Apple Fitness+ gets Strava integration and new workouts

Apple is starting 2025 with a new wave of updates Apple Fitness+. This time around, the company is not only adding new content to the service’s yoga, strength training, and meditation programs, but is also offering a new integration with another popular fitness app: Strava.

If there’s any problem with Fitness+’s offerings up to this point, it’s that they cater primarily to beginners. Peak yoga poses could be one way that changes. Apple is adding yoga retreat-inspired workshops that focus on specific, challenging yoga poses like Dancer or Crow. “For each pose, there is a 10-minute onboarding flow to warm up users,” Apple says, followed by “a corresponding 10-minute practice session.” You can use the workshop to build on your skills and hopefully end up doing a tough pose in the process.

If strength training gets you up to speed, Fitness+ also gets a new three-week progressive strength training program that Apple calls “Three Perfect Weeks of Strength.” The program is divided into dozens of 30-minute exercises, with the first week focusing on “progressive overload,” the second on “time under tension,” and the third on “dynamic strength.” Apple says it designed the program to be repeatable so you can run it again with different weights as you get stronger. Don’t expect it to be as in-depth Peloton’s new strength training appBut it’s nice to have more options.

One of the most interesting new additions in this update is how Fitness+ is integrated with Strava. When you share a Fitness+ workout on Strava, the app will now show things like the Fitness+ workout you did or which trainer led it, in addition to your regular health metrics. Apple is offering Strava subscribers up to three months of Fitness+ at no additional costs in a clever bit of cross-promotion as well.

Alongside these new additions are a host of other new features, like an Intro to Breath Meditation category, a selection of workouts designed around baseball training, and a new slate of celebrity-led Apple programs. Walking time Audio stories and workout playlists focusing on Janet Jackson (on January 13), Coldplay (on January 20), Bruno Mars (on January 27), and Kendrick Lamar (on February 3).