I’ve always been more of a get-out-and-go exerciser. I love the group exercise environment and enjoy both taking and teaching fitness classes, but after Chase was born, I quickly realized that making it out of the house to work out five or six days a week might be a little unrealistic. Class times don’t always coordinate well with Chase’s nap schedule (or lack of a nap schedule…) and I’m not about to wake a sleeping baby to drag him off to the gym. And if Chase ever has a runny nose or a cough, I try to be cognizant of the other little ones at my gym’s childcare and keep him (and his potential germs) at home.
So workouts seem to happen at home more and more these days! I often look to my Fitness Pinterest Board and the At Home Workouts I’ve shared on the blog in the past for inspiration. I have a small handful of workout DVDs to choose from as well, but after I saw one of my blogging buddies, Janae, blog about Grokker, I signed up for a free two-week trial.
Grokker is a community and resource for busy people who want to make time for wellness. The site offers more than 1,500 full-length, expert led fitness and wellness-related videos, ranging from barre, cardio and strength training videos to meditation, sports conditioning, flexibility and healthy cooking videos. Videos range in length from 10 minutes to more than an hour which is perfect for someone like me who sometimes has only 20 minutes to work out but also occasionally wants to get in a quality 60-minute sweat session.
During my free two-week trial, Grokker caught wind of my love for one of their yoga flow videos that focused on my hips when I briefly mentioned it on the blog a couple of weeks ago. They reached out to offer to extend my membership to 90 days and give you guys a chance to try out the site, too! I was psyched since my two weeks was quickly ending and I was already beginning to count on Grokker videos as a go-to resource for me during my at home workouts.
So far, I’ve really enjoyed most of the videos I’ve tried, but since there are tons to choose from, if one isn’t really my speed/style, I can quickly browse around to find one that it a better fit. I REALLY like the 20-minute HIIT videos by Kelly Lee and find myself turning to them again and again.
Here’s an example of one of the Grokker HIIT arm workouts I found in the HIIT Club Arms Workout by Kelly Lee that I completed last week:
As a personal trainer, I really love the way the HIIT Club Arm Workout video offers modifications for beginners and also offers ways to make the workout harder for those who might be a little more advanced. (There were also two people physically doing the workout with Kelly Lee who were demonstrating these modifications the entire time.) You can also interact with the trainers in the videos by leaving them comments and participating in the Grokker community.
One thing I didn’t think I’d really use all that much that completely surprised me is the Cooking section of Grokker. There are tons of healthy recipe videos on the site, but if you don’t have time to watch the video, you can find all the details from the recipes mentioned in the videos right below the video on the site.
(If you’re looking for a place to start, I’ve made two of Stephanie O’Dea’s slow cooker recipes and we loved them. Her sweet potato chili is awesome.)
You can sort through the cooking videos by a myriad of topics ranging from specific cuisines and interests to specialty diets and specific meals. (FYI for my fellow parents out there, Grokker has an entire section of their cooking videos dedicated to baby and toddler-friendly food.)
And now it’s time for a Grokker G-I-V-E-A-W-A-Y!
Grokker PBF Reader Discount and Giveaway
One PBF reader will win a ONE YEAR free membership to Grokker! To enter this giveaway, simply visit the Grokker website and tell me what type of videos they offer sound the most appealing to you. Are you excited to check out yoga videos or barre workouts? Do the cooking videos or toning and interval training videos appeal to you most? Let me know! I will randomly select a winner next Friday.
Grokker is also offering the first 100 PBF readers who sign up for Grokker one year full access to Grokker for less than the cost of one hour personal training. That’s 40 percent off their annual plan! Just use the promo code NEWYEAR16 at registration to get a full year of Grokker for $71.93. Click here to get started!
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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Grokker but I am personally sponsoring the giveaway portion of this post. I truly appreciate your support surrounding the sponsored posts that help support our family. Thank you!
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Yes please!!! With a toddler on the loose I NEVER make it to the gym anymore. Tone and Trim looks like a great one!
I’m definitely looking to tone up, so I’d head to that section first! It looks like a great website all around! Thanks for sharing!
I would use the weight training videos. A great site. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I am not able to get to the gym regularly with a little one and I would love to get back to pilates. the tone and trim looks great too. thanks for sharing a great website.
The cooking videos look awesome!
I recently tried Grokker and I love the HIIT work outs by Sarah Kusch. But I also want to try a ton of other ones!
I would do the yoga or HIIT workouts. I am trying to put more yoga workouts in my weekly excercise routine.
I would love to try their basic toning videos, this mama NEEDS to get her booty back in shape!!
I’m excited to give Grokker a try! I’m going to try the trim and tone and HIIT videos first. Yoga is also one I might try out too! Thanks for blogging about it. Never heard of it before!!
I want to try the prenatal classes. After my baby is born I would like to try them all!
Looking over the videos, it would be hard for me to choose just one! The HIIT, Pilates, and Healthy Eating videos look good to me!
I would try a bootcamp workout!
Hi! Grokker looks awesome, I’d love the HIIT workouts and yoga videos!
I love barre classes, so those would be my go to!
I’d like to try some of the HIIT club workouts!
I definitely need to incorporate more yoga into my life, so I would be anxious to try out those!
As a grad student studying counseling (and experiencing my fair share of stress), the Nourishing Heart Yoga video caught my eye!
I love Grokker! The stretching and yoga workouts are awesome, specifically the ones they have for athletes. So helpful. Thanks for hosting this giveaway 🙂
I LOVE HIIT workouts! I am also interested in barre. It’s something I’ve never really tired before.
I would love to get some new cardio videos. I feel like I’m getting burned out by always defaulting to my treadmill!
I love the barre workouts!
Oh man, I’ve been wanting to try their yoga series for a while now. Most days I work out at home before I go to work so this would be an excellent resource!
I’d love to try the hiit workouts!
Yoga since typically little studios don’t have childcare for my tiny humans! 🙂
Definitely yoga! I would mind trying out something new every once in awhile, but yoga is definitely my jam!
The barre workouts!
The Barre classes sound like something really fun that I would love to try. In Australia Barre does not seem to be as big so I have not been able to get my hands on any at home work outs with them but have been looking for ages 🙂
I’m excited to check out the HIIT videos!
I’m looking forward to the HIIT and Tone and Trim Workouts 🙂 Maybe even the meditation as I know I need to be more mindful!
I would enjoy the HIIT and Toning and Sculpting classes most! But they all sound awesome! 🙂
Barre since there are no studios around me! 🙁
The barre workouts for sure!! Although yoga for hips is a good idea…amazing how much yoga influences your other workouts lime running etc.
Definitely the barre workouts!!
I would love to try the barre and kickboxing classes the most. The cooking videos and stuff look cool too!
I love the HITT workouts. they really work!
At home barre workouts would be AMAZING!
Flexibility has never been my strong suit, and I’ve recently started focusing on doing yoga in the evenings. This would be so great to add to my workouts 🙂
All of it excites me! I would love some new recipes and doable at home workouts of all types, but especially yoga and barre.
The barre videos!
I am moving away to college this fall so this would be perfect if I wanted to fit in some workouts in my dorm room!
HIIT training is my favorite!
I love HIIT workouts….but would love trying out some Yoga to change things up!!!
Their yoga series looks awesome but I am in a “meal drought” so the recipes look good too.
I would iike to try HIIT and meditation – opposite ends of the spectrum = ) And yoga to help get some form cues since i’m not inclined to do it normally.
Id love to try the hit work outs!
As a very long time reader (5+ years) I came here to say that I’m not a huge fan of the direction pbf has taken. While I still LOVE reading about you, your family, sadie and the fun stuff, I feel like a huge percentage of these posts are now “evergreen” (as you mentioned before) or sponsored. It’s no longer as fun to read and the feeling I get from this blog is that it is much more of a business now than the fun blog I loved to read before. I get super excited when I read an entry that feels like the old pbf, but those are so far outnumbered these days by the sponsored posts or the ones that include barely more than a workout or recipe to pin on pinterest and no longer include the fun details of your day. I truly hope that you don’t view this as an attack on your blog, I just really miss the old pbf that was so fun to read!!
Hi LG! I’ve been thinking about your comment a lot this weekend, so I apologize for taking so long to respond. I actually have a LOT to say, so I’m going to email you from the email address you entered into this comment. I hope that’s okay!! THANK YOU for reading for so long. I really, really appreciate it and thank you for leaving constructive feedback for me in a kind and thoughtful way.
I love total body HIIT style work outs and I find myself always doing go-to routines, but it’s good to give our bodies variety, so I would like to do new routines that will challenge different parts of my body!
I’d love to try the HIIT workouts! My hips could definitely use some yoga too.
I would love some fun dance video’s!
Yoga and cooking videos!
I have done several Grokker workouts that I found through the daily emails I get from Greatist, and Kelly Lee is my favorite as well! I would love to try more of her workouts.