I workout and have been doing so for last 2 decades. I mean actually workout. I have read literature and researched it extensively. This is a joke.
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Apple's Upcoming Fitness+ Service Planned Long Before Pandemic
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Apple has continued with syncing with fitness machines, as they just added Peloton to the list. Apple seems pretty committed to being involved with shaping the tech in the fitness space so they don't have to make the equipment themselves.
I don't! I never exercise and I don't think I've ever been in a gym.... For £30 a month (for the bundle) I will definitely be signing up, that way I won't be bothered by gym freaks watching everything you do and judging you (I'm sure that happens!)
I would take an easy to do set of exercises I can follow at home and also looks like fun (unlike the gym)!
I use Les Mills, have used Peloton, I will easily check this out.
Guess you have no idea how many paid fitness providers there are out there for working out at home. Some cost a lot per month.
Good for you, I like fitness classes and I like doing them at home...
This service looks rather cool, I would probably subscribe, especially due to its tie-ins with other devices and Apple Music. But... not available in my country. Why? Because it’s in English? I do understand fitness lingo including Up, Down, 1 more, Way to go and ... You’re a champion!
You are rare and are in a group that is probably less than 1% of the population. You, as a fitness consumer, are not their target.
Sadly, just working out is not going to help you maintain anything, especially since your metabolism will adapt to a higher work load. You also need to eat less. Much less. MUCH much less. Ask anybody in Biggest loser, they can't maintain their losses.
As far as I can remember, the fitness craze started in the 80s, just as the levels of obesity started to climb. So more of the same ain't gonna help. People need to regulate their eating, and fasting is the way to go.
They can work out too, exercise is always good. But it's not the deal breaker here.
So where's Apple's FastApp helping people stay on a 36:12 or another fasting schedule?
As far as I can remember, the fitness craze started in the 80s, just as the levels of obesity started to climb. So more of the same ain't gonna help. People need to regulate their eating, and fasting is the way to go.
They can work out too, exercise is always good. But it's not the deal breaker here.
So where's Apple's FastApp helping people stay on a 36:12 or another fasting schedule?
Maintain, don't gain
Why does everyone always assume that Apple creates products on a whim. I work in product development for a large company, smaller than Apple, and products are conceived atleast 1 year out, difficult ones can be 2-3 years.
Even though it's just a workout app video thing, these are made by pros and designed like TV shows with scripts and content arcs, tie in and always planning for the future, not like a one off youtube video.
Even though it's just a workout app video thing, these are made by pros and designed like TV shows with scripts and content arcs, tie in and always planning for the future, not like a one off youtube video.
I workout and run 50K's. Apple's Fitness plan is not a joke in my humble opinion. This is solid training that will appeal to many.
Until you realize not having a proper space and equipment to work out becomes a big hindrance. Trust me no "gym freak" is interested in watching you work out.
Protip: there's plenty of good, free starter routines out there, no need to waste money for this specifically.
I have a Sunny brand spin bike that I've been using with the Peloton app that I spent $200 on used. I am enjoying all the workouts on the app but find myself wanting to buy a peloton to get metrics they supply. Now with fitness+ coming out, I'm seriously considering staying with what I have. I'm going to be on the Premium Apple 1 bundle to save on family apple music and 2TB storage, so fitness+ will basically be free for me.
I exercise, but the stuff I wear: old pajama pants, ugly free T-shirts from business conventions, purple sequined slippers with suede bottoms. I can’t go to a gym dressed like that. I can’t even take the trash out dressed like that. But that’s what I’m most comfortable working out in.
I tried real fitness clothes, yeah they look cool, but you don’t know terror and claustrophobia until you’ve had your head and a shoulder trapped in a one piece sports bra (similar to what that lady in the video is wearing). You can’t just unhook the damned thing, you actually need to work out until you’re strong enough to pull it wide enough to crawl out of it so it won’t snap back and box your ears.
And the judgment is real. I took a complimentary kickboxing class once. It was a promotion offered to parents of kids enrolled in karate classes. The teacher assured me I would be fine even though I said I hadn’t exercised in years. People who are fit and active all the damned time have absolutely no memory or idea of what it’s like to try to get started on exercise after years of walking a dog and chasing after toddlers being one’s idea of exercise.
By the third round of 10 push-ups I just decided to lie comfortably face down on the mat and all those fit suburban moms who were shockingly tanned and sinewy like beef jerky looked at me with a weird mix of pity and disdain. And that was the beginning and the end of my time exercising in public.
I love Apple for this. I can’t wait, I have my yoga mat and my sequined slippers ready to go!
I actually work out too and prefer to have someone lead the class. It takes away the thinking for me, and I can just go in and compete with myself daily. I'm in better shape now than in the past 20 years and it's because of the peloton led classes. The cardio is amazing, the strength workouts are all about what you want to put into them. Works perfect for some people.
I do fine with just a yoga mat and a pair of dumbbells. I did used to work out in high school and college so I remember enough to design a series of exercises to work out different muscle groups. What I miss is having a trainer, even one on video keeping me on pace. I get distracted on my own.
I have not really liked just pulling down random You Tube videos. I’m just not good at navigating the dreck on You Tube to find what I’m looking for. Don’t forget, Apple’s specialty is making things accessible to all kinds of people. First they brought technology to the old grandmas and grandpas and the little kids. Now they’re making exercise accessible to desk jockeys and couch potatoes. We aren’t interested in proper anything. We just want to jump into our tube socks and move around really spazzy for awhile and dream of someday being fit enough for the proper stuff. Some of us will get there. Some of us will go back to sitting on our butts. Some of us will keel over.
Now I do not know what the truly devoted fitness buffs out there think of all this. I would imagine you all already have what you need and may be giving this the stink eye. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just trying to get a bit less potato.
Thats the rub. You never put the two most popular choices together. You separate them so people have to pay more. Just look at cable packages. There is always that one channel that gets you to add 4 channels of crap.
Also its worse than it initially looks as AppleTV is free for a year if you buy a device. Did they change that policy at all?
It's funny when people are up in arms about something that isn't targeted towards them?
Looking forward to trying this out and then perhaps cancelling my Peloton app subscription if it's just as good.
Looking forward to trying this out and then perhaps cancelling my Peloton app subscription if it's just as good.
Does any of that have muscle building/weight training apps? I might get myself a weight set for Christmas, considering I can't go lift weights at the Gym (Even though they just opened, but it's very limited).