Apple Fitness+ includes integration with Strava and new workouts.
Apple is updating Fitness+ with new advanced yoga pose workshops, a three-week strength training program, and a more comprehensive option for sharing workout routines.
Apple has kicked off the year 2025 with a series of updates for Apple Fitness+. This time, the company not only adds new content to its yoga, strength training, and meditation programs but also introduces an integration with another popular fitness app: Strava.
So far, Fitness+ has mainly targeted beginners, but the inclusion of Yoga Peak Poses could be a significant change. Apple has developed workshops inspired by yoga retreats that focus on specific and challenging poses, such as the Dancer or the Crow. Each pose will feature a 10-minute preparation flow to warm up users, followed by an additional 10-minute practice session. This approach allows participants to enhance their skills and, hopefully, achieve complex poses.
For those more interested in strength training, a new three-week progressive program titled "Three Perfect Weeks of Strength" has been added. This program is divided into a dozen 30-minute workouts, where the first week focuses on "Progressive Overload," the second on "Time Under Tension," and the third on "Dynamic Power." Apple has designed this routine to be repetitive, allowing users to perform it again with different weights as they become stronger. Although it does not offer as much depth as Peloton's new strength training app, it represents an additional option in the market.
One of the most interesting additions in this update is the integration with Strava. By sharing a Fitness+ workout on Strava, the app will display not only the usual health data but also details such as the type of workout performed and the trainer who led it. Additionally, Apple is cleverly promoting its service by offering Strava subscribers up to three months of Fitness+ at no extra cost.
Accompanying these new features, other functions have been introduced, such as an introductory breath meditation class, workouts designed for pickleball training, and a new series of auditory stories for Time to Walk led by Apple celebrities. There are also workout playlists featuring artists like Janet Jackson (on January 13), Coldplay (on January 20), Bruno Mars (on January 27), and Kendrick Lamar (on February 3).