Apple Fitness+ Now Offers Over 4,000 Workout and Meditation Videos

[WU27f1xcCs]

Apple Fitness combined with my Ultra has literally changed my health. I’ve gone from sedentary to averaging 25km of running a week, and 100 mins of exercise a day, with 900 average active calories. I combine running, walking, core and strength training.

My body has gone from skinny fat to lean and muscular, with a six pack etc. Just wish they’d make the app a bit better to navigate and in would be perfect.

 

[philstubbington]

Since the service is aimed at all users and Apple are representative of everyone then I applaud their trainers being of all body frames. It’s far healthier, realistic and a more body positive message to be sending to users And none are overweight in any way.

Plus, at least 5 of the trainers are British, so I personally don’t feel it to be US tailored. Having said that, I do really like 2 of the British trainers so mostly follow their sessions.

Completely agree. Physical fitness is not down to a set of numbers. Also, some of the trainers who are physically larger or considerably older can move themselves far quicker and with greater flexibility than I can.

Fitness isn’t about comparing yourself to anyone at the end of the day, it’s a personal journey with your own motivations and aims.

 

[e-coli]

1. Certain cultures hold weight in different parts of their bodies due to genetics.
2. The trainer could be a mother. Pregnancy does terrible things to your body.
3. It’s inclusive. Not everyone is thin. And the omnipresent imagery of perfect people is bad for self esteem and, in this case, bad for motivation and participation.

 

[Alan Wynn]

With massive content, you need powerful filtering.

There has been quite a bit of filtering for quite some time, including upper body vs. lower body.

You cannot bookmark workouts, or create meaningful sequences of workouts (and save them) to work all muscle groups, or whatever your goal is.

Again, you have been able to bookmark workouts for more than a year (I do not remember how much longer than that, but it has been a long time. They do not yet offer sequencing nor building workout plans, but for some of these things, having enough workouts is critical. Hard to filter or sequence with only a small number of options.

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 have no idea when you last used it, but many of your complaints were addressed a long time ago.

 

[Alan Wynn]

Are you doing the workout on AppleTV or your phone?

I love doing the workouts on my AppleTV. My b/f and I even have a travel kit with an AppleTV, HDMI and Ethernet cables, and a remote just for our workouts. We use Fitness+ as well as Streaks Workout and Daily Yoga.

When I use Fitness+ my rings are shown on the TV along with the calories and minutes I have been working out.

The one thing I would like to see is allowing it to display the data for two people (so that my b/f and I could both see our stats when we use it together).

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.

I also use it on the big screen. About to get a rower and a treadmill for our home gym, to give us more Fitness+ workout options.

 

[Alan Wynn]

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.

I want a personalized workout plan that ties into Apple Health so that it has my weight and other body metrics. It would also be great if it adjusted based on what I was actually doing.

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.

Being able to configure workout plans and groups of workouts would be really nice. Now that they have thousands of workouts, these kind of features make lots of sense.

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.

I hope you are right. They have all my health and fitness data, it would be nice if they offered the ability to view it on my iPad/Mac, and if they started to personalize things based on my on device data. They certainly have the processing power they need locally to make it all work.

 

[tennisproha]

And of course it’s in Santa Monica. 😆

is there something significant about that?

 

[Alan Wynn]

Apple Music is not like any other services … cannot be shared or used by two people with their watches at all.

Apple Music is just like Spotify, one can have an individual subscription or a family subscription (with only two people, one gets a fifty percent discount for the second user). If you are talking about Fitness+ here, and it is (and always has been) available for family sharing at no additional cost.

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

You seem to be mixing Apple Music and Fitness+ in your comments. Fitness+ subscriptions - both stand-alone and part of AppleOne bundles - have always supported Family Sharing. Apple Music, has a Family Plan option, just like Spotify.

 

[Alan Wynn]

I love doing yoga with Jonelle, it amazes me how flexible she is. Not only that, but she is always so happy to be there - her enthusiasm is infectious.

 

[Alan Wynn]

There used to be a guy with one leg. I wonder what happened to him. 🤔

Amir retired from Fitness+ and from teaching fitness altogether. He had a post on Instagram, here is a reddit thread about it.

 

[Reason077]

To be fair, there's a variety of body types in that picture. Presumably Apple wants to be inclusive - why does every instructor need to have a perfect gym body?

 

[Alan Wynn]

Ah no. I’ve been doing yoga for the past 9 months almost everyday and thought I was making progress. I’ve never been to a real life studio. But now I learn I’m no better than beginner.

Good to know that someone who has never seen your progress can judge it. I have been doing Fitness+ workouts since the beginning and I have seen lots of progress.

Ah well, have to keep on practicing!

Yup.

 

[Alan Wynn]

To be fair I am pretty sure that pic is of LaShawn, a dance instructor. People come in all shapes and sizes of course, she is fit, I mean she is a trainer in other videos and easily shows me up and I am 'smaller' than she is.

I think she might be pregnant, as it seems her tummy is bigger than it was in the earlier videos. Not sure, hard to tell from the picture.

 

[Alan Wynn]

Oh and what I really love is the inclusion: be it gay trainers, people of color, young and old ones, trainers with a disability. I also just love how I discover different music styles.

I love that they have done inclusion right. Just added lots of people with all different body types, ages, races, etc. and did not spend hours congratulating themselves for doing it. I also love that, thanks to their 3 trainer model, they always get me to do the most I can, without making me feel bad when I am not as good as the one in front or the back right (the two hardest).

 

[jole]

I take it you have F+ at a discount price with Apple One. Since Apple is charging a royal sum for F+ it’s just not included in Apple One, at least not in my area. I keep getting those 3-month trial offers from Apple.

Has been included (in USA) in the AppleOne since the beginning. $32.95/month.

 

[Laissez-faire]

I tried for 4 month, it's so useless.

 

[cr2]

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.

I agree with you. With a simple tweaks it can be improved a lot. Some of them are a waste, one example is rowing and the other biking. Rowing it not done well (look at YouTube videos for correct technique or Concept 2 videos from their site), biking is atrocious (look for GCN training videos on YouTube).

I like 3-4 instructors and I only click on their videos. I might be politically incorrect but I wish they understand it is okay to have normal people for more videos.

 

[mdatwood]

I like F+, and use it regularly for the strength workouts. I can easily make any F+ workout as challenging as I want by adding more weight. Using 50# as the heavy DBs in any of the workouts will crush most people.

I do wish they would add some kettle bell oriented classes.

 

[East India Company]

Going to cancel my current gym membership to try this out.

Don’t do it, a real gym is always better and more “human”. Or better, take your fitness+ to the gym!

 

[ELman]

I use this service all the time. I wish Apple would make the fitness app available on iPads that don‘t have an Apple Watch associate with the Apple ID On the iPad being used.

 

[ELman]

Going to cancel my current gym membership to try this out.

I have found this service to be a huge timesaver. I created my own home gum to use with Fitness Plus. I like to workout in the morning and it beats going to the gym, especially in the winter.

 

[Nwtmac]

Men's Journal's Jacob Krol was recently invited to tour the Apple Fitness+ studio in Santa Monica, California, providing another behind-the-scenes look at the subscription-based workout service. Krol had the opportunity to speak with Jay Blahnik, Apple's VP of Fitness Technologies, and met many of the trainers involved in the workouts.

The first Fitness+ studio tours were shared last year, and this one provides some more details. Krol said the studio is one large room with equipment spread across several workout and meditation areas, and videos are recorded with 13 robotic cameras and a few human-operated cameras under a dense lighting grid. The live productions are monitored by a crew in a control room to ensure everything is being filmed correctly.

Apple said Fitness+ now offers over 4,000 workouts and meditations, with new ones added every week. The videos range from 5 to 45 minutes in length, and there are a dozen workout types available, with the latest additions including pilates and kickboxing.

"Everything we look at going forward is about how do we make sure that people have great success in their fitness journey, whether Apple Fitness+ is a complement to something they already love to do outside of our service, or whether Apple Fitness+ is the only thing they do to get moving and meditate," said Blahnik. "What can we do to make the experience even easier, smoother, something they can fit into their life more regularly?"

Launched in 2020, Fitness+ is available in the Fitness app on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. The service can now be used with just an iPhone, but an Apple Watch is still needed to view real-time, personal metrics on screen during workouts, such as heart rate and calories burned. In the U.S., Fitness+ is priced at $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year, or it can be bundled with other Apple services via Apple One for $32.95 per month.

A single Fitness+ subscription can be shared with up to five other family members, and the service comes with a free one-month trial for all users. Users who purchase a new ‌iPhone‌, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple TV qualify for a three-month trial.

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Do they have virtual treadmill runs or bike rides? Also, is there any way to see the watch info projected on the screen while watching other content? Those would be features I would use a lot, and from there I would be curious to check out other workouts.

 

[East India Company]

Since the service is aimed at all users and Apple are representative of everyone then I applaud their trainers being of all body frames. It’s far healthier, realistic and a more body positive message to be sending to users And none are overweight in any way.

Plus, at least 5 of the trainers are British, so I personally don’t feel it to be US tailored. Having said that, I do really like 2 of the British trainers so mostly follow their sessions.

I agree that having trainers of all shape and size is encouraging for those who struggle and helps connect to more people, however the comment was not rude in any way and pointing to the health aspect.
Lashawn is overweight (surely not by much) and there’s another trainer who is morbidly obese. Obesity related problems is the first cause of mortality amongst industrialised nations and as such should be tackled, not hidden. No one should be shamed for that but there is nothing positive about it.
A trainer with a healthy body is a goal worthy to be shown. Anyway it’s easy to skip the trainers you don’t like.

 

[danniehansen]

And still not Denmark.

 

[timber]

You are not be wrong about your perceptions on the content being US-centric. Americans are a very proud people, to the extent that they think they are the "best", not unlike China or Russia or a dozen other countries. While Apple is a very proud American corporation, I'd like to see them take a truly international effort with their Fitness like they have with Music.

They could release it as it is, a lot of people understand English and there is always subtitles.