r/AppleFitnessPlus

I have to share this because it’s been a total game-changer for my routine. For a long time, I struggled with 45-minute cycling sessions. If I’m being honest, I’d get bored/distracted halfway through, and the mental "start-up dread" of facing such a long block made it hard to even get on the bike.

Then I discovered the stack function, and it shifted everything.

Now, I stack 3-5 10-minute workouts instead of one long grind. It sounds simple, but the impact has been huge:

• The Mental Hurdle is Gone: 10 minutes feels easy to start, which kills the procrastination.
• Intensity Over Boredom: I actually find doing 4 "mini" workouts more challenging and engaging than a single 45-minute one. I’m pushing harder because the finish line is always in sight.

I’ve applied this same "think small" logic to my evenings with a 10–20 minute sleep meditation right when I hit the pillow. The data doesn’t lie—my sleep scores have never been higher! 😴

If you’ve been feeling stuck or bored with your routine, I highly recommend giving stacking a try!

Do you think any changes will be made to apple fitness plus under his leadership? Hopefully the subscription cost aren’t increasing

i enjoy high intensity stuff but AF+ HIIT feels really fast sometimes. i try to keep up but i fall behind. does anyone have tips for keeping pace without getting totally exhausted

I am 9.5 months post partum from a c-section and still very out of shape. It's been 9 months of spending a lot of time sitting on the couch or on the floor with baby. My wrists and thumbs hurt from time to time when they get fatigued from holding her. My back aches from contact naps on the recliner. I would love to get stronger to help my posture and pain as well as to be better at holding her for long periods of time and with schlepping her million pound carseat. I do also desperately need some cardio for pulmonary health.

I checked out the postpartum program but would something else be better because I'm not a freshly postpartum mom?

Any suggestions? I can't say I was in great shape pre-baby, so I'd really need to ease into it.

I've also NEVER been sure how to incrementally get stronger, I always just feel like I'm winging it. How do you know what dumbbell size to use and when to size up?

I love 3 weeks of strength. I’m getting tired of the same videos. I wish they made a secondary program. I thought about making my own from videos. Anyone already done this? Do you have suggestions??

I’m new in apple fitness+, and I want a little of help to decide what exercises do.

I do HIIT every Monday, Thursday and Friday, but I don’t know what I could do in the in-between days. I want to focused on weight loss for now, so you could recommend me exercises that are focused on that (that don’t involve external equipment)?

Hi gang, I’m hoping someone here has seen this before because Apple Support and the Apple Store haven’t been able to fix it.

The issue - the Apple Fitness app shows 0 steps and the Health app shows correct step data.

It was happening on my old iPhone 15 Pro Max and if I set it up new with no restoring data it seemed to work. If I restored from the old backup same problem.

I then moved to a new iPhone 17 Pro Max and didn't restore from backup but installed all the apps manually one by one. Initially it worked but now it's the same issue as before.

Speaking with Apple support they checked all the settings and it looked fine on the old iphone - they got me to reset network settings and permissions and that didn't change anything.

On the new iPhone tried again to talk to the support team and they tried the same reset but still nothing.

• Deleted and reinstalled the Fitness app - but no changes
• Checked settings and they appear all ok
• No Apple Watch involved
• Apple Support also ran through diagnostics and couldn’t explain it

Key symptom that seems important:

Fitness never properly registers in Health permissions.

It shows “No data found” instead of listing Steps / Walking Distance.

The current theory - something in my iCloud account or HealthKit permission database is corrupted and gets reintroduced after setup but with no obvious way to fix it.

Has anyone seen Fitness fail to register as a Health data source like this?

Is there any way to fully reset HealthKit permissions without wiping everything?

Any ideas appreciated. This one’s been going on far too long. It's one of those annoyances that I'd love to figure out.

My wife got a new phone same time as me and of course it works perfectly for her and it did before - and we can't see any obvious settings differences.

Ive been using Apple Fitness+ and like it, but I dont want a bike that also requires its own subscription, so Im looking for an exercise bike with screen no subscription that I can use alongside it. Anyone tried this kind of setup?