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Spotify saw how many of us use its popular music app for fitness — workout mixes are one of the top uses of its playlist creation tool — and now it’s Adding fitness content directly. Some workout videos are available to everyone, and premium users can also take Peloton classes.
How to Find Workout Videos on Spotify
To find fitness content, search or browse for “fitness” and workout videos will pop up. They’ll be mixed with workout-focused playlists, which seems like an odd choice, but the feature is brand new. Maybe a better organization is going to come in the future.
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you’ll notice that Peloton Workouts is the most visible offering. Spotify describes these as “an ever-growing list of over 1,400” workout videos. Cycling classes are not included, but strength, cardio and meditation classes are.
There’s also a quiz to match you with the right workout. It will ask if you want cardio, strength, or recovery; long or short workouts; And your experience level. I asked for a short beginner cardio workout, and a “HIIT Starter Pack” of 10-minute workouts was automatically saved to my library.
How Peloton Workouts on Spotify Compare to the Peloton App
Spotify’s Peloton tier of offerings appear to be very similar to what you’ll find on Peloton app one tier. This tier is $12.99/month, which is the same cost as a Spotify Premium subscription. These videos include everything you can do in your living room, like yoga and strength workouts with dumbbells. They No Includes classes you can do on an actual Peloton bike (they require a $49/month All Access membership) or on a non-Peloton bike at the gym (which requires the Peloton App+ at $28.99/month).
I did one of those 10-minute HIIT classes, and can report that it was easy to follow, and the individual exercises were shown as “chapters” in the app that I could preview to see the class structure. Unfortunately there’s no connection to the Peloton app, so the class I took didn’t show up in my Peloton workout history, and there was no built-in way to track my metrics like heart rate or reps. A nice plus: There’s a button to switch to the audio-only player, which is nice if you’re playing by ear and don’t need to look at the screen.
What do you think so far?
The workouts appear as a video podcast, with “episodes” presented in a list. When I finished one HIIT video, the next one automatically started playing. I don’t think it’s a Great The interface for presenting workout videos, but it’s certainly not bad. And if you want both Spotify and Peloton content, getting it all for one $12.99 subscription is definitely a bargain compared to paying twice as much.
Non-Peloton classes available to everyone
Scroll down from Peloton Classes, and you’ll see that there are more creators who each have their own podcast-style series of video classes. I found them under “Browse Fitness Creators” and “Explore Creator Workouts.”
I tried the five-minute run warmup from Nourish Move Love, and it was a very similar experience to the Peloton workout. The chapters on this were automatically generated, but it was clear to follow and I appreciated the progress bar overlaid on the video, which seemed part of the video content, an addition to this creator, and separate from the Spotify interface. I also really liked the warmup because it was something I could do completely on my feet – great for a real pre-run scenario regardless of the weather.
