Apple Fitness Plus gets 'Time to Walk' feature — here's how it works

Apple Fitness Plus gets 'Time to Walk' characteristic — here'due south how it works

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Apple Fitness Plus is getting its start outdoor-compatible exercise format. Today the visitor introduced "Time to Walk," an Apple tree Watch-based audio experience that turns an ordinary walk into immersive sessions hosted by celebrities and musicians.

Until now, you needed a stationary screen to get your sweat on with Apple's new workout service. With Fourth dimension to Walk, you can have your Apple Fitness Plus experience exterior, if you'd similar. Each timed episode is available on for Apple Watch users with a Fitness Plus membership, and can be heard via Apple AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones.

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When a Time to Walk episode is selected on Apple Lookout man, a Walk conditioning launches and users can striking the sidewalk or treadmill at whatsoever pace they'd like. Unlike the Peloton App'due south outdoor running coach, which guides you on your movement for an optimal conditioning, Apple'due south take is more entertainment-focused.

In addition to audio content, complementing images will announced on your Apple tree Sentry throughout each episode. Then instead of walking to any 'ole free podcast, you'll get additional media intended to enhance the narrative of each episode's special guest.

Users will take four Time to Walk episodes to choose from: Musicians Dolly Parton and Shawn Mendes, NBA star Draymond Green and Emmy Award-winner Uzo Aduba. Apple tree has not shared how frequently new episodes will be released going forward.

According to the Time to Walk press release, episodes are downloaded automatically an to Apple Watch tied to an Apple Fitness Plus subscription, so users can start an episode from the Workout app. New episodes, which are 25 to forty minutes in length, should testify upwards in your Apple Sentry Conditioning app as they become available.

And in awesomely inclusive move, Apple Watch owners who use a wheelchair are getting Fourth dimension to Push. These users can heed to episodes during an Outdoor Wheelchair Walk Footstep workout.

In social club to use Time to Walk or Fourth dimension to Push, you'll need an active Apple Fitness Plus subscription, which costs $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year. It'southward also included in the Premium tier of Apple 1 bundles, which gets you all of Apple tree's services for a prepare $29.95 per month. Besides, when you lot become an Apple Watch 6 with any of the best Apple Lookout deals, you tin get 3 months of Apple Fitness Plus gratis.

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Kate Kozuch is a senior writer at Tom's Guide covering wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she'southward not in cyborg manner, you can find her on an practice bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army will dominion the world one day, but until then, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.