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Apple Refreshes Fitness+ With Four Habit‑Building Programs Starting Jan. 5

Apple leans on Apple Watch study data to keep users exercising past Quitter’s Day.

Overview

  • Three new multi‑week plans debut January 5—Make Your Fitness Comeback, Build a Yoga Habit in 4 Weeks, and Back‑to‑Back Strength and HIIT—with Strength Basics in 3 Weeks arriving January 12.
  • Make Your Fitness Comeback schedules three 10‑minute sessions weekly across Strength, HIIT, and Yoga, while Back‑to‑Back pairs 10 minutes of Strength with 10 minutes of HIIT three times a week for three weeks.
  • Artist Spotlight adds KAROL G workouts on January 5 and introduces Bad Bunny sessions in February tied to his Apple Music Super Bowl halftime appearance.
  • Time to Walk returns with new episodes from January 19 featuring Penn Badgley, Mel B, and Michelle Monaghan.
  • Motivation tools include a limited‑edition Ring in the New Year award and a StravaQuit Quitting” challenge that grants a badge for logging 12 workouts in January; Fitness+ costs $9.99 per month and shows on‑screen metrics with Apple Watch.