If you are looking to exercise but do not want to go to a gym to the different classes it offers, Apple brings them to your devices in the ecosystem. With the arrival of Fitness + you will have a service focused on sports with videos of professional trainers. In this post we tell you everything you need to know about this service.
What is Apple Fitness +
The Cupertino company introduced on September 15, 2020 a new exercise service called Fitness +. With this, different trainings are offered to users and can be broadcast throughout the ecosystem. In a summarized way, the service offers several videos with professional trainers who give you instructions on how to do a specific exercise. In short, you will have a personal trainer on the screen of your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV that you must follow in its instructions. It is about obtaining an experience very similar to the one you have when you go to a gym to exercise.
Need to have an Apple Watch
One of the requirements that must be met to use this service is to have an Apple Watch placed on the wrist. It is necessary to be able to monitor the heart rate or the calories that are burned. The positive side is that you should never be looking at the clock to query this data as it is transferred to the screen of the device you are using to view your workouts. This means that on the screen of the iPhone, iPad or Apple TV you will have the information of everything you are doing. This representation can be made through the now classic rings as well as numerical information with the heart rate and the elapsed time. It should be noted that it is necessary to have an Apple Watch Series 3 or higher .
In addition to having an Apple watch to be able to perform all the exercises, in some it will also be necessary to have specific equipment. Obviously at all times you can choose the training you want to do, being able to do a workout that does not require equipment only with your Apple Watch or those that use an exercise bike or a treadmill among other Fitness tools.
Variety of exercises and new app
There are many exercises that are available within this service. In all of them you will find a wide range of videos that are focused both on those users who are beginners when it comes to exercising or if you are already a veteran. Obviously, in this sense, the hardness with which the instructor will arrive at the training through the videos that are available will vary. Specifically, the exercises that are currently available in the service are the following:
- Treadmill hike.
- HIIT.
- Running on a treadmill.
- Rowing.
- Dance.
- Cycling.
- Yoga.
- ABS.
- Strength.
- Cool down (when stretching exercise is over).
Choosing the type of exercise you want to do is not done from the Activity application. Apple has developed a new app called ‘Fitness’ where all the video display management will be carried out. In this you can choose the training time you want to do as well as your favorite coach and the music you want to play in the background to set your pace. Once you have made all these initial adjustments, you can proceed to start training. It should be taken into account that the coaches themselves also specialize in choosing the music that best goes with the training that is going to be carried out. In the event that you are subscribed to Apple Music you can save all these lists for yourself.
The application will learn from the workouts you are doing to intelligently offer you the most recommended for you. In this sense, you will progress in a level of difficulty in certain types of training if you start with the simplest, since the app will propose new challenges.
Country availability
At its launch Apple Fitness + will be available only in Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Its arrival is scheduled for the end of 2020 without yet having an established date that will be revealed with the passage of time. The rest of the countries for now will have to wait for a worldwide implementation. Apple is surely exploring the possibility of doubling the trainings so that they can be available in different countries. Although if we are frank, the truth is that the language when it comes to following a video coach may not be vital for it to be dubbed delaying the launch of this service.
Contract price
As we say, at the end of 2020 this service will be available but its price in the US is known. This price may be transferred without variations from dollars to euros when it ends up arriving in the different European countries. Two subscription plans are included that have the following prices:
- 9.99 euros per month.
- 79.99 euros per year.
This subscription can be shared with 5 other people within the family that you have created or save money with it by contracting the Apple One packages. In addition, Apple offers a free month for all those users who have an Apple Watch in their possession to try the service, and those who buy a new Apple Watch will be included a free period of 3 months.
