Apple will start 2025 with a new wave of updates to Apple Fitness+. This time, the company is not only adding new content to the yoga, strength training, and meditation service programs, but also offering a new integration with another popular fitness app: Strava.
If there's any problem with Fitness+'s offerings up to this point, it's that they primarily cater to beginners. Yoga Peak Poses can be a transformative method. Apple is adding yoga retreat-inspired workshops that focus on specific, challenging yoga poses like Dancer or Crow. “For each pose, there's a 10-minute prep flow to warm users up,” Apple says, followed by a “corresponding 10-minute practice session.” You can use the workshop to build your skills and hopefully finish a tricky pose in the process.
If strength training is faster, Fitness+ also gets a new three-week progressive strength training program that Apple calls “Three Perfect Weeks of Strength.” The program is spread over a dozen 30-minute workouts, with the first week devoted to “Progressive Overload,” the second to “Time Under Tension,” and the third to “Dynamic Power.” Apple says it designed the program to be repeatable so you can run it again with different weights as you get stronger. Don't expect it to be as deep Peloton's new strength training appbut it's nice to have more options.
One of the more interesting new additions in this update is how Fitness+ will be integrated into Strava. When you share a Fitness+ workout on Strava, the app will now show things like the Fitness+ workout you did or the trainer who led it, in addition to your normal health metrics. Apple is offering Strava subscribers up to three months of Fitness+ at no extra cost with a little cross-promotion too.
Alongside these new additions is a grab bag of other new features, such as an Intro to Breath Meditation class, a selection of exercises designed around training for pickleball, a new slate of celebrity- led by Apple. Time to Walk audio stories, and workout playlists dedicated to Janet Jackson (on January 13), Coldplay (on January 20), Bruno Mars (on January 27) and Kendrick Lamar (on February 3).
