Apple Fitness+ usher in the new year with the biggest update ever in terms of fitness and health content. Apple’s platform, which naturally gives its all together with the Apple Watch, will integrate the updates from Monday 6 January on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Furthermore, thanks to the Watch, users can live their experience more fully and add an additional level of motivation thanks to the metrics available in real time for monitoring progress and any health risks.
Fitness+ presents first of all a new program dedicated to progressive strengthening which guides users through a process of building and maintaining strength, with a focus on efficiency. The three-week program focuses on all main muscle groups with 12 workouts of 30 minutes each: Progressive Overload, the first week, Time Under Tension, the second week) and Dynamic Power (the third week). Training for the is then introduced pickleballa close relative of tennis and padel, one of the fastest growing sports in the world, appreciated both by those who play occasionally and by those who practice it competitively. Fitness+ therefore offers a strength, resistance and agility program specifically for pickleball, with the participation of the professional champion Catherine Parenteau, number one in the world in both singles and doubles.
A session of Yoga Peak Poses
The program also arrives «Yoga Peak Poses» which offers an intimate, workshop-style experience directly to users, which can be practiced wherever they are, with attention to the form and dynamics of instruction typical of a yoga retreat. Each session is in fact dedicated to a single peak pose (a pose around which a sequence is created) – including Dancer, Big Toe, and Crow – to provide users with timing and targeted instruction to build confidence and skill.
The update also includes the introduction to breathing-based meditation: Users can choose from five 10-minute meditations, such as belly breathing, box breathing, and ocean breathing, to relax, recharge, or focus.

The series «Featured artists», which dedicates an entire workout playlist to a single artist, returns for its part with new workouts combined with the music of some of the greatest artists in the world. Among the upcoming artists arriving for this series are Janet Jackson (starting January 13), i Coldplay (from January 20th), Bruno Mars (starting Jan. 27) and headlining the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Kendrick Lamar (from February 3rd). The award-winning audio experience is also renewed «Let’s walk», available on iPhone and Apple Watch, and designed to help people walk more often by accompanying them with the confessions and reflections of some of the most interesting and influential people in the world who share anecdotes, photos and music. New episodes featuring the award-winning actor and comedian arrive from January 13th Adam Scottprotagonist of the highly anticipated second season of «Severance», premiering on January 17th exclusively on Apple TV+. This season’s other episodes feature the two-time Grammy-nominated artist and record producer Steve Aoki; the award-winning actress and producer Lana Condor; the actress and singer Tiffany Haddish; world-renowned singer, songwriter and actress Rita Ora; the Latin urban artist Daddy Yankee and actress, producer dancer Maddie Ziegler.
That’s not enough: the professional dancer, star of «So You Think You Can Dance», Alex Wongbrings his talents to Fitness+ with an exclusive workout. In a special 20-minute dance session, Wong leads motivating, high-energy routines for all fitness levels alongside other Fitness+ trainers. The Cupertino platform finally collaborates with Strava to offer a completely new integration to the experience of using the app, together with a special offer for those who are registered. Thanks to improved integration, when members share a Fitness+ workout on Strava, the app will now display detailed information – including the episode image, episode number, music genre, trainer name and the reference metrics – in order to follow their training path and share it with their community directly on Strava. New Strava subscribers, but also those who have already subscribed, can have up to three months of Fitness+ for free. Apple Fitness+ is available as a subscription service for 9.99 euros per month or 79.99 euros per year, and can be shared with up to five family members.
The main health news for Apple Watch 10
Many of the activities available on Fitness+ are possible thanks to some health news in Apple Watch Series 10launched a few months ago by Apple. Among the main ones are, for example, the new app Vital parameterswhich gives the user the opportunity to check his health status on a daily basis, monitor at a glance important values detected during sleep and easily understand when they fall outside of its typical reference range. You may receive a notification when two or more parameters are outside the typical user rangealong with a message indicating how changes in these specific parameters may be related to other aspects of the user’s life, for example, changes in altitude, alcohol consumption or medical conditions.
To generate classifications and notifications for parameters that fall outside of normal ranges, Vital Parameters uses an algorithm designed using real data derived from Apple Heart and Movement Study researchwhich aims to explore the correlation between cardiac health and physical activity.
Then there is the function training loadwhich allows you to measure how the intensity and duration of workouts affect the body over time. This is a parameter also used by those who practice sports at a competitive level or train to perfect their workout and sporting performance. Apple Watch now provides valuable metrics to understand training load, which help the user consciously calibrate their training every day, especially in preparation for an important sporting event.
With watchOS 11 the Activity rings also become even more customizable. Now the user can customize them based on the day of the week to fit their schedule. For example, if you plan to include a rest day in your training routine or simply need to take a break for a while, you can now pause the rings for a day, a week, a month or longer, without compromising your workout streak. medals won. The Fitness app on iPhone also offers the ability to customize the Summary panel.
Watch, iPhone, and iPad operating systems WatchOS 11, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 offer additional support when you indicate one state of pregnancy in the Health app to show changes in your physical and mental health during this important period. The app Cycle monitoring on the Watch it shows the gestational age and allows you to record the symptoms that are most frequently encountered during pregnancy. The Health app urges you to review and change things like the threshold for high heart rate notifications, since your heart rate tends to increase during pregnancy.
The function Everything OK (which automatically notifies a friend when the intended destination has been reached, a training session has ended or after a certain amount of time has passed) finally arrives on Apple Watch and as well as from Messages, it can also be accessed from Training app. If the user decides to go for an early morning run or spend the evening at the gym, they can launch this feature directly from the Workout app so friends and family can keep an eye on when the session ends.
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Source: Vanity Fair

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