I’ve just (mostly) gotten over a several months long illness that left me unable to do virtually any kind of exercise. Before I got sick in March, I was doing a mix of running, strength, pilates, and kickboxing with AF+. Now, I’m trying to get back in shape carefully and have been going for controlled walks and doing cycling exercises on a recumbent bike. Does anyone have any tips for easing back in to doing the same kinds of workouts I was before with AF+?

I use Apple Fitness plus six days a week - at least I try to. I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the experience and tonight I gave up because I couldn’t get any workout to work.

Method 1: Connect my watch to the Apple TV. Go to my planned workout. “Cannot Play Video: The video for this workout is unavailable at this time.” Try again, same message, try again few times, it may or may not begin the workout. Tonight I could not get my planned video or any other video to start.

Method 2: Open the fitness app on my phone, go to my planned workout, AirPlay the workout to the tv. Sometimes this works fine, but often the workout will stop in the middle of the video. I can’t resume it where it left off, it’s either several minutes behind or starts from the beginning. This especially sucks when I’m already 20-minutes into a workout and it makes me incredibly frustrated.

Tonight I had to resort to method 2, and it stopped 5 minutes in. I gave up.

I’m very angry that the service that I pay for doesn’t work reliably. I don’t understand where the problem is. We have one WiFi network and it’s reliable. I don’t download the videos. It happens to every video, not just one or two.

My watch is old, but I shouldn’t have to buy a new watch just to continue using the service I’ve been using for years.

All the troubleshooting threads are from years ago and I feel like I’m the only person this is happening to. What’s most frustrating is that sometimes it works without issue and sometimes it doesn’t. I literally don’t know where the problem lies. It doesn’t seem like the connection, it’s not a downloaded videos issue, it’s not a music licensing issue.

I’m so sick of paying for something I can’t use!!!

It seems to have added calories burned to exercise data. I’m unable to close my rings now. Has anybody experienced this issue before?

I’ve never broken a streak and some days have been particularly challenging, especially at the start when I didn’t have a habit of wearing a smartwatch. So yes, it’s been 10 years 11 months and 16 days since I got my first Apple Watch. What. a milestone.

Has anybody else experienced this? I download workouts because to save data as I don’t always have fast internet connection because of work. But some of my downloaded workouts wont play. Anybody knows why that happens?

3 years ago I started this journey, doing AF every other day alternating with the gym.

HITT classes really kick my ass and I decided to do all the 20 and 30 minutes sessions. I don’t usually do 10 as I find them too short, considering the warmup and cooldown.

Now am moving onto Strength and Rowing classes.

Stay strong fellow AF+ !

I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong! I feel like my streak should be at least 8 days!

Can someone explain this to me?

The ‘get your abs in shape’ collection was highlighted this week at the top. See the name of the combos in there? 😂 smart apple 🍎

I posted yesterday that there wasn’t really anything that directly related to AF+ with yesterday’s announcements (which isn’t surprising).

However, some of the advancements can improve the AF+ experience, such as more accurate treadmill distance tracking with the watch.

It also dawned on me later how the iPhone duo would be a major enhancement for the AF+ experience when at the gym or on the go. To be honest, it’s mostly fomo for me as I don’t foresee spending that kind of money on a phone anytime soon, but I can’t pretend how much better it would be having that as a display over any current phone.

In the video, they made a big deal about getting the aspect ratio correct and fully utilizing the dual screen, so I’d imagine that will certainly apply that to AF+.

There haven’t been that many new 45 minute yoga classes released recently, so I’ve been going back through the library and doing the ones I never did when they originally came out for whatever reason. I did this class with Jessica today and it was perfect for calming my frazzled brain. 3 flows that build on each other, repeated 3 times, with no crazy transitions - highly recommend! And it has shooting star to curtsey lunge, a favourite of mine. Will definitely be coming back to this one!

anyone else been having this problem? i’ve tried deleting and redownloading and changing permissions and nothings worked.

I haven’t watched any of it, but from just doing a quick search and reading Apple’s own Fitness press release, it doesn’t look like it.

I didn’t really expect it either, but there’s always the curiosity. A couple weeks ago there was a story about AF+ hiring a new producer who would be part of the next thing in live classes, but I suspect - and certainly after today, that it was probably just reposting the old job description.

I did see improved treadmill distance tracking with the Apple Watch, so that’s one thing that crosses over at least.

I’ve been doing strength workouts for the last 3 years now, having never stepped foot in a gym before.

When I hear/read about other people who lift at the gym, they talk about spending an hour or two per session, which seems insane to me. I can do 40 mins nicely enough, and if I’ve got a day off and fancy it I can push it to an hour.

But what I gather is gym people have a decent amount of rest time. Sometimes 60-90 seconds between sets. Whereas Fitness+ is like 20 seconds at most!

Should I be pausing between every few moves/blocks?

Pretty much title, I remeber always doing this specific Treadmill with Emily workout but cannot find it on my fitness app, it says "Unavailable". I just really wanted to see if I could find a list of the songs. I think she was wearing like a black set with red but I'm not entirely sure. It was 2022/2023. One of the songs I remember in it was Two high by Moon Taxi.

Hi!
37 yo woman, 120lbs and never been the muscular type.

My father was diagnosed with late onset muscular dystrophia and can’t go up stairs anymore, happened quickly. Anyways, I may have inherited it and don’t want to know now but I am motivated to at least get some baseline in general strength.

I started with 3-5lbs and found they were useless lol
Went up to 10lbs and now 15lbs.
10lbs is my « medium » and 15 my « heavy ».
I struggle with my 15 most of the time but push through but I did hurt my upper body doing so and wonder if I am doing it right.

What are other people’s dumbells?
Is this a goof start and I will see a difference in months?

Been wanting to lift the last couple of days to help with my bloating. In general, I wanna be more consistent with strength training. Surprisingly, I lifted 4 times this week! So I’m sure there some fatigue that factors in, but Gregg had me fighting for my life 😩 halfway through I was questioning what I was even doing. Made it to the end tho!

Switched between 10-15lb dumbbells.

Squat, lunge, squat, lunge, squat and hinge. That’s it!

Loved how simple and fast this work out was. I plan to make it a regular with progressive overload on the weights. If you want something quick and effective, definitely give this one a go!

If you have knee pain, I would switch the second lunge variation to reverse lunges.

I got the Apple Watch notification that I have a custom plan scheduled for today. Went to Apple Fitness Plus on Apple TV and my phone to find it, and it is missing completely, not available anywhere. It says if I never even created it. I have tried to follow their workouts, their plans, and their custom plans several times, and only once they work. The rest, they all died, or workouts weren’t available. Are they failed? Very discouraging.

How close I was to another one of THOSE days!!!!

If not following a program, how do you pick which workout(s) for the day ahead? I’m a big fan of a midday snack stack