Sculpt and tone with these 10 BEST barre workouts at home! From beginner barre, to barre abs, to advanced cardio barre workouts — these 10 online barre classes build lean muscle and burn calories.
If you’ve tried any of my barre workouts, you know that I love to put my own upbeat spin on traditional barre exercises.
Whether you’re looking for a beginner barre workout or a more advanced cardio barre class, I’ve got you covered.
I’ve rounded up my TOP 10 Barre Workouts At Home!
There’s no dance, ballet or barre experience required.
You don’t need a fancy boutique studio, barre studio or ballet bar either.
Most of these free barre workouts require just your bodyweight and an optional set of light dumbbells, hand weights, or mini loop resistance band.
Benefits of Barre Workouts At Home
Build Muscle Endurance. Using bodyweight or lighter weights and higher repetitions is great for building muscle endurance, which will assist you in your other workouts (SELF Magazine).
Increase Balance, Flexibility, Posture and Range of Motion. Barre is known to strengthen and lengthen your muscles. This increases flexibility and range of motion, which will also carry over into other exercises and is essential to injury prevention.
Target the Abs, Core and Pelvic Floor. Barre workouts require constant core engagement. I always suggest barre workouts as a great pregnancy workout, as well as postpartum workout.
Tone Your Entire Body with a Low Impact Workout. Barre is kind on joints and great cross training for runners. Also a great way to raise your heart rate without jumping.
Avoid Fitness Plateaus. Mixing up your fitness routine with barre at home is a great way to avoid fitness and weight loss plateaus.
Added bonus, barre workouts are accessible to ALL fitness levels. You can easily modify and adapt barre exercises if you’re a beginner by using bodyweight only or decreasing range of motion.
On the other hand, you can ‘scale up’ or advance barre exercises by going into relevè (on your toes) or increasing the range of motion.
5 Common Barre Class Moves
If you’ve taken a pure barre, barre method, barre3, physic57 or any barre studio classes you may have tried these basic barre exercises.
First Position Squats or Ballerina Squats
Second Position or Plíe Pulses
Passé Lunges
Thigh Dancing
Arabesque Pulses
You’ll find all of these barre exercises and more in these full body, toning barre workouts at home.
The 10 BEST Barre Workouts At Home
Below you’ll find the most popular barre workouts sorted into three categories. Click the links below to jump to the barre workout that best suites you.
Description: This cardio barre workout is low impact but high intensity! You’ll get all the benefits of a heart-pumping cardio barre class without jumping or running.
Intensity: Beginner to moderate. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
Pregnancy and postpartum friendly (filmed when I was in my third trimester of pregnancy).
Workout Focus: Full body barre workout with an extra emphasis on the legs, thighs and butt.
Description: A full body, upbeat online barre class! Currently our most popular barre workout on Pinterest; with reviews like: “LOVED this combo! Heart pumping and muscles burning without needing 45+ minutes to make it happen! Awesome workout, I’ll be saving this to repeat regularly for quick morning movement!”
Intensity: Moderate, can be scaled to high intensity for more advanced fitness levels.
Pregnancy and postpartum friendly (filmed when I was in my second trimester of pregnancy).
Format: Photo and video demonstration of each barre exercise.
Equipment: Optional light weights.
Description: This beginner barre workout is a great low impact workouts. A barre workout I often suggest for beginners. Also a great prenatal barre workout as it’s gentle on the joints.
Intensity: Beginner.
Pregnancy and postpartum friendly (filmed when I was in my third trimester of pregnancy).
Workout Focus: Total body barre workout specifically designed as a prenatal barre class.
Description: This is a full body muscle-toning workout. A great introductory barre workout for the fitness enthusiast who typically enjoys strength and HIIT workouts.
Intensity: Moderate. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
Pregnancy and postpartum friendly.
Workout Focus: Full body, bodyweight barre workout.
Advanced Cardio Barre Workouts At Home
30 to 45 minute, advanced home workouts with goals to build muscle and cardiovascular endurance.
Description: This is a full body BURN. It’s a barre blend workout, combining traditional barre exercises like pulsing pliès with HIIT cardio bursts. Currently our most popular barre workout on YouTube!
Intensity: Moderate to advanced. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
Workout Focus: Full body barre workout (and legs on fire)!
Description: Strength, cardio, balance and core conditioning — this barre kickboxing workout truly does it all! It combines the benefits of barre, cardio kickboxing AND strength training in one 45-minute workout.
Intensity: Moderate to advanced. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
Description: This is my signature barre style, meaning that it’s an athletic barre workout! The tiny, pulsing movements of barre fire up every muscle group. Combined with larger, dynamic multi-muscle movements, you’ll get an effective sculpting and cardio barre workout at home.
Intensity: Moderate to advanced. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
Format: Photo and video demonstration of each bodyweight exercise.
Equipment: Bodyweight and chair for balance support.
Description: This workout is all about the legs and butt. Six bodyweight leg exercises to specifically target the glutes — aka a barre butt lift.
Intensity: Moderate.
Pregnancy and postpartum friendly.
Workout Focus: Glutes, legs, and butt.
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