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Sensor-toting fitness tech that wants you to ditch
the gym pass in favour of housebound workouts
FIIT
£45.00 per month/£120.00 per year
including Fiit HR belt, fiit.tvReal-life turn-up-and-burn-up group studio
sessions are hugely popular. They make
busting a gut much more fun, plus most of us
train harder when we’re barked at by a drill
sergeant. Fiit takes that formula for trainer-
led sessions out of the boutique studio and
brings it to the comfort of your front room.
All you need is the smartphone app and
a special chest strap, and Fiit beams on-
demand, expert-coached fitness sessions
to your TV – though you can also use your
phone or tablet. There are hundreds of
classes covering strength and cardio, asMotivation H H H H H
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Coaching H H H H Hwell as mobility with Pilates and yoga. Each
comes with a useful difficulty rating and a
breakdown of the drills you’re about to do,
so you can see what you’re signing up for.
If you’re working towards a fitness goal,
personalised training plans stitch together
different sessions to help you get there.
The whole thing really comes to life
when you pair the Fiit chest strap to unlock
rep counting (provided your form is on point),
real-time heart-rate readouts to keep you
working in the right zone, and Fiit Points so
you can compare how hard you’ve worked
across sessions. You can also unleash your
competitive edge with live leaderboard
HIIT classes.
The sessions are either 25 or 45 minuteslong, the instructors are pumped but not
too cheesy, and the simplicity of firing up
an app, sticking on a strap and smashing
a workout pretty much anywhere is
a powerful motivator. If we had one
complaint, it’s that an increasing number
of the workouts feature kettlebells,
dumbbells and resistance bands, so to
enjoy the full suite of sessions you will
need to invest in a bit of extra kit. BEST BUY
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