r/AppleFitnessPlus

Have anyone found simple programs or a specific trainer on Apple Fitness+ that doesn’t use equipment?

One that works for someone middle aged, very overweight and just starting out.

I know I can buy equipment but before I start doing that I want to get strength so I don’t injure myself.

If you ever been really overweight and unfit you understand that many (most) training programs created by fit people don’t work. They chose movements I can’t do and many at speed that are impossible.

Are there any tried and tested ones here?

In Apple fitness when looking at my running info I can see my running distance broken down by week month and year. However those are all based on current dates and I want to view previous. For example, I switch to month view and it shows may, but I want to view April. If I swipe it just sends me back to the overview screen.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I wish they would tone down the music in Yoga sessions. it’s on same level with trainer’s voice on some episodes which makes it harder to focus. Hope AF+ team would fix this issue.

If you really love long climbs, do not pass up Bakari's recent 45 min ride. Ep209 from this week is amazing. Two 3 minutes climbs, two 6 (!) minute climbs, one sneaky 2:45 minute climb, one sneaky 2:15 minute climb and then 4 30 second all outs and 4 45 second all outs. Not a ton of recovery and a great playlist to keep you going. Salute to Bakari, the hardest working and happiest human over at AF+. Bring your towel and your water, you will need both.

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Maybe the best AF+ program that I have done. Finished last week and just restarted it today. I am glad to see more of the programs on AF+. I am doing it in conjunction with the strength for runners plan

I’ve tried a couple of rowing workouts with Josh as a cardio warmup before the 20-30 min strength sessions and they feel not-so-warmup to me. Anything above 26 rows per minute feels quite challenging and gets my Average HR to 140+ BPMs.

I wonder if I should consider them more as cardio workout sessions (similar to HIIT) rather than warmups. If so what’s your warmup protocol before a strength session (lower/upper body)?

Just completed this program this week! I really enjoyed it. I also got my fastest 5K of the year so far mid-program.

iPhone 16 Pro / iOS 26.5; Watch S11 OS 26.5:

I'm not sure if this is a bug or by design, but...

Using Siri from my iPhone to start and stop a workout on my Watch only works the first time! My AW refuses to start any more workouts until I open the Fitness app on my iPhone and hit the checkmark in the upper right corner, effectively "acknowledging" the workout. Siri does say that she is starting the workout, but when I look at my AW, the display still shows my regular AW face, and no Workout is running. I don't want to always have to open the Fitness app on my iPhone and review or acknowledge my previous workout before I'm allowed to start another one.

Is there a way around this behavior?

The reason this is a problem for me is that I keep my AirPods connected to my phone, not my AW. So when I communicate with Siri, it's on the phone, and the phone won't start the workout until I clear (acknowledge) the prior workout from the Fitness app first.

I've recently started using Apple Fitness Plus with a plan I got Claude to write me that includes yoga, core, strength and HIIT. I am not very fit and haven’t done much exercise recently, so started doing the collections specifically tailored for beginners and have done these for quite a few weeks, but I think it is time to move on. However, I am not finding it easy to find suitable workouts - the few I’ve tried all seem significantly harder. I started by going back to the earliest workouts thinking there would be some form of progression, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. So what is the best way to go about finding suitable workouts? Searching this subreddit, I found some suggestions for yoga regarding which instructors to use, but I think it would make more sense if Fitness Plus provided some sort of grading. (Or maybe it does and I just haven’t found it.)