My favourite trainer is Kym Perfetto, a high-energy pink-haired former Soulcycle instructor with her own YouTube channel, who has also appeared on the Amazing Race. My favourite workouts, however, were the cycling classes, which I did at my gym on their stationary bikes. The exercises were simple and had back-up trainers in the videos giving you slightly easier options to do if you were new to it, or couldn’t quite do the full workout. I worked up a sweat and felt like I’d had a good workout after both. ![]() Josh Taylor after a cycling session with trainer Kym Perfetto.Īt home in my apartment living room with my gym mat, an Apple TV, a water bottle and a cat that wouldn’t leave me alone, I tried a couple of different HIIT workouts, between 10 and 20 minutes long. Getting set up, I initially struggled to get the app to pair with my watch, a major issue that required several attempts and resets to resolve. The app will recommend workouts similar to ones you have done in the past, as well as ones you might be interested in trialling. It gives you a wide variety of options and difficulty levels, letting you start out with basics, then work your way up. I also realised doing both would be an unworkable number of workouts in a short amount of time, unless I never wanted to be able to move again.įitness+ is a better browsing experience. Watching videos on YouTube made it easy to give up halfway through, when a trainer proposes a ridiculously complex move that is not designed for a tall person in a small apartment, or when for some reason they forgo a break between sets. I was initially going to attempt to do an alternating day-by-day comparison between free YouTube workout videos and the Apple Fitness+ workouts for a week, but I found it difficult to find workouts on YouTube that I liked. Big smiles, very energetic, way too excited to be there. Group fitness classes always seem like a bit of a cult to me, and given it’s Apple – the company where staff in stores collectively clap the new iPhone buyers on launch day – the fact that this vibe is also found in the workout videos is no great surprise. In some parts, the trainers push you to work harder or faster based on the beat of the music. There’s also a “burn bar” for competitive motivation, where you can see how you’re tracking against other people who did the same workout.Įach video is paired with an Apple Music playlist and frequently the trainers refer to the songs during the workout, making it feel much more integrated than background music. Your heart rate, timer, kilojoules burned and how you’re tracking against your rings are all displayed on the screen as you go. ![]() While you work out, it uses the heart monitor and other tracking tools from the watch to keep track of your efforts. They range from about 10 to 45 minutes long, and can be watched on a phone, iPad or Apple TV. That $14.99 per month gives you access to a wide range of workout videos, from running to cycling and rowing, to HIIT classes, yoga and core workouts. Buying all that tech at once would cost about $2,000. If you want to watch it on your TV, you’ll need an Apple TV too, since unfortunately there’s no Chromecast compatibility yet. You’ll need an iPhone or iPad that can run iOS 14.3 and an Apple Watch that can run WatchOS 7.2. Photograph: Josh Taylor/The Guardianįitness+ is suited to people already deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem. ‘Close your rings’ – the mantra that kept Josh Taylor moving through lockdown is taken to the next level with Fitness+.
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