April 21, 2022
Update
Apple Fitness+ gives users “permission to dance” with its new Artist Spotlight series, curated dance exercises, and more
In the lead up to International Dance Day, Fitness+ is introducing a new dance group, a limited edition prize, and a special artist spotlight featuring hit songs and popular moves from BTS videos.
This spring, Apple Fitness+, the first fitness and wellness service built entirely around the Apple Watch and designed to welcome everyone, celebrates music and dance with a new lineup of world-renowned musicians from the Artist Spotlight and curated dance content in the run-up to World Day. To dance on April 29th. New Artist Spotlight sessions, which will be presented this week, will include music from ABBA, BTS, and Queen. In addition, new dance content will be available next week, including a special Spotlight Dance artist exercise featuring iconic music and choreography from BTS, a limited-edition International Dance Day prize, and a new “Get into a Groove with Dance” exercise set.
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The Fitness + Artist Spotlight series returns on April 18 with pop legends ABBA, global K-pop phenomenon BTS, and rock icons Queen. The series dedicates an entire workout playlist to one artist, and this week, users can dance to ABBA, sweat BTS to a HIIT workout, or do Queen’s strength workout. Every Monday for four weeks, new workouts will appear for each Fitness+ artist across different types of exercise, including Strength, HIIT, Dance, Treadmill, Cycling, Yoga and Pilates. Previous Artist Spotlight rehearsals have included music by Alicia Keys, The Beatles, Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj, Pharrell Williams, Shakira, and more.
Inspired by these Fitness + workouts, Apple Music and Apple One subscribers can enjoy the Fitness + Spotlight series, which features a unique playlist of each individual musician from the Artist Spotlight, including high-energy motivational tracks from their entire catalogs, as well as collaborations and remixes of Keeping people moving outside of Fitness + exercises.
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Globally, dancing is one of the most popular and enjoyable ways to stay active. It is also a type of exercise on the Apple Watch with an algorithm that can capture accurate calorie effort even with the unique challenges of measuring body movements to the different arm typical with dancing, and it has been a major type of exercise for Fitness+ since its launch. Starting April 25th, Fitness+ celebrates dancing all week long.
Fitness + trainer Ben Allen will participate in the first-ever dance workout session on BTS music. The movements in this exercise are taken directly from the choreography of BTS videos. Songs include “Butter (feat. Megan Thee Stallion),” “Dynamite,” “Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey),” “DNA,” “MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix),” “Permission to Dance,” and Life continues.” Also that week, LaShawn Jones’s Dance exercise will inspire users to move to songs that bring a sense of joy, and Jhon Gonzalez will invite users to dance to tracks that celebrate traditional and powerful rhythms from various genres, including cumbia, tango and Indian pop.
On International Dance Day, Apple Watch users around the world are encouraged to find time to have fun, and can win a limited-edition prize and animated message stickers for completing any dance workout of 20 minutes or more. Fitness+ will feature a special section of Dance Workouts to help subscribers win the prize, including six 20-minute workouts across Latin Grooves, Upbeat Anthems, Throwback Hits, and Hip-Hop/R&B playlists.
Fitness+ is also unveiling a new workout set on April 25 designed to entice subscribers to dance any day of the year. Getting into Groove with Dance starts with three 20-minute workouts from each trainer from Fitness + Dance instructors to Stepping into the Dance Floor. Participants will gain confidence with short routines before progressing to a Take Center Stage with three 30-minute performance-based workouts. Rehearsals include 80s classics, hip-hop, and Latin music from around the world. The kits, introduced in January, are a series of workouts and meditations from an organized Fitness + library to help users achieve their goals.
In addition to all the new dance content coming to Fitness+ in April, there are already plenty of ways for subscribers of all ages and skill levels to get into dancing, from a program for beginners to workouts for seniors.
About Apple Fitness
Apple Fitness+ is an award-winning fitness and wellness service powered by Apple Watch designed to welcome everyone, wherever they are on their journey, and to help users live a healthier day. Subscribers can access the largest library of 4K Ultra High Definition exercise content with studio-style workouts and meditations, all led by a diverse and comprehensive team of coaches. Fitness+ also has training programs with customized content designed to help users through a season of life or prepare for important moments, and the Artist Spotlight Series with complete playlists of world-renowned music artists, and groups, which includes curated content from the Fitness+ library to help users pursue their goals. Fitness+ helps users train their bodies and minds with a uniquely customized and engaging experience that can be done anytime, anywhere, intelligently integrating exercise metrics from Apple Watch directly on the screen, and motivating users from start to finish with music from today’s top artists. With Fitness+, users can also move through inspiring audio experiences including Time to Walk, featuring some of the world’s most interesting and impactful people, and Time to Run, designed to help users become more consistent and better runners. Apple Fitness + is available in English with subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. More information is available at apple.com/apple-fitness-plus.
Pricing and availability
- Fitness + is available as a subscription service for $9.99 (US) per month or $79.99 (USA) per year.
- Fitness+ is included in the Apple One Premier plan, which, where available, also gives customers access to Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, and iCloud+ with 2TB of storage for $29.95 (US) per month, and can be shared between six family members.
- Fitness + is available at AustraliaAnd AustriaAnd BrazilAnd CanadaAnd ColombiaAnd FranceAnd GermanyAnd IndonesiaAnd IrelandAnd ItaliaAnd MalaysiaAnd MexicoAnd New ZealandAnd PortugalAnd RussiaAnd Kingdom Saudi ArabiaAnd SpainAnd SwitzerlandThe The United Arab EmiratesThe United kingdomand the we.
- Three months of Apple Fitness+ is included for customers who purchase Apple Watch Series 3 or later, and one month of Fitness+ is included for existing Apple Watch users.
- Fitness+ can be shared between up to six family members for the same price, making it easier for other Apple Watch users in the same home to enjoy the service.
- Fitness + Apple Watch Series 3 or later requires watchOS 7.2, available when paired with an iPhone 6s or later with iOS 14.3.
- For the latest features, use Fitness+ with Apple Watch Series 3 or later with watchOS 8.3, paired with iPhone 6s or later with iOS 15.2; iPad with iPadOS 15.2; or Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD with tvOS 15.2.
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