Apple Fitness+ playlists featured in Apple Music search

Apple is promoting Fitness+ in Apple Music, by adding a collection of playlists created for the workout subscription to the music-streaming app created by the trainers.

Part of the Apple Fitness+ service is its close integration with Apple Music, with the former using music that can be listened to on the latter. To show off this integration, Apple has added the ability to easily find Fitness+ playlists within Apple Music.

A new Browse category has been added to Apple Music's search page titled Fitness, which contains a large number of fitness-related playlists. As well as including existing playlists that could be used for working out, the category also includes a section titled "Apple Fitness+ Studio Series."

This section contains a selection of playlists, with each representing a different style of music or intended for a type of exercise. Regularly updated and curated by Apple Music editors and the Fitness+ trainers, the playlists range from a dance and electronic music-based list for rowing to country music for running, to a chill-out playlist for yoga.

Launched in December, Fitness+ is Apple's subscription service providing workouts, one which relies on data from a user's Apple Watch to monitor their progress. As well as providing on-demand workout sessions, the service also creates playlists for each individual workout, which can be listened to within Apple Music.

Apple Fitness+ costs $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year, and can be used as part of the Apple One subscription. Existing Apple Watch users can take advantage of a one-month free trial, with three months offered for customers buying an Apple Watch Series 3 or later.

13 Comments

GeorgeBMac 11421 comments · 8 Years

About 3 years ago

I've really been enjoying Fitness+ on my Apple TV. It may even replace the $2,000/year Sports Performance training I'd been receiving from a local health system.

I've been using it supplement the home workouts I'd been doing during the virus lockdowns. But I don't think it can fully replace my targeted workouts. So adding fitness workouts to Apple Music is a very nice addition to Apple Music. I just wish they would provide an option to block rap like they do to block explicit music. Personally, I find rap and its newer variations to be just irritating (endless Ka-Thump, Ka-Thump, Ka-Thump in monotone) and I don't want to be bothered to interrupt a workout to skip such irritating "songs" (I put songs in quotes because songs implies music and rap is not music by any definition that I use).

equality72521 184 comments · 12 Years

About 3 years ago

GeorgeBMac said:

I've really been enjoying Fitness+ on my Apple TV. It may even replace the $2,000/year Sports Performance training I'd been receiving from a local health system.

I've been using it supplement the home workouts I'd been doing during the virus lockdowns. But I don't think it can fully replace my targeted workouts. So adding fitness workouts to Apple Music is a very nice addition to Apple Music. I just wish they would provide an option to block rap like they do to block explicit music. Personally, I find rap and its newer variations to be just irritating (endless Ka-Thump, Ka-Thump, Ka-Thump in monotone) and I don't want to be bothered to interrupt a workout to skip such irritating "songs" (I put songs in quotes because songs implies music and rap is not music by any definition that I use).

Absolutely 100% agree with all of this.

bestkeptsecret 4285 comments · 13 Years

About 3 years ago

I wonder what dictates the roll-out of this to other countries. It seems like a service that is 100% controlled by Apple, unlike Apple News+ and iBooks (as far as content is concerned) and it doesn't seem like a service that needs some kind of clearance from the Government.
Yet, unlike Apple TV+, it is only available in a few countries.

GeorgeBMac 11421 comments · 8 Years

About 3 years ago

It seems Apple is rolling this fitness app out at just about the right time. From the BBC:

Covid exercise: 'I'll never go back to the gym again'

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55210452

For myself, I've found a lot more people out on the trails and in the parks than previously. And, there are more stories about cities creating new bike lanes

As I was growing up there are lots of science fiction stories out about how the human race was going to evolve into giant brains with tiny, atrophied limbs since machines did all the work. But, we a learning that that's not how it works: the human body was not designed for sitting, it was designed for moving. Constant moving from morning till night.

But, certainly machines doing the manual labor will be a bigger part of our future -- so exercise will need to also be a bigger part.

But, we need to evolve our understanding of exercise from today's "150 minutes of exercise" to realize that we need multiple forms of exercise (especially as we age). We need to understand that just walking or only doing yoga is better than doing nothing, but it is isn't enough. I think Apple's Fitness+ along with its Apple Watch Fitness app can be a big part of helping that growth along.

Rayz2016 6957 comments · 8 Years

About 3 years ago

Enjoying it so far, but I would like some way to control the music volume, or mute it completely, for the yoga stuff.