Apple doubles on Fitness + with new “Time to Walk” Apple Watch content

Apple today unveiled a new component of its Fitness + personal health subscription service: “Time to Walk.” With it, users who own an Apple Watch can do a running exercise while listening to stories or giving inspirational talks of ‘influential and interesting people’.

These conversations will be automatically downloaded to users’ Apple Watch, provided users sign in to Fitness +. When users start listening to one of the 25-40 minute episodes, the Watch will follow a Walk workout. For wheelchair users, Time to Walk is rather called ‘Time to Push’ and instead offers an Outdoor Weelchair Walk Pace workout.

The announcement states that “every time to walk episode is shaped by the guest’s personal, life-shaping moments and it contains lessons learned, meaningful memories, thoughts on purpose and gratitude, moments of vitality and other thought-provoking topics, which are recorded while walking outside or in places that are meaningful to them. “

The stories and talks obviously involve sound of the figure speaking, but Apple says that this feature will also display photos on the Apple Watch at specific times during the conversations to illustrate the stories or points.

The conversations are also followed by short playlists compiled from songs that gave the speaker ‘motivation and inspiration’.

The first Time to Walk episodes come from the following guests: country singer Dolly Parton, NBA player Draymond Green, musician Shawn Mendes and actor Uzo Aduba. New deliveries are issued every Monday “until the end of April.”

The announcement comes with this statement from Jay Blahnik, Apple’s senior director of Fitness Technologies:

Walking is the most popular physical activity in the world, and one of the healthiest things we can do for our body. A walk can often be more than just exercise: it can help clear the mind, solve a problem or welcome a new perspective … Even during this challenging period, career is one for many who are available . With Time to Walk, we bring weekly original content to Apple Watch in Fitness + that includes some of the most diverse, fascinating and celebrated guests that provide inspiration and entertainment to help our users move through the power of walking.

Experts and organizations such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend that people get 150 minutes a week of medium-intensity exercise, which for some people may include walking, but many Americans get nowhere near that.

Personal technology products such as smartphones and smart watches have become increasingly part of the fight against the problem in the United States and elsewhere. Apple launched Apple Fitness + in December – its first health-oriented subscription. There are also numerous third-party apps in the iOS and Android app stores that offer similar content and features, and many other big tech companies have also tried to abandon personal health.

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