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Spotify noticed how many of us use its popular music app for fitness—workout mixes are one of the top uses of its playlist creation tools—and now it’s adding fitness content directly. Some workout videos are available to everyone, and premium users can take Peloton classes as well.
How to find workout videos on Spotify
To find the fitness content, search or browse for “fitness,” and workout videos will pop up. They will be mixed in with workout-focused playlists, which feels like an odd choice, but the feature is brand new. Perhaps a better organization is coming in the future.
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you’ll see that Peloton workouts make up the most visible offerings. Spotify describes these as “a continually growing catalog of more than 1,400” workout videos. Cycling classes aren’t included, but strength, cardio, and meditation classes are.
There’s also a quiz to match you with the perfect workout. It will ask whether 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 class offerings seem to be similar to what you get on Peloton’s App One tier. This tier is $12.99/month, the same cost as a Spotify Premium subscription. These videos include pretty much anything you can do in your living room, like yoga and strength workouts with dumbbells. They don’t include classes you can do on an actual Peloton Bike (you need the $49/month All Access subscription for those) or on a non-Peloton bike at the gym (that requires Peloton App+ at $28.99/month).
I did one of those 10-minute HIIT classes, and can report it was easy to follow, and the individual exercises were shown in the app as “chapters” that I could preview to see the class structure. Unfortunately there’s no connection to the Peloton app itself, so the class I took did not show up in my Peloton workout history, and there was no built-in way to track my metrics like heart rate or reps. One nice plus: there’s a button to switch to an audio-only player, which is nice if you’re following along by ear and don’t need to see the screen.
What do you think so far?
The workouts appear as a video podcast, with “episodes” that are presented in a list. When I finished that one HIIT video, the next one automatically started playing. I don’t think this is a great 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 certainly a bargain compared to paying double.
Non-Peloton classes are available to all
Scroll down past the Peloton classes, and you’ll see there are more creators that each have their own podcast-style series of video classes. I found them under “Browse Fitness Creators” and “Explore Creator Workouts.”
I tried a five-minute run warmup from Nourish Move Love, and it was much the same experience as the Peloton workout. The chapters on this one were auto-generated, but it was clear to follow and I appreciated the progress bar overlaid over the video, which seemed to be part of the video content, this creator’s addition, and separate from the Spotify interface. I also really happened to like the warmup since it was one that I could do entirely on my feet—great for an actual pre-run scenario no matter the weather.
