Apple Fitness + launches today, and if you have an Apple Watch Series 3 or later, you can try it. The service will cost $ 9.99 a month (or $ 79.99 a year), but when you buy a watch (or update your), get a month of free access.
The idea behind it Fitness + is that you can watch a workout video on screen: your phone, iPad or Apple TV, while the system also records heart rate and other clock metrics. You can too do workouts on your iPperfect the iPad, without the watch.
How to start using Fitness +
Fitness + requires iOS 14.3, that was just came outand WatchOS 7.2, so Before you begin, check for updates on both your watch and your phone or iPad.
To open the phone’s Fitness app, formerly called Activity. (It’s the “close your rings” app you used to get automatically when you set up the Apple Watch.) You’ll see a tab at the bottom of “Fitness +” that gives you the option to sign up for the service.
On an iPad, you will need to install the Fitness app from the App Store.
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What can you do with Fitness +?
The opening screen offers you a wide variety of training options, such as HIIT, yoga, strength training, core, treadmill, cycling, dance, and “conscious recovery” workouts. There will be new workouts added weekly, Apple says. The opening screen suggests some workouts to explore (“popular”, “for beginners,“And“ easy and fast ”were on my screen.) Once you have a favorite instructor, you’ll be able to find other workouts from that person.
Each workout has a description of the type of music it includes: some examples are “upbeat anthems,” “hip-hop / R + B,” and “cold vibes.”
Some workouts use equipment. In addition to the treadmill and deck exercises, there are others that use a rowing machine or ask you to take “light and heavy weights.” There are a lot of 10-, 20-, and 30-minute workouts. The longest I could find were a few 45 minute bike and yoga workouts, and the shortest was a 5 minute cooling time.
If you like a workout, you can click “Add” and it will appear in the “My Workouts” section at the bottom of the screen. I tried some of the 10 minute workouts.
How are the workouts
As soon as you tap “Let’s” on the screen, the watch will give you a home button. The interface of the watch is the same as when you track any other workout with the Activity (now Fitness) app on the watch.
The Absolute Beginner HIIT workout lived up to the first part of its name, a gentle 30-second series of exercises that I would be happy to recommend to anyone who is completely new. (Most “HIIT” workouts you’ll see online aren’t, in fact, high-intensity intervals, and neither is this.)
I also did the first few minutes of a Reggaeton dance workout, which was easy to follow and with good moderate intensity.
A “recording bar” shows how your effort compares to other people who have done the same workout. (If you agree, the application will send you your effort level to add to the file data with which future users will be compared.) At the end of the workout, you will see the elapsed time, the calories burned, and heart rate, and you they have the option to stop doing or do one of the “conscious recovery times” of the app.
The most important thing missing from the app is the ability to browse workouts by intensity level, although each workout has a “preview” that shows you a little bit of what you’re entering. Overall, it looks like a pretty solid, albeit simple, training app.