Exercises for kids at home

If somebody lives downstairs

31 workouts have nothing that jumps, stamps or drops. On the Gym's front page there is a Quiet chip that shows only these — it is the filter parents in flats ask for most, and the reason it exists.

If there is no room

15 workouts fit in an arm's length of floor — enough to lie down with your arms out. That is a bedroom, a hallway, or the space beside a desk.

Things in the house that count as equipment

A ball, a towel, a chair, a step, a wall, a cushion, a laundry basket, chalk or tape, a rolled-up sock, a shoe for a marker, and a backpack with a book or two in it. That is the whole list, and nothing on it needs buying.

Is this safe at home?

There is no barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, bench or bar anywhere in the Gym — the words are not even in its data, so a future workout cannot reach for one. The heaviest thing a child ever picks up is a ball, a towel, or a backpack with a book or two in it, and only from 3rd grade; nothing goes overhead with anything in the hands below 4th grade, and nothing anywhere puts weight on a head or a neck. The two youngest levels have no clock to race. Every workout that leaves the ground teaches landing first, in its own warm-up, and every workout page carries the same five stop signals — dizzy, chest hurts, can't catch your breath, a sharp pain in one spot, feeling sick — read aloud before any clock starts.

Why nothing here mentions weight

The Gym never mentions weight, shape, size or calories, and never suggests eating less. About sixty of those words are refused in the code itself, in every line a child reads, including the spoken ones. What it says instead is strong, fast, springy, steady and bendy — and that food is fuel.

Questions

What can a child do in a small bedroom?

Most of the Gym. Tap the "a bit of floor" chip on the front page and it will show only what fits.

How do I stop it annoying the neighbours?

Use the Quiet chip. Nothing on that shelf leaves the ground or makes a bang — our own tests refuse a workout that claims to be quiet while containing something that isn't.

Do we need to buy anything?

No. 5 workouts need nothing, and everything else uses things already in a house.

Nothing is sent anywhere

The Gym is free, with no ads and no sign-up. There is no camera, no pose detection and no leaderboard. What your child has done and their own best times stay on their own device and are never sent anywhere, so there is nothing to lose and no account to make.