The fitness plus announcement was super exciting to me because I’m an apple fan through and through and I’m always excited to go further into the eco system. I liked the idea of a fitness app that would integrate automatically with my watch, show me my workout stats in real time and automatically track my workouts. The fact that it costs £9.99 / $9.99 a month as well put my expectations sky high. For 9.99 every month, I expected…the world and got…well…not that.
When you first Use the app, it has to find your watch (obviously)
It couldn’t find mine because my watch OS wasn’t up to date, so I had to update it and try again
I signed up for a free trial and got ready for my first workout. First of all the studio set up was very jarring - maybe I’m used to cleaner aesthetics for workouts and considering that this an Apple product, I would have expected that from them. Instead, there was a brick wall in a dark room with disco lights. I decided to try a dance class. I’m not sure why because dance classes are really not my workout jam and I’m wildly unco-ordinated on the best of days, but I just wanted something easy. It was fun to see my stats on screen for the first few minutes but after a while, I was like meh. Because the workout wasn’t engaging enough for me, looking at my stats just made me clock watch. In the middle of the workout, I switched the timer to show me how much time I had spent instead of how much time I had left, which helped a little. I started the workout from the fitness plus app and it did track automatically which was good.
I did a strength workout as well and again- it wasn’t the best workout I’ve done.
The next day, I went on the app and repeatedly got an error message. My lack of enthusiasm about the app from the day before made me give up on it and that was the end of my fitness plus journey.
The Plus
It integrates with your Apple Watch and has machine options like treadmill and bike workouts.
The minus
It’s expensive. For a much lower monthly fee, you can sign up for YouTube premium, get YouTube music for free with that and download or stream a muuuuch wider range of workouts.
The quality of the workouts aren’t great. I only tried two workouts and new workouts are constantly getting added, so this opinion was formed off the back of those two workouts.
Have you tried fitness plus or are you thinking of trying it?