Bulk up with Apple Fitness+ new Gym Strength workout planner

Apple is now catering towards gym users, with Apple Fitness+ adding a new Gym Strength feature that plans workouts to your schedule that will help at your local fitness center.

Apple Fitness+ is usually intended for home workouts and occasional outdoor walks and runs, with exercises requiring little equipment other than an Apple Watch and a device screen. A new feature will change that, enabling it to help those with access to gym equipment.

Gym Strength, arriving in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, can create personalized workouts for users with either access to a public gym or their own home workout space. Just so long as they have some form of gym equipment they can use.

It can create four-week plans that change over time to work up to your fitness goals. Whatever rep counts and weights you manage on your first week informs what Gym Strength will tell you to do the following week.

You can build the plans based on the number of sessions per week you can manage, as well as the body sections you want to pay particular attention to with workouts. Each workout can consist of five exercises or seven exercises, lasting up to an hour in total.

The app will recommend what exercises to do, including how many reps and sets, and how much weight to set. Each exercise includes a video demonstrating the action performed by Apple Fitness+ trainers from a few angles.

Equipment flexibility

Not everyone has access to a massive range of gym equipment, especially if they're using a home gym. The app will take into account whatever gym equipment you have at hand, with more than 30 types of strength equipment recognized for use in over 350 exercises.

If you have neither a home gym nor a gum membership, you can still get away with using it if you have dumbbells nearby. Likewise, if you're at a gym and a machine is occupied by another member, you can ask for an alternate exercise using different equipment that works the same body part, or skip them altogether.

Gym Strength is part of the Fitness+ subscription, which costs $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year on its own, or as part of the $39.95 Apple One Premier plan.

It requires an iPhone or iPad running iOS or iPadOS 27.3 beta at a minimum. If you have an Apple Watch on watchOS 27.3 beta, it can be used to view exercises from your wrist, as well as to log your reps and track your heart rate.

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