Peloton Workout Videos Are Now Available on Spotify.
Spotify has noticed how many people are using its popular music app for fitness—creating workout playlists is one of its most popular uses—and is now adding fitness content directly to the app . 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 the “fitness” section, and workout videos will appear. They’ll be mixed in with workout-related playlists, which seems odd, but this feature is completely new. Perhaps a more streamlined content organization will be added in the future.
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you’ll see Peloton workouts prominently featured among the offerings. Spotify describes them as “an ever-growing catalog of over 1,400” workout videos. Cycling classes are not included, but there are strength training, cardio, and meditation classes.
There’s also a quiz to help you find the perfect workout. It asks whether you want cardio, strength training, or recovery; long or short workouts; and your fitness level. I chose a short cardio workout for beginners, and a 10-minute “HIIT workout starter pack” was automatically added to my library.
How Peloton workouts on Spotify compare to workouts in the Peloton app
The Peloton classes offered by Spotify appear to be similar to what you get with the Peloton App One plan . This plan costs $12.99 per month, which is the same price as a Spotify Premium subscription. These videos include almost everything you can do in your living room, such as yoga and strength training with dumbbells. They do not include classes that can be done on an actual Peloton bike (which requires an All Access subscription for $49 per month) or on a third-party bike at a gym (which requires Peloton App+ for $28.99 per month).
I completed one of the 10-minute HIIT workouts and found it easy to follow, with individual exercises displayed in the app as “chapters” that I could preview to see the structure of the class. Unfortunately, there’s no connection to the Peloton app itself, so the class I completed didn’t appear in my Peloton workout history, and there was no built-in tracking feature for metrics like heart rate or reps. One nice perk: there’s a button to switch to audio-only playback, which is handy if you’re following the workout by ear and don’t need to see the screen.
The workouts are presented as video podcasts, with episodes displayed in a list format. When I finished one high-intensity interval training (HIIT) video, the next one automatically launched. I don’t think it’s the perfect interface for presenting workout videos, but it’s certainly not bad. And if you want content from both Spotify and Peloton, getting it all for a single $12.99 subscription is definitely a better deal than paying twice.
Non-Peloton classes are available to everyone.
Scroll down the page, past the Peloton workout sections, and you’ll see other creators, each with their own podcast series of video lessons. I found them in the “Explore Fitness Content Creators” and “Explore Creators’ Workouts” sections.
I tried Nourish Move Love’s five-minute pre-run warmup, and it felt very similar to the Peloton workout. The sections in this workout were auto-generated but easy to follow, and I loved the progress bar overlayed on the video, which appears to be part of the video content—a new feature from this creator and separate from the Spotify interface. I also really liked the warmup because I could do it completely standing up—perfect for getting ready for a run in any weather.