Fitness Programs

VIRTUAL EXERCISE RESOURCES

Physical fitness is important for wellness and wellbeing. During the pandemic when fitness facilities are closed, there are many free and low-cost virtual offerings available, please see the resources below. To view this information as a PDF, click here.

Free and Low-Cost Virtual Exercise Resources:

Down Dog Yoga offers all of its subscription apps (Down Dog, Yoga for Beginners, HIIT, Barre, and 7 Minute Workout) free for healthcare workers: https://www.downdogapp.com/healthcare

CorePower Yoga offers free videos and hundreds of yoga, sculpt and meditation classes (free 7-day trial): https://www.corepoweryogaondemand.com/keep-up-your-practice

The Peleton app includes thousands of on-demand classes (free 30-day trial): https://www.onepeloton.com/app

Nike Training Club’s premium app offers 200+ free streaming workout videos: https://www.nike.com/ntc-app

Energy Medicine for Heroes offers free wellness classes for healthcare workers: https://www.purestrength.nyc/

Daily Burn's at-home classes includes thousands of workout videos (free 30-day trial): https://portal.dailyburn.com/?property=at_home

EXOS offers free breathing practice, yoga, bodyweight and strength workouts: https://www.exosathome.com/

Gold’s Gym offers free bodyweight, HIIT and core strength videos: https://goldsgymanywhere.intelivideo.com/categories

Planet Fitness hosts free live and on-demand workouts: https://www.planetfitness.com/united-we-move

YMCA is offering free live and on-demand virtual workouts: https://ymcanyc.org/ymca-home

Free YouTube Exercise Channels:

National Institute on Aging’s Go4Life exercise playlist includes videos for older adults: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmk21KJuZUM4HTrJ7hrJ8yxhToKkJT8a8

Walk at Home by Leslie Sansone includes strength and walking workouts: https://www.youtube.com/c/LeslieSansonesWalkatHome/featured

BodyFit by Amy offers 200+ low impact to advanced workouts: https://www.youtube.com/c/BodyFitByAmy/featured

FitnessBlender offers over 500 full length workout from home videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/fitnessblender/featured

Orangetheory Fitness, an interval fitness concept, offers at-home workouts: https://www.youtube.com/c/orangetheory/videos

POPSUGAR Fitness hosts multiple fitness tutorials, workouts and exercises: https://www.youtube.com/c/POPSUGARFitness/featured

Other Fitness Opportunities

Montefiore Mile

Grab a colleague and walk the Montefiore Mile during lunch, break or even after work. Monte-Mile signs can be found around the Einstein, Moses and Wakefield Campuses. Click HERE for Montefiore Mile Map.

If your campus doesn’t have a Monte Mile map way, don’t worry!

Walk 20 short New York City blocks**
Walk about 6 long blocks***
Walk about 2,000 steps (keep track with a pedometer, Fitbit or health app on your phone)

** "Short blocks" are along avenues, going roughly north-south, from one (numbered) street to the next.
*** "Long blocks” are along streets and typically avenues going east-west.

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