waiting for you. It will design a workout according to whatever equipment you have available— even if that is no equipment! Before you begin your workout, you can click on any given exercise to see a video of how it’s done if you’re a little unsure. If you’re previewing your workout and see something you either don’t think you can do or don’t want to do, you can easily replace it or delete it! 

Peloton

While this company is widely known for their high-end spin bikes, their app has a huge collection of no-bike-needed workouts. Their categories include strength, yoga, cardio, meditation, running, outdoor, cycling, stretching, tread bootcamp, bike bootcamp, and walking. The outdoor collection features audio-only instruction, so you can enjoy an instructor-led run in the beautiful outdoors. Peloton has an awesome collection of pilates and barre classes that can be found under the strength section. This is my current favorite app to use for working out— I just love the range of exercises to choose from. Individuals that have already taken the classes rate how difficult they perceived it to be on a 1-10 scale, so you can factor that in when considering how hard you want to hustle for this workout. This app does cost $12.99/month, BUT they always have a free trial of at least one month (sometimes more, depending on the time of year), so you can decide if it’s for you before fully committing.

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