Not much difference from signing up at your local gym and trying a class for the first time. Those classes do not give you one on one. Not sure how this is any different. Oh I know, access without a gym membership or contract and even better, without feeling embarrassed trying something new.
A great question is wether we will have actual instructors joining and participating in the fitness network. Making this an Apple employee trainer only closed platform sounds boring and imposing as it is. Apple telling me how to workout is the last thing i want. membership seems to be a copy of other existing apps/smart watches including peloton.
Apple Fitness+ is set to launch on December 14, and ahead of its debut, Apple's senior director of fitness technologies Jay Blahnik did an interview with WSJ. Magazine to answer some questions about Apple's newest streaming service.
Though now is an excellent time for a home workout program, Apple has been developing Fitness+ for more than five years. Apple has recruited a total of 21 trainers after an "intensive search" where "no gym was too gritty to visit." Fitness+ syncs the Apple Watch to the Apple TV, iPad, or iPhone so you can see progress, including relative to others. "Metrics is motivation," said Blahnik of the feature.Apple Fitness+ has a robust recommendation engine to suggest workouts to people. "We always say: it shouldn't take 20 minutes to find a 20 minute workout," said Blahnik. Fitness+ suggestions will work based on the workouts that you've done, with some gentle encouragement to try other workout types.
The service is meant to be "equipment agnostic." Many of the workouts can be done with no equipment, and others, such as cycling, will work with existing equipment from many brands. It's also designed for users of all levels.Apple Fitness+ will come with a three month free trial for anyone who purchased an Apple Watch Series 6, Series 3, or SE after the September 15 launch of those devices. The service will be accessible through the Fitness app on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
Article Link: Apple's Fitness Technologies Director Jay Blahnik Talks Fitness+ Ahead of Launch
Do you really need a spotter when you're doing lunges?
OMG, yeah. This is offtopic for this thread, but yeah, Apple News is such a screwed up app/platform. If you find a link to WSJ while browsing on a Mac, you have to share the link to your iPhone, go to Safari, share that link to News, from News share that link back to your Mac. Voila, so simple /s.
Per Apple's website, you need an AW S3 or later. it will also need to be paired with an iPhone6s or later running iOS14.
But will they connect to show things like cadence? What’s missing here is any info on how that will work with other “connected” bikes. If you’re a peloton owner this isn’t anything. If you own a Schwinn IC4? And the bikes Bluetooth can connect to it the same way as it does to zwift and peloton? Game changing for Apple one subscriptions.
It would also convince me (type two diabetic who’s been waiting to upgrade my series 2 Apple Watch until there’s blood sugar integration) to at the very least buy a cheap series 3 watch for now to use this.
I’m assuming this is a Schwinn IC4. The question is will this bike connect to Apple fitness+ through gym kit? The reality is NON peloton bike owners who actually have a digital peloton membership are really the target audience for fitness+ not actual peloton bike owners.
Sure. But will you be able to do that on Apple fitness? That’s the question we don’t have an answer on.
