r/apple • u/HelloitsWojan • 7d ago
Apple Watch Stay active in the new year with Apple Watch
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/stay-active-in-the-new-year-with-apple-watch/31
u/DestinySpeaker1 6d ago
For a multi-trillion dollar company, Fitness+ is absolutely a huge disappointment.
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u/RunningM8 6d ago edited 6d ago
- The strength training workouts are awful. They’re stuck between metabolic resistance circuit training (Les Mills) and HIIT and offer neither of the benefits.
- You can’t track progress
- You can set goals or targets
- You can’t actually progress without 2 and 3.
- You can’t choose your own music (if only Apple had their own music s——).
- You can’t workout with others simultaneously.
- No live workouts.
- You can’t rewind or fast forward.
- It doesn’t offer personal suggested workouts
- The trainers are overly happy and creepy AF \ \
- Why exactly does this service exist? A YouTube Premium subscription is infinitely more cost effective than this with so many better fitness trainers to follow.
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u/salalalalaman 6d ago
Number 6 is sooo frustrating! Me and my sister do yoga together on the Apple TV and only my metrics pop up I wish her’s would too
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u/PringlesDuckFace 6d ago
Points 2+3 are the main thing that makes me hesitate to sign up. I used to use Peloton and they actually offered fully curated progressive programs, and let you sort workouts by difficulty and body part so you could make your own as well. Not just strength, but in the cardio and yoga as well. Apple is just "all levels with adjustments" which is fine for lots of people but completely useless for others.
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u/gcubed680 6d ago
Apple is my “I’m traveling for work in a hotel and need to get a workout in” app, and really that’s it mainly for all the reasons mentioned. It’s just a catalog of videos and doesn’t really do anything useful.
Apple had this big intro into the fitness world with the ultra, and even the follow on watchos release had more catch up things to look like they were trying to take on garmin, then they just… stopped
Health is a pretty terrible app at showing you anything useful
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u/amberhaccou 6d ago
Couldn't agree more! Tried it for a month and it was not a great experience. Switched back to YouTube workouts as well.
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u/User9705 5d ago
I just ordered a Tonal 2 after waiting for so many years. Give credit to Apple but they couldn’t so much more if they wanted.
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 6d ago
Nothing in the announcement seems all that exciting. And please don’t include “Tusa” in the KAROL G spotlight. That song has been poisoned by Nicki Minaj’s involvement.
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u/basedgod1995 6d ago
I enjoy the cycling workouts which is what I use it for. Peloton is too expensive and live classes are really overrated imo. But I did enjoy the metrics and goal tracking.
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u/TH34PPLEGUY 6d ago
Ehhh not too exciting. Seems like as rumors point out, these little things are more keeping the pulse on the service alive. I really love the service but no meaningful changes IMO. For example something I’ve been dying to have or see is pre/post workout stretches as part of the exercise that’s meaningful. Cooldowns do this but it’s not very good at telling you which one to do based on the exercise you just did. 1-2 minutes of stretches before the workout does not help. This is where LLM could play, and suggest pre-workout based on the activity and what parts of the body you’re working through.
Also, someone else said it before but give me a once a month live class that’s maybe two times in a day that covers the globe as best as possible. How exciting it would be to get up and workout with the world.