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.

No matter what your level of experience is, I have a barre workout that is right for you. If you are just starting out, I have a beginner barre class that will be perfect for you. If you are looking for a more challenging workout, I have a cardio barre class that will give you the workout you are looking for.

I’ve rounded up my TOP 10 Barre Workouts At Home!

There’s no dance, ballet or barre experience required.

You can do barre workouts at home with little to no equipment. You don't need a lot of equipment or a fancy studio to do barre workouts. You can do them at home with just a few items.

These free barre workouts require only 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.

An additional benefit of barre workouts is that they can be done by people of all fitness levels. If you are a beginner, you can make the exercises easier by using your body weight only or doing a smaller range of motion.

On the other hand, you can make barre exercises more challenging by doing them on your toes or increasing the range of motion.

5 Common Barre Class Moves

If you've tried barre classes at any studio, 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

The following barre exercises can be found in full body, toning barre workouts that can be done at home.

The 10 BEST Barre Workouts At Home

The most popular barre workouts are sorted into three categories: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. To find the best workout for you, click on the appropriate link below.

Beginner Barre Workouts At Home

Workouts that last 15 to 30 minutes are ideal for beginners with goals to tone muscles and lose weight.

All full length barre classes are lead by certified barre instructor Lindsey Bomgren. You will be provided with a barre workout that is challenging, yet fun and effective.

1. 15-Minute Low Impact Cardio Barre Workout

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Bodyweight
- 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.

2. 20-Minute Cardio Barre Class At Home

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
- 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).
- Workout Focus: Full body, toning barre workout.

3. 20-Minute Low Impact Beginner Barre Workout

- 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.

4. 30-Minute Bodyweight Cardio Barre Workout

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Bodyweight
- 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

gym-free workouts that last between 30 and 45 minutes and are designed to improve muscle and cardiovascular strength.

1. 30-Minute Power Barre Workout (the workout video at the top of this post)

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
- 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)!

2. 30-Minute Barre Blend Workout

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Optional light dumbbells and mini loop resistance band.
- Description: A high-energy, upbeat barre class with resistance bands (affiliate). This is an intense fusion of barre, strength training and cardio.
- Intensity: Moderate to advanced. Modifications are offered for various fitness levels.
- Workout Focus: Total body barre workout.

3. 45-Minute Barre Cardio Kickboxing Class

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Optional light dumbbells.
- 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.
- Workout Focus: Total body barre workout.

4. 45-Minute Cardio Barre Class

- Format: Full-length, follow along workout video.
- Equipment: Optional light dumbbells and mini loop resistance band.
- 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.
- Workout Focus: Total body barre workout.

Barre Butt Workouts + Barre Abs Workouts

1. 10-Minute Barre Butt + Abs

- Format: Photo and video demonstration of each bodyweight exercise.
- Equipment: Bodyweight
- Description: Barre butt and barre abs combo workout. There are no crunches in this barre ab workout, but it’s an intense ab workout.
- Intensity: Moderate to advanced.
- Workout Focus: Glutes, hamstrings, obliques, upper abs, and lower abs.

2. 6 Glute-Toning Barre Moves At Home

- 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.

A Beginner Barre Workout Anyone Can Do at Home (No Ballet Skills Required)

1. PARALLEL PLIÉS

Works your quads and calves.

Step 1: Start by standing with one arm resting on a barre or chair, and the other arm resting on your hip. Bring your feet together so that your toes are facing forward, and your ankles touch. Bend your knees, and then lift your heels off the ground.

Keeping your balance, start to lower and lift your body up and down in a pulsing motion. Push through your feet and squeeze your legs together to engage your quadriceps. The movement should be small, only raising and lowering your body about an inch. Repeat 16 times.

2. PARALLEL TOE TAPS

Works your calves, quads and glutes.

Step 1: Start by standing with one arm resting on a barre or chair at your side, and the other arm resting on your hip. Bring your feet together with your toes facing forward, until your ankles touch. Bend your knees, then lift both heels up off the ground.

Step two: stay in a squatting position and hit your right foot backwards and out, so your toes are pointing to create more power and extension. Do this 16 times then switch to your left side and repeat.

3. SECOND POSITION PLIÉS WITH ALTERNATING HEEL LIFTS

Works your quads, calves and glutes.

Start by standing with one arm resting on a barre or chair. Bring your other arm and feet out to second position, then bend your knees until your thighs are parallel to the ground.

Remain in the same position and start to move up and down, raising your heel on one side for four counts then lowering it and raising the heel on the other side for four counts. Repeat this sixteen times.

4. SECOND POSITION PLIÉ TO PASSÉ

Works your quads, glutes and inner thighs.

Start by standing up straight, with one arm resting on a barre or chair. Bring your other arm and your feet out to the side, until they are in line with your shoulders. Bend your knees until your thighs are parallel to the ground.

From a standing position, press through your feet to return to a standing position. As you do this, draw your outside leg in and up with your toe pointed, until it lightly touches your knee. Return to the second position plié and flow through 16 counts. Switch sides and repeat.

5. FIRST POSITION PLIÉS ON RELEVÉ

Works your quads and calves.

First, stand with one arm resting on a barre or chair, and the other arm outstretched in first position. Bring your feet into first position, with your heels touching and your toes pointed out. Lift your heels up into relevé, then bend both legs into a plié.

Next, balance on your feet and press through the balls of your feet to straighten your legs. Bend your legs again and flow through 16 counts. Then hold a plié position and pulse up an inch and down an inch for another 16 counts.

6. FIRST POSITION RELEVÉS

Works your calves, quads and glutes.

Start by standing with one arm resting on a barre or chair, and the other arm out in first position. Bring your feet into first position, with your heels touching and your toes pointed out.

Raise your heels whilst also swinging your arm up overhead, then lower back down and repeat the movement.

7. BATTEMENT KICKS

Works your core, hamstrings and inner thighs.

Stand with your body slightly angled away from the barre or chair, with one arm resting on it and the other arm in fifth position overhead. Bring your feet to first position, with your heels touching and your toes pointed out.

Step 2: Begin by brushing the floor with your right leg, lifting it as high as you can comfortably go. With control, lower your leg back down, alternating between fifth position (heel to toe) and first position (heels together, toes apart). That slight cross of the legs will help fire up your inner thighs. Flow through 16 counts, switch sides and repeat.

8. HAMSTRING PRESS BACK

Works your hamstrings and glutes.

Start by standing tall with both of your hands resting on a chair or barre for balance. Keeping your feet parallel to each other, bend your legs slightly into a plié position and lift your right foot off the ground.

To fire up your hamstring, curl your foot up and in towards the back of your thigh. From here, use your glutes to lift and lower the floating leg, so that the knees come together then separate as you lift. Flow through 16 counts, switch sides and repeat.

9. SIDE SEAT SERIES

Works your gluteus medius and obliques.

Start by standing with one elbow resting on a barre or chair, and the other arm extended high overhead. Bring your feet into first position, with your heels touching and your toes pointed out.

Step 2: Keeping your right leg straight, lift it up to the side while drawing your elbow down and in toward your hip. Your hips should be rotated and stacked on top of each other. Use your oblique to help lift your leg while keeping your spine long and extended. After 16 counts of full extension, hold the lifted position and pulse it out for 16 more counts.

10. PARALLEL LUNGE SERIES

Works your quads, glutes and calves.

Start by standing up straight with your chest facing the barre or chair, using both hands for balance. Take a step backwards with your right foot into a lunge, then bend both legs down into a plié, making sure your left knee is directly above your left ankle.

Pulse while remaining in a plié and without fully straightening either leg 16 times, then hold the lunge, lift your front heel and lower it 16 more times. Switch sides and repeat.

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