
There are free streaming exercise videos and apps you can try at home to pass the time and stay fit. Here are some of them:
EkhartYoga offers free meditation and yoga instructional videos to help people relax during anxious times. Esther Ekhart and fellow yoga instructors lead 30-minute yoga and movement videos to stretch the muscles and calm the mind.
Down Dog, an app for practicing yoga at home, is providing its Yoga, Yoga for Beginners, the ballet-inspired Barre, and 7 Minute workouts free until April 1.
“Due to the current outbreak, many people are avoiding gathering in large groups, including at yoga studios and other fitness spaces,’’ the website says. “We believe that stressful times like these are precisely when people need wellness practices the most.”
Obé, a home fitness company that offers live and on-demand classes, including cardio boxing, barre and yoga, has seen “thousands and thousands” of new sign-ups, according to Founders Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills. The site is offering new users a free month.
And, of course, there is the mother of all workout videos available on YouTube, Jane Fonda’s beginner to advanced workout videos from the early 1980s.
The tutorials feature the “Grace and Frankie” star and longtime fitness guru in bright leotards leading men and women in a series of stretches, jumping jacks and twists.
“You did a great job!” she tells one group. “Don’t you feel good? Bravo!”



