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The Latest Apple Fitness+ Feature Lets You Take an Oddly Satisfying Walk With a Celebrity
I took a walk with Shawn Mendes, and it was cool
Griffith Park is a beautiful place to walk. You have the long, steep climb to the top, dotted along the way with beautiful vistas of Los Angeles hills, and the treat of the iconic Griffith Observatory at the top.
Shawn Mendes described some of this to me as I trudged through the side streets of my chilly suburban neighborhood.
The singer-songwriter and I were thousands of miles apart, but brought together asynchronously, via Apple’s new Fitness+ (the service costs $9.99 a month after a one-month free trial) add-on: the podcast-like Time to Walk audio workout series.
Time to Walk is a collection of walk-and-talks with various musicians, athletes, and, eventually, other iconic and interesting figures. Apple plans to update the library every Monday. Unlike a podcast, there’s no interviewer, just the voice of the subject married to real ambient sounds like footfalls, birds, and other passersby.
The special sauce, though, is how Apple has married the audio excursions with a walking workout on your Apple Watch.
Time to Walk lives inside the Apple Fitness app under Fitness+. You download one of…
