The best under-desk bikes for staying active at home

For under £90, you can complete a tour de living room with this affordable yet effective under-desk bike from Domyos. It features a simple display that shows all your keys stats, including elapsed time, cadence, number of pedal turns, calories burned, and distance covered. You can use this data to track your progress over time and set fitness goals, all from the comfort of your sofa.

“I found it extremely easy to incorporate into my working day, unlike an under-desk treadmill, which isn’t suited to tasks that require deep concentration,” said our senior health and wellness writer, Priyankaa Joshi. She also praised the featherlight design, noting that it was simple to move around her flat, allowing her to use it at her desk and on the sofa while watching TV. As a bonus, the set-up process was extremely straightforward. Read her full under-desk bike review.

You can achieve a variety of goals with this bike, as it features eight different resistance settings, so you can adjust the difficulty levels to suit. You can also change the pedal height to work with various office set-ups, so your knees won't hit your desk. Plus, it claims to be fairly quiet, so your colleagues won't even know you're getting your pedal on during Zoom calls.

As well as allowing you to cycle both forward and backward, this bike comes with an LCD display that shows you metrics, such as calories burned, speed, time and distance. Simply adjust the velcro strap to ensure your foot remains secured against the pedal and start cycling. Our only quibble is that this bike doesn't come with a handle, which makes it less portable than other picks.

A great choice thanks to its 2-in-1 design, this under desk bike allows you to pedal with either your feet or your hands. A surface grip keeps the bike in place on your desk so you can work your upper body as well as your lower body, and the carry handle makes it easy to move it around if you don't want to keep it at the office, or you want to move it from your home office to your couch.

Like many other under desk bikes, there are eight levels of magnetic resistance and a display that tracks activity. Although it may not be the most elegant looking, our experts appreciate that it’s fairly affordable in comparison to other models and it's still well made.

Coming in at 8kg, this under-desk bike hits that perfect sweet spot –it's not too heavy to move around, but substantial enough to feel sturdy. The weight helps hold the machine in place while you pedal, too. It has a handle on the top designed to make it easily portable as well, in case you ever want to bike from your living room.

The included resistance bands mean you can work your upper body when you’re ready to take a break from your keyboard too. And if that's not enough, you’re also able to pedal with your hands to build up your arm strength.

This compact and lightweight under-desk bike is quite literally the perfect fit if you’re tight on space. It's collapsable and only weighs 2kg, so it can be shoved into a corner, no bother.

Track your performance via the screen display, and adjust the intensity via a tension knob if you need more (or less) difficulty on your legs or arms. Though it may not have as many features as some other picks on our list, it's an affordable one that does the job.

Though mini, the adjustable resistance knob on this machine means you can still put a mighty amount of miles in under the desk. You can track them via a large LCD screen that displays time, count, calories and distance — and you can turn on the scan feature so it constantly rotates which stat it displays.

While the lightweight properties make it great for moving around and storing, we recommend placing an exercise mat underneath it in case it moves while you're getting the miles in.

Choose between silver or black colourways.