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10 Best Barre Workouts At Home

By: Lindsey Bomgren, CPT | May 17, 2023

Sculpt and tone with the 10 best barre workouts at home! From beginner barre to advanced cardio barre workouts, these 10 online barre classes build lean muscle and burn calories.

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Tone your entire body with these 10 barre workouts at home!

If you’ve tried one of my barre workouts, you know — there’s no burn like a barre burn.

Barre workouts are some of my most popular workouts on YouTube. In fact, Self recently named this 30-Minute Barre Blend Workout among the top three best barre workouts on YouTube!

Whether you’re looking for a pregnancy-friendly, beginner barre workout or a more advanced cardio barre class, I’ve got you covered and have rounded up my TOP 10 Barre Workouts At Home!

Most of these free barre workouts require just your bodyweight and an optional set of light dumbbells, hand weights, or mini loop resistance band. 

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These barre workouts were created by instructor Lindsey Bomgren, Certified Personal Trainer, Barre Certified and PROnatal Fitness Certified for Prenatal Training and Postnatal Training.

Barre Workouts At Home FAQs

What Is A Barre Workout?

Barre is a hybrid workout that combines ballet, pilates, yoga and strength training. It has an emphasis on building core strength and long, lean muscles throughout the body. My barre classes are a little different than Pure Barre or Physique 57. I like a high energy, athletic barre workout.

What Are The Benefits Of Barre Workouts At Home?

Barre workouts have many benefits! These workouts increase total body strength by building small, stabilizing muscles in the shoulders, glutes and hips to prevent injury. Barre increases balance, flexibility, posture and range of motion. They’re a great full body, low impact workout that can be adapted to any fitness level. It’s also good to mix up your fitness routine to avoid fitness and weight loss plateaus.

What Muscle Groups Do Barre Workouts Target?

These bodyweight workouts with high repetitions are great for building muscle endurance. Barre workouts require constant core engagement and also target the pelvic floor so I recommend adding them to your pregnancy or postpartum workout plan. It’s also good to mix up your fitness routine to avoid fitness and weight loss plateaus.

Below you’ll find the most popular barre workouts sorted into two categories, beginner and advanced.

Under each workout video you’ll find a workout description and equipment needed so you can easily find the barre workouts that best fit your needs.

5 Beginner Barre Workouts At Home

1. 10-Minute Barre Core (Mat Ab Workout)

  • Equipment: No Equipment, Bodyweight Only.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: This barre core workout requires some advanced ab exercises that I wouldn’t recommend for pregnancy. I’d sub these 8 Pregnancy Core Exercises.

2. 15-Minute Low Impact Cardio Barre

  • Equipment: No Equipment, Bodyweight Only.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: Yes! This barre format is low impact and includes tons of non-traditional (and pregnancy-safe) core engagement.

3. 15-Minute Barre Workout

  • Equipment: Optional light to medium dumbbells (2-5 lbs) or wrist weights.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: I recommend adding a counter or chair to assist with balance work, especially as your pregnancy progresses. Take the last move (push up and side plank) from your knees or from an incline.

4. 20-Minute Pregnancy Barre Workout (3rd Trimester)

  • Equipment: No Equipment, Bodyweight Only. Option to add a set of light dumbbells (3-5 lbs) for an extra challenge. You also can add a stable surface (like a chair or countertop) for extra balance support.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: Yes! Challenging and safe low impact barre workout for beginners and pregnancy-friendly.

5. 25-Minute Prenatal Barre Workout

  • Equipment: No Equipment, Bodyweight Only.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: Yes! Great option to strengthen your core and pelvic floor, and safely get your heart rate up.
5 Barre Workouts to Strengthen and Tone!

5 Advanced Barre Workouts At Home

1. 20-Minute Cardio Barre Class At Home 

  • Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: I did film this workout while pregnant, but it is advanced! Modify as needed or try this 20-Minute Pregnancy Barre Workout instead.

2. 30-Minute Power Barre Workout

  • Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: This one is pretty intense, with lots of core engagement and twisting. Sub our 25-Minute Prenatal Barre Workout for a pregnancy-friendly option.

3. 30-Minute Barre Blend Workout

  • Equipment: Optional light dumbbells and mini loop resistance band.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: Slow it down, move at your pace and add an incline to all plank/core exercises by placing your hands on a chair or bench OR sub these 8 Pregnancy Core Exercises for the core work.

4. 30-Minute Barre Workout

  • Equipment: None, just your bodyweight. We’ll use a chair (or counter top — whatever you have available) for a few of the moves.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: Modify the initial plank sequence and make the cardio intervals low impact or sub our 25-Minute Prenatal Barre Workout.

5. 45-Minute Barre Cardio Kickboxing Class

  • Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
  • Pregnancy Friendly: This one is pretty intense, with lots of core engagement and twisting. Sub our 25-Minute Prenatal Barre Workout for a pregnancy-friendly option.

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