Why Get iFit with your NordicTrack or ProForm Equipment?
iFIT MEMBERSHIP REVIEW
Why iFit Overview
Most of the NordicTrack, ProForm, and FreeMotion exercise gear includes the first month of iFit membership free, a $39 value, with your exercise equipment purchase - and that's a good thing.
An iFit membership will take your workouts to another level, enabling your exercise equipment to be much more effective, interesting, fun, and engaging to train with.
iFit provides Personal interactive training with exceptionally well-designed workouts delivered to your exercise equipment's console where trainers can make real-time adjustments to speed, resistance, and inclines on the fly to match the terrain or a studio instructor cue. If you are time-starved, love being motivated, want to get fit, or need to shred some weight, use iFit to support and achieve your wellness goals – you will not regret it.
iFit also offers good value. You can add up to 4 additional user accounts for a total of five, where each can track individual stats and schedule workouts separately. Down the road, if you add more iFit-enabled exercise equipment, you can use the same membership subscription for a bike, treadmill, rower, or elliptical without any additional subscription cost.
If you opt to apply for financing for your exercise equipment iFit membership is included for the duration, and the first month is still included free.
Train at Destinations or in the Studio with iFit on your treadmill, Studio bike, elliptical, or rower
What is iFit?
So, what is iFit? A big trend in fitness these days is bringing the gym to your home, so you don't have to go – or at least as often. Whether on a rower, studio bike, treadmill, incline treadmill, or using a Nordictrack Fusion CST strength trainer, you have access stream interactive iFit studio and destination trainer-led sessions to your equipment’s console, tablet, smartphone, or smart TV – even Apple TV. With iFit you can do your fitness routines on your own time, but you are literally with a personal trainer, never alone, so it's motivating, challenging, and fun – You also get to select your favorite locations across the world and instructors to follow – whether for a live event or an on-demand workout session.
Select your favorite iFit studio class or trainer-led destination workout. Workout across the globe whether you're on a Treadmill, an S22i Bike, Fusion CST or RW700 Rower. Pick from a wide selection of equipment-specific & cross-training classes – see recommended equipment below for full reviews and to get the best deals
Connected-Fitness
iFit is "Connected Fitness" — thousands of exercise equipment-specific studio and destination trainer-led workouts with a one-on-one coaching feel. Streamed sessions to your equipment that delivers a boutique gym or studio-like experience—including live event workouts, the ability to follow a favorite instructor, and a built-in community, but without all the stress and Gym anxiety of actually going to a gym.
No Equipment — No Problem
You can access the iFit workout library from any smart device, cast to a wide screen TV or access the iFit TV app on any Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and Roku. Every workout available on your iFit-enabled machine, phone, or tablet is available in the iFit TV app, from yoga, to strength training, meditation, Pilates, and boxing workouts.
iFIT TRAINERS
iFit trainers seem super-human in the real sense of the word, by that we mean, as they work-out alongside you just as hard – you can feel them working the challenge just as hard as you are. The trainers keep sessions positive, fun, and quick moving. As they say – "We guide and encourage you, but you have show up and do the work".
In a nutshell, if you are time-starved, love being motivated 1-on-1, want to get fit, or need to shred some weight seriously consider iFit. An iFit membership will take your workouts to a whole new level and make your exercise equipment that more engaging and effective to achieve your goals.
Select from thousands of destination series workouts use your iFit membership hikes, walks and runs
iFit ENHANCES YOUR EXERCISE EQUIPMENT
AutoAdjust and SmartAdjust
In addition to the vast library of well-designed trainer-led classes, iFit technology will recognize the type of equipment you have and allow trainers to make real-time adjustments to match the session activity in real-time. As an option you never have to touch your machine's controls so you can focus on your workout – iFit AutoAdjust can change real-time your machine’s resistance, speed, incline, or decline to match the studio workout or destination terrain you are running through, rowing, or cycling on. Your instructor can dynamically adjust settings to synchronize your equipment with your personalized workout (SmartAdjust). Most NordicTrack and Proform iFit users report loving these features, especially with the destination trainer-led workouts. and we concur.
iFit AutoAdjust No Gimmick
This is much more than a gimmick, it’s the level of integration with your exercise equipment and workout content that makes iFit unique. For example, on a Nordictrack Commercial treadmill series or S22i Studio Cycle you are actually climbing up a real slope or descending down a trail incline. This elevation feature is not a fancy gimmick, it totally gets your heart pumping, builds strength, stamina, and yes, your quads will burn at first, but then you are rewarded with the downhill, which is super cool, as the bike or tread speed increases and the resistance goes down.
If you're not into this or a certain segment is too easy or too hard simply make your own adjustment decisions, then later choose to re-join the session as trainers provide a “heads-up” as to what's coming up. You can also decide not to use iFit to take classes and still use your equipment making your preferred changes to speed, incline, or resistance.
real-time equipment adjustments
CHECKOUT THE TRAINERS IN ACTION
Streamed workouts are motivating, challenging, and are effective. If you want to get fit, lose some weight and be stronger – the NordicTrack Commercial X22i or Commercial X32i incline treadmill with an iFit membership is a great way to go if you like to run trails, hike, or power train with either a 22-inch or 32” touchscreen.
Read Peloton Tread vs. NordicTrack Incline Treadmill article or checkout, the Power of the Incline Article that discusses the benefits of running up-hill with the NordicTrack incline treadmill.
Run, Walk, Hike with a Commercial X22i or X32i incline Treadmill. Above iFit Trainer Tommy Rivers
Elevation inclines for a Nordictrack Commercial incline Treadmill
iFit COSTS JUST ABOUT $1 PER DAY
Nordictrack, Proform, or FreeMotion equipment purchases include the first month of an iFit – $39 value which is a real saving as with many other brands like Peloton, SoulCycle and Hydrow you start paying on day one for access to classes.
iFit is a monthly $39 membership which is about a dollar a day. Its extensive choices of workouts make it is really good value as you can have up to 5 user accounts. If you pay for iFit on an annual basis, the cost is $33/month saving you $72 or 15%. If you choose to apply for financing iFit will be included in your equipment financing purchase with your first year still included free.
You can add four additional users to your primary account for a total of 5 users so the whole family can work out tracking their own progress. iFit membership comes with a massive library of workouts so you can mix up routines and add HIIT, boxing, yoga, and Bootcamp, to your running, cycling, rowing, or strength training. There are LIVE event workouts with new ones being constantly added.
CROSS-TRAINING
Meet the iFit Trainers - See highlights of iFit Cross-Training in Italy
iFit Destination Workouts
Video above: Follow your iFit coach through some of the most beautiful locations
Trainer-led-destination workouts are a huge favorite where you can train alongside an iFit trainer through an engaging bike trail, run, hike, or power walk in some of the most spectacular spots across the globe. For instance, Locations range from Italy, Switzerland, India, Thailand, New Zealand, Antarctica, the streets of Paris or New York to Laguna Beach, Hawaii or Alaska. Your iFit membership also offers a wide selection of cross-training workouts — for live events, on-demand in the studio, or throughout breathtaking global locations.
iFit trainer, Hannah Eden, leads you on segments of her Ring Road run in Iceland on this X32i Incline Treadmill, which is awesome on a 32-inch HD display touchscreen
Reduce or even Eliminate Treks to the GYM
On the NordicTrack S22i Bike, iFit Coach and personal trainer, John Peel takes an iFit studio class
iFit Trainer John Peel Leading a Fusion CST strength training Studio Class
AVOID GOING TO THE GYM
Many people in-between gym sessions find it helpful to work out at home while some even prefer to exercise from home 100% of the time.
The best part with an iFit membership is you are working out with a personal trainer on your schedule, no gym hassles – let’s face it, gyms can be off-putting, maybe a little gross to some, filled with germs – a less attractive option than home. With iFit workouts, it still feels like your part of a group session but way better. We are not recommending, not going to the gym, many prefer it, but in between gym sessions iFit offers a lot in between those visits to make you even stronger, faster, and leaner and healthier.
It is so easy to put off a gym work-out, you have to get there, park, find open equipment, get motivated, and put aside the to-do list. With exercise equipment at home, you can work out any time on your schedule. Your trainer is always ready to lead you through a session at destinations you choose or in a studio class on-demand. And as an option, you can let your iFit technology adjust the intensity incline, resistance, and speed of your treadmill, incline treadmill, Studio S22i bike, Fusion CST, and rower —all handsfree.
There is little chance you or your muscles will become bored with a vast library of over 18,000 workouts to select from (in various lengths and genres). Pick your favorite trainer and go. And remember, the 'Power of Incline Training' or adding extra resistance can torch a lot more calories in the same amount of time – you will see quicker results which in part can contribute towards improving your wellness and mental health.
Compare the X22i & incline Treadmills, the Fusion CST, or the NordicTrack Commercial 2450 Treadmill. All incredibility effective calorie-burning machines powered by iFit technology
Who would enjoy an iFit Membership?
■ If you are serious about focusing on your mental health and wellness — whether you’re a stay-at-home parent, work at home, or working long hours in the city and need help starting on the path to fitness or weight loss.
■ If you are a time-starved, health-conscious individual who loves being motivated and challenged but with some fun and variation added to your workouts, iFit is a recommended way to go.
■ If you are looking for the power of group fitness within the comfort of home, you are not alone! The At-Home fitness movement has dramatically increased recently. In fact, before the pandemic, more Americans worked out at home than anywhere else. iFit can be incredibly inspiring, interesting, and fun as it offers an engaging, personal interactive training experience on and off your equipment.
2-Time Olympian and iFit Rowing Coach, Alex Gregory. Checkout the latest RW900 Rower Review
iFit ─ Final thoughts
iFit delivers some of the best designed workout content. And why it is one of the best implementations of connected-fitness workouts with exercise equipment. The iFit app is designed to work across a range of rowing, treadmill, exercise bike, strength, and elliptical exercise gear that supports a fantastic array of trainer-led workout sessions in-the-studio, and at locations across all seven continents.
iFit Trainers are elite athletes and personal trainers who are talented at what they do. They educate, challenge, push, entertain, motivate to keep you on track. iFit offers such a wide variety of equipment-specific & cross-training class options streamed to your exercise equipment. You never have to do the same workout twice — although we often do. There’s nothing like rowing in French Polynesia or hiking the Swiss Alps to get you out of breath yet take it away at the same time —the views are amazing.
Overall, we found iFit addictive and followed our favorite trainers, taking some sessions multiple times without being bored. We particularly enjoyed doing the Destination series workouts like rowing in the South Pacific, French Polynesian Islands with Kevin Scott, or walking on the Wild Side of the Serengeti African Savanah with Dr. Evan Antin. If want some cardio but hate running, then the hiking the Swiss Alps with John Peel or with Tommy Rivers in Patagonia will do the trick.
Interesting, intense, and a lot of fun virtually exploring the world with iFit or training in a live event session — and so is the ability to let your iFit trainer dynamically adjust in real-time your type of equipment's incline, decline, resistance, or speed with AutoAdjust and SmartAdjust.
These options are designed to automatically change your equipment to match the workout intensity or the terrain you are running through, cycling on, or rowing as you train. You can focus on the session without worrying about messing around with adjustments to speed, incline, or resistance settings, on your treadmill, incline treadmill, Studio S22i or s27i bike, Fusion CST, or indoor rower.
iFit instructors mix it up for you to get in a full-body workout. With cross-fit segments added to many sessions, you get cardio + strength training. Trainers provide an experience you will look forward to more and more every day, as you see improvement and as they help you reach your health and wellness goals. So go ahead and crush it with iFit.
Trainer led Destination runs on your Nordictrack X22i or X32i incline treadmill
RECOMMENDED GEAR Powered by iFit
NordicTrack Rowers include the RW600, RW700 and the New RW900 rowers with 10-to-22-inch touchscreen provide a full body LOW IMPACT workout. Store vertically as they can be simply stood upright or rolled away for easy storage
