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Apple Fitness+ Now Offers Over 4,000 Workout and Meditation Videos
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These videos don't do anything for me and doesn't even entice me. BTW, not in the US.
Well, you saved me time trying to find out if it’s available here.
I was kinda tempted just now.
Apple, please let two users connect to the same fitness class with our apple watches so we can both see our metrics displayed on screen when using the apple tv.
I discovered YouTube offers the same thing for free.
+1.
If they had female trainers that were super hot and had supermodel bodies, people would complain about that.
I do mostly HIIT and find Bakari excellent. Certainly you can't say he's in bad shape!
You can take most of the workouts at different levels. Normally there are 3 people, with the trainer in the back on the left going at a slower pace. Follow the one on the right in the back, and you could get your heart rate up, or try a more intense and longer workout.
It seems a very bad plan. A gym membership has a lot more value than this service. Unless you live in the states where apparently gyms seem to have extortionate prices. Where I live for £21 per month I get a ton of high quality equipment, free classes and 24/7 access. I wouldn’t trade that for some videos of people jumping around 😅
Epic delivery failure of epically great content. Apple has not listened to any customer suggestions/complains since Fitness+ was introduced:
With massive content, you need powerful filtering. Still missing in action. Suppose I have a leg injury and I can't do lunges (as in a lot of content) - so just standing and bouncing until another move comes up is a waste of time and I want to do upper body. Absolutely no way to filter for that. I could go on and on... but you get the point. I had signed up for a year subscription and while i liked the instructors and workouts (looking at you Bakari and HIIT), it took too much time to find suitable workouts to cover all muscle groups or to avoid groups that were already over-worked by a different workout.
You cannot bookmark workouts, or create meaningful sequences of workouts (and save them) to work all muscle groups, or whatever your goal is.
The content is wasted if it cannot be searched and organized according to customer needs. I'll sign up again if that ever happens.
With massive content, you need powerful filtering. Still missing in action. Suppose I have a leg injury and I can't do lunges (as in a lot of content) - so just standing and bouncing until another move comes up is a waste of time and I want to do upper body. Absolutely no way to filter for that. I could go on and on... but you get the point. I had signed up for a year subscription and while i liked the instructors and workouts (looking at you Bakari and HIIT), it took too much time to find suitable workouts to cover all muscle groups or to avoid groups that were already over-worked by a different workout.
You cannot bookmark workouts, or create meaningful sequences of workouts (and save them) to work all muscle groups, or whatever your goal is.
The content is wasted if it cannot be searched and organized according to customer needs. I'll sign up again if that ever happens.
I don’t want to be ‘represented’ by a personal trainer, I want them to be the best possible version of what they are training.
I wouldn’t want to subscribe to a language learning school where teachers have various levels of language proficiency to be more representative of the students.
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This is a false equivalency. Of course a language instructor should be fluent. Just as a fitness instructor should be capable of teaching whatever the class is about. Someone not having a "perfect" body does not mean that they cannot be a fitness instructor. They are not there to be thirsted over. I you think any of the Fitness+ instructors cannot do their job, call them out by name. I don't think you can!
I forget who it was a couple of years ago who was pregnant... the classes are still no doubt online. She took the #1 position (lowest impact) of the 3 instructors in many classes toward the end of her pregnancy.. and also did some specific pregnancy exercise classes. It was great. Are you saying that she should have just stayed home, and that pregnant women around the world should not have had her teach what could be done with their balance/etc altered by pregnancy?
If a teacher is overweight, but can do the moves... isn't that useful for someone who is also overweight and is feeling that they can't do it? Again, as others have mentioned, each workout has 3 instructors doing low impact, medium and high. It makes the workouts approachable by anyone without feeling shamed by their ability as they get started and become increasingly fit.
Again, if they can do the job, what does it matter what they look like?
There is so much I disagree with in this I don’t even know where to start replying.
I suppose the main and core point of disagreement is in the notion that an overweight person can do this job well. If they can ‘teach the class’ and have been doing it for a while and are still not in perfect shape then the class is not that useful and I’d rather take a different class. Of course the pregnant woman is a different and very special case: one can be pregnant only for so long, it is by definition a transient condition, a great trainer can of course happen to be pregnant. Personally I’d put the content she produces during that very special time in a separate and dedicated course as it has value for people in the same condition, but probably other people are more interested in content with trainers doing things a pregnant person can’t (or at least shouldn’t) do.
To each their own I suppose, I’ll keep steering clear of this service and give my money to trainers with bodies I aspire to achieve rather than people who are a walking proof of the ineffectiveness of the class they teach.
I love Fitness+ and like a lot of things people care about, we always want more.
It would be great if we could turn off the music audio channel and play our own. I’m not into hip hop so there are a lot of workouts I skip over. I’d do those workouts if I could play my own playlist. I get that the workouts are catered to the playing song but perhaps a tighter integration with Apple Music would surface a series of playlists with the same BPM, in different genres.
I‘d also like to see more interactive features on screen. For example, you can’t bring up the currently playing song or tap your rings to see the details. These usually come on during predetermined parts of the workout but very often, you want to tap to see the calories you’ve burned or the minutes youve worked out, and tapping the rings does nothing. Tapping the screen anywhere should just bring up all the details: expand the rings to show numbers, show the player controls and display the song/artist.
It would be great if we could turn off the music audio channel and play our own. I’m not into hip hop so there are a lot of workouts I skip over. I’d do those workouts if I could play my own playlist. I get that the workouts are catered to the playing song but perhaps a tighter integration with Apple Music would surface a series of playlists with the same BPM, in different genres.
I‘d also like to see more interactive features on screen. For example, you can’t bring up the currently playing song or tap your rings to see the details. These usually come on during predetermined parts of the workout but very often, you want to tap to see the calories you’ve burned or the minutes youve worked out, and tapping the rings does nothing. Tapping the screen anywhere should just bring up all the details: expand the rings to show numbers, show the player controls and display the song/artist.
Apparently that’s coming. An AI fitness coach that determines your goals and compiles workouts and a plan. You can already save workouts though. I have all my favs saved.
It would still be nice to have an Apple Music-like Library so you can organize your workouts in playlists or groups of some sort so you can plan your week.
I like that Apple is ramping up PR about Fitness+ ahead of WWDC. Sends a signal that they’re comfortable drawing media attention to something that they’re going to want them talking about.
That would involve sweat, showers, toilets — things that would introduce new challenges. Outside of this, I like the idea.
I like Fitness+ if they would add a stretching section to help prevent injuries would be very helpful.
Fitness+ doesn’t offer a way to progress beyond beginner level. If you’re looking to build muscle, you need to be increasing weight and resistance over time. You can’t build muscle by doing similar workouts with body weight or light dumbbells over and over again. Similarly the yoga classes never progress. That’s why I cancelled Fitness+ and use Fitbod and a gym membership to power my workouts. Or free YouTube videos if I just want a beginner workout at home.
Are you doing the workout on AppleTV or your phone? When I use Fitness+ my rings are shown on the TV along with the calories and minutes I have been working out. I'm wearing an Apple watch and using AppleTV on a big screen. I do turn down the sound since I rarely care for the music they use, but it's not a big deal. I don't do the work out to listen to music, I do it for the exercise.
You could do one of the "Mindful Cooldowns" before you work out. Ep 42 has stretches for your chest, back and legs.
Apple Fitness has always struck me as a missed opportunity. With the amount of data it's collecting from the watch there's no reason why this couldn't have been delivering a tailored workout plan for every individual based on their individual goals e.g increase running distance, increase rowing speed, build muscle mass etc. Instead they essentially just replicated the Les Mills model you get in the majority of commercial gyms. Very odd decision in my opinion, especially for a company that normally likes to redefine an industry.
Apple Music is not like any other services … cannot be shared or used by two people with their watches at all. We had a free trial and were eager to use and thought this behavior was a bug. Once we found it was working as intended we quit. We have a lot of services from apple we share between spouse and I but not paying for two apple fitness accounts
I’d be happy with just the ability to mute the music. For some videos I’ve turned on the subtitles and muted the volume as either the music was terrible, the trainer was talking too much, or both.
I do not get it: The overly cheerfully plastic sessions just feel repulsive to me. Am I alone in this?
(Bg. I train 5 times a week. Love running, use Nike Run Club on Apple Watch, like mountain biking, use Calm for some meditations, study various health topics, enjoy Huberman podcast and like,... I have access to Apple Fitness+ through AppleOne subscription, but never use it. While I do love Apple overall, Apple Fitness+ just feels wrong)
(Bg. I train 5 times a week. Love running, use Nike Run Club on Apple Watch, like mountain biking, use Calm for some meditations, study various health topics, enjoy Huberman podcast and like,... I have access to Apple Fitness+ through AppleOne subscription, but never use it. While I do love Apple overall, Apple Fitness+ just feels wrong)
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