If you are not using paid workouts now, you have no idea how much you are missing out on. YouTube is good, but paid works are just better in many ways.
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Apple Fitness+ Comes With 3 Month Free Trial When Purchasing Apple Watch, But Best Buy Customers Get 6 Months
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If you are not using paid workouts now, you have no idea how much you are missing out on. YouTube is good, but paid works are just better in many ways.
Peloton workouts are killer, you can do them without their bike. And sub is cheaper without their bike because you can't compete on the leaderboards. Schwinn makes a great bike that tracks everything the Peloton trackers and it is about $800 (no builtin screen).
I have used Beachbody and Les Mills for years, there is lots of excellent premium content out there for working out at home.
Not really. Peleton’s stand-alone app is $12.99 and doesn’t require their equipment.
They definitely have more competition now, but they’re far from needing to raise the white flag. You might see them lower to $9.99 as a response.
Music to my ears. I have the digital Peloton subscription for my IC4 spin bike and really like it ($12.99CDN/9.99US per month), wife enjoys their yoga classes. If Fitness+ has good bike classes I just may switch us over. I LOVE Fitness+ includes rowing machine workouts, this is a first ever! I’m going to be so ripped spring 2021 (if I’m alive still).
Maybe they’ll launch that new Apple TV with Fitness+. My wallet has been ready for months now..
Maybe they’ll launch that new Apple TV with Fitness+. My wallet has been ready for months now..
Kind of cool that your stats show up on the screen. But don't they already do that on the watch? I guess having a regimented all-encompassing solution will be good for some people. Youtube workouts and flicking a look at my watch now and then, will save me $79 a year.
I wonder how this will treat multiple people working out at the same time. If my wife and I work out together. I assume it will only show stats for the person that started the workout. It would be nice to have the option of showing stats for 2 people on screen.
I don't think anybody knows for sure, but I would assume you could still use the videos just without the live feedback on the screen.
I think this is a good start. However, equipment integration is a different market that they're missing out on. A treadmill that raises and lowers on elevation changes in the run, a bike that changes resistance depending on where they're going. Pelaton and iFit have this market and I think this shows Apple isn't diving that far into it. I view this more as an extra step on their platform with the watch they have now rather than Apple jumping into the fitness world. It's a good step and they'll still probably do fairly well, however, until they integrate with equipment, there is only so much they can do. Maybe they develop a platform for manufactures to connect to in the future? If I were them, I would have looked at making a bid to buy iFit. That would have scared Pelaton.
I enjoy what Peloton has done with their on demand workouts, that said I'm trying to keep an open mind as to what Apple can do to compete in this segment.
Great job! I think some of us went the other direction, but to lose that much is incredible.
Probably still recovering from the SE2020+ screen protector fiasco. For real, they probably won't start sales until Friday. Is Apple the only site doing preorders?
Yes when I just did the treadmill at the gym every other day. I didn't lose any noticeable weight, but I definitely was much better cardio wise. I almost died going the littlest bit on speed 1 in the beginning, and in the end, my legs would start hurting before I would even feel slightly winded.
Wow I was thinking this exact thing as I read the previous post. Would be nice to have at least two show.
I don’t have a US payment method or billing address. Also it should be them jumping the hoops to sell me their sh*t, not me trying to buy it. Until then, too bad for them.
The worst thing is in some cases there is no official distribution at all, or they sell only part of the series (like the sci-fi stuff I mentioned before)... because reasons.
No, it does not. A few hours per week of any intense exercise will improve your fitness levels immensely. I lost 40kg just with running outside and Nike Fitness in front of my TV (long time ago it was an Xbox app using Kinect, not sure about now).
Besides, try any decent vinyasa yoga class and see how it goes - I almost sh*t myself during my first ever downdog 😬
I understand that and you’re right of course but you could have accesses to those books and much more (think all Apple TV US channel, News(+)) today. Any US address will do. Just search the Internet. and I’m sure any country will have someone selling iTunes gift card.
I don't live in your covid soaked country, mate. My country locked down enough to get rid of it (barring a few outbreaks, which are then appropriately contained and isolated). We are now free to safely go about our business and fun more or less at will. It's a shame every other country didn't do the same, or we'd all be more or less back to normal by now, and travelling the world again, sigh.