Fitness+Apple’s guided workout service debuts new features, including guided meditation to help sleep, new music with Beyoncé, new walks (time to walk) with actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Siegel or chef José Andrés and new trainers.
Manzana has been adding new trainers, new activities and new features to the service since its launch in December 2020. Fitness+ allows you to exercise at home, or anywhere else, with video guides that can be viewed from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. All this combined with the apple watch to monitor activity during training, although using it is no longer a requirement as it was before.
New guided meditations to sleep in Fitness+
Almost as important as exercising are recovery and rest times. In times where we are hyperconnected, with screens in front of our eyes all day, disconnecting and sleeping is sometimes complicated.
That is why Fitness+ incorporates, starting next Monday, January 9, new meditation routines to help us relax and fall asleep a little more easily. To this end, a new introductory guide is also introduced with four twenty-minute programs that conclude with five minutes of relaxing music.
The new sleep meditation program is a perfect example of how you can visualize your iPhone—already in bed—as a guide to enter a relaxation phase and thus sleep better. You can even listen to audio only from the Apple Watch.
The new sleep meditation programs are available on Fitness+ starting January 9.
new episodes of time to walk with chef José Andrés, Jamie Lee Curtis and more celebrities
time to walk is a series of podcasts optimized for hiking. The idea is to feel that, while you are walking, you are in a conversation with an interesting, well-known and influential person.
Apple will add a list of new people to this activity, including chef José Andrés, Jamie Lee Curtis (True Liesthe saga of Halloween), Jason Segel (how I Met Your Mother), Nina Hoss (tar), Colman Domingo (Euphoria), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott College), among others.
This will be the fifth season of time to walk, so there’s a large catalog of podcasts already available on Fitness+ to listen to while on long walks. One of the most popular episodes is with Prince William, which Apple has made free for anyone, even if they don’t have a subscription to the service. All the new content in the series is also available from January 9th.
Kickboxing and new trainers
Fitness+ it also introduces kickboxing as a cardiovascular exercise that works the entire body. No additional equipment is needed, and it consists of sessions of 10, 20 and 30 minutes. The activity will be led by two new trainers: Jamie-Ray Hartshorne and Nez Dally.
Together with the two of them, two new trainers join Fitness+. Brian Cochrane for HIIT activities and Jenn Lau for strength activities.
Finally, new exercises are added that dedicate all the music to a single artist. One of them is Beyoncé, including songs from her latest album, Renaissance. Her music will be available in activities like cycling, dancing, HIIT, pilates, strength, treadmill, and yoga. Also available, starting January 18, is Foo Fighters and Bad Bunny on January 23.
Fitness+ is available for a subscription of €9.99 per month or €79.99 per year in Spain. In Mexico it is 149 pesos a month or 899 pesos a year. The service offers a free 3-month trial when you buy an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, or Apple TV. Otherwise, you can access a one-month trial. The service, at the moment, only has content in English, but offers subtitles in Spanish.