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What equipment do I need?

Quick answer: A set of light, medium, and heavy dumbbells is the one essential for home workouts. A bench, long band, mini band, and small ball are recommended. Everything else is optional or has a household substitute, and each class lists exactly what it uses. Gym equipment is only used in Self-Paced workouts when you choose Gym at the top of the workout.

Basic or Gym equipment

Follow Along videos always use basic equipment, so you never need gym equipment to follow them.

In Self-Paced workouts, you choose Gym or At Home at the top of each workout. Gym equipment appears only when you choose Gym. The Basic or Gym question during onboarding sets your starting point; the toggle on each workout is what you actually use.

To switch between Follow Along and Self-Paced, tap Profile and use the style dropdown below your due date.

Essential

  • Dumbbells: a set of light, medium, and heavy. The core piece of equipment for working out at home.

Recommended

  • Bench: used in many workouts. Light, foldable options are available online.

  • Long band: used in warm ups and cross body movements. You can still do the workouts without one.

  • Mini band: adds glute activation. Not mandatory, but worth having.

  • Small ball (Pilates ball): used throughout postpartum recovery. Pillows and a towel work as a substitute.

Optional, with household substitutes

  • Blocks: yoga and some mobility classes. Use books, stacked pillows, or towels instead.

  • Bolster: some yoga and postpartum classes, for support. Use pillows or a folded blanket instead.

  • Pillows, chair, towel: things you already have. The towel is for extra comfort in a few postpartum workouts.

  • Foam roller: some mobility sessions.

  • Birth ball: used in Labor Prep only.

Specialty, used in a handful of classes

  • Ankle weights and hand weights: Pilates classes only.

  • Slam ball, sliders, step: each appears in only a few workouts.

  • Massage ball: a few guided classes.

Gym only (Self-Paced, Gym setting)

  • Cable machine, barbell, pull up bar. Never used in Follow Along videos. The barbell appears only in advanced Self-Paced workouts.

See what a workout needs

  • Your program: Profile > View Program > Equipment List.

  • Any class: open the class; the Equipment List is shown under the description. "No equipment required" means none.

  • Self-Paced workouts: switch between Gym and At Home at the top of the workout to see the exercises and equipment for each.

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