Workout Wednesday: Great for Beginners

With every new year comes resolutions, and one so many of us have made is to get active. We know that exercising more is a key to being healthy, but our busy lives make it hard to stick to these important commitments we make to ourselves.

One of the reasons many of us struggle to get, and stay, active is that we’ve never established the kind of workout routine that keeps us coming back day after day. And given all the things that can hold us back—work, commuting, shopping, and so on—starting one can be truly daunting.

But working out doesn’t have to be a struggle or a hassle. In fact, it can be fun—even, or especially, for beginners. And with Meta Quest, getting started on a fitness routine is easy because there’s tons of fun and immersive VR fitness apps that you can dive into whenever and wherever you want, including in your own home. And that means you can start building new habits today that are so fun they don’t feel like habits.

So grab your Meta Quest headset and start an exciting routine. Whether it’s a boxing session in Liteboxer, firing up some jump shots in GYM CLASS – Basketball VR, or swinging away in Racket: Nx, VR fitness is perfect for getting your entire body moving. Best of all, you can do it on your schedule, and you’ll have so much fun that you’ll be bragging to all your friends about how you took the “work” out of “workout.”

Each Wednesday this month, we’re highlighting a different fitness-related theme that will get you amped up to move your body and have fun with fitness. We’ll feature inspiring stories from people who have integrated VR fitness into their own lives, highlight some fantastic apps that’ll get your sweat beading, and show you how you can use Meta Quest Move to keep track of your fitness stats.

There’s no better time than today to level up and get going with your new active life or keep going with the one you’ve already built. So let’s strut our stuff right into this week’s theme: Great for Beginners.

What’s New This Week

Heart Rate Integration

The VR fitness community has been asking, and we listened: One of Meta Quest users’ most requested fitness features has been heart rate tracking so that you can easily see tangible and real-time results.

With our Heart Rate feature, you’ll be able to see your heart rate, when measured by a Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor, even while you’re in a VR workout.

So when you pair a heart rate monitor to your Meta Quest headset, you’ll have access to better and more precise information about how your VR workouts are raising your heart rate. And with that information in hand, you’ll be able to tailor your efforts to meet your goals.

When you leverage the sensors of your paired heart rate monitor, you’ll see your heart rate in beats per minute (BPM). This data will be displayed on the Move overlay.

Heart rate monitors that are known to work with Meta Quest are Garmin HRM-Dual and Polar H10. Other heart rate monitors that use Bluetooth for pairing may also be pairable with your Meta Quest.

Elite Strap Bundle

If you’ve been wanting to get a friend into the fun of VR fitness, tell them to mark their calendar for a great Meta Quest 2 promotion. For a limited time, get an Elite Strap for no additional cost when you buy Meta Quest 2. This must-have ergonomic accessory helps them get the most out of VR workouts by letting them balance and support their headset with a simple twist of a fit wheel. And that means they’ll be able to keep their head in the game no matter how active they get. Normally priced at $59.99 USD, they’ll get the strap at no additional cost when they buy a new Meta Quest 2 between January 6 and January 19 (or between January 2 and January 15 in EMEA or APAC).

New FitXR Content: Sculpt Studio

How do you make a great VR fitness experience even better? When it comes to boxing, HIIT, and dance app FitXR, you add supercharged toning classes built around movements inspired by barre, pilates, and isometric strength training that mix cardio bursts with challenging pulses, holds, and strength exercises.

With the new Sculpt Studio, FitXR is giving you a set of new classes that let you focus on getting active in a low-impact way that will fatigue different muscle groups and create “the burn” that lets you know you’re making real progress.

Each class targets a specific set of body parts per track while utilizing repetitive movements to fatigue the muscle groups.

Great for Beginners

If you’re just getting going with VR fitness, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. So we’ve rounded up a few of the best apps to get your heart pumping.

FitXR

Knowing where to start with VR fitness can be challenging, so why not jump in with FitXR—a terrific subscription boxing, HIIT, and dance experience that makes working out accessible and fun for everyone.

Featuring hundreds of workouts choreographed by fitness professionals, FitXR is perfect for getting you moving. And with seven new workouts a week, each set to hit songs from top artists, and three studios offering boxing, HIIT, and dance classes hosted by world-class trainers, you’ll be working up a sweat in breathtaking environments.

FitXR gives you a complete workout all in one place. So you can warm up, work out, and cool down, either on your own or with up to six friends, right in the app.

Get started now with a free one-week trial and cancel anytime through your Meta account.

LES MILLS BODYCOMBAT

When it’s time to build a new fitness routine, who better to get inspired by than four-time Olympian and New Zealand national track and field head coach Les Mills? Based on his mega-successful mixed martial arts and fitness BODYCOMBAT program created by instructors Rachael Newsham and Dan Cohen, LES MILLS BODYCOMBAT brings all that terrific heartbeat-raising activity to VR.

With a sweat-inducing soundtrack of chart-topping songs, LES MILLS BODYCOMBAT will have you punching and doing knee strikes and getting seriously active in no time.

Supernatural

You’ve made a resolution to get active, and with the hit VR fitness app Supernatural, you can become the best version of yourself as you travel to some of the most beautiful places on Earth.

With inspiring expert coaches cheering you on at every step, you will smash targets, stretch, box, do knee strikes, and meditate, and have all the motivation you need to get your heart pumping. Supernatural has nearly 1,800 workouts, with new ones added every day, as well as thousands of hit songs from your favorite artists to keep you grooving.

So start boxing to the beat of your favorite music, activate your body as you lose yourself to the rhythm, meditate in gorgeous destinations, and recover with guided stretching sessions. And see why countless people have turned to Supernatural to fall in love with fitness for the first time.

Click here to start your free trial.

Liteboxer

From the company that mixes innovative hardware and game dynamics with immersive at-home workouts comes Liteboxer. Step into the ring in VR while expert trainers teach you how to punch, bob, and weave your way through a series of daily workouts. And you can do all of that while bobbing your head to tons of hit songs from superstar artists like Lady Gaga and YG.

Play for free or click here to get a subscription and access hundreds of workouts, new daily punch tracks, dedicated trainers and coaching, and the ability to create custom workouts.

GYM CLASS – BASKETBALL VR

Basketball season is in full swing, and you’ve probably been imagining yourself out on the court swishing three-pointers and driving hard to the hoop to score on that All-Star center. Well, no need to imagine it—do it! With GYM CLASS – BASKETBALL VR, a VR basketball simulator, you can soar to the hoop for poster-worthy dunks, break your defender’s ankles with crafty dribbles, and bury treys like the pros.

Play on your own, or get pickup games going with your friends.

Racket: Nx

Want to get your body moving in an altogether different way? Then grab your controllers and jump into Racket: Nx, where racquetball meets Breakout inside a mammoth pinball machine.

Tennis and ping pong have set the standard, but with Racket: Nx, you can immerse yourself in a game that raises the bar for what’s possible with a racket and a ball in VR.

You can swing away to your heart’s content in single-player or competitive multiplayer modes. Step into the giant glass dome and watch as the walls light up as you destroy targets. Use the tractor beam to pull the ball back or line your shot up to hit it directly where you want. Your goal is to wipe away the targets before you run out of energy. So be fast, accurate, and smart and you could emerge as a Racket: Nx champion.

Meta Quest Move Tips

Setting Up Meta Quest Move for the First Time

Meta Quest Move is free and already on your headset. It allows you to track the calories you’ve burned, as well as how long you’ve been active, across all your VR fitness apps, no matter what apps or games you play.

In addition, you can use Meta Quest Move to set goals, earn achievements, and track your fitness progress over time. And it lets you view your stats in real time, as well as check your stats on your iOS or Android device.

To set up Meta Quest Move, you can find it in the apps panel of your Meta Quest headset.

Weekly Inspiration

Supernatural Member Story: Tommy Curtis

Tommy Curtis used to dread climbing the 40 steps from the street to his front door. He knew it was 40 because he counted every last one of them. He rarely exercised, so going up those steps was challenging. “When you’re not healthy,” he recalls, “it’s hard to be happy.”

In his past life, he was satisfied with his routine—watching TV, eating, and relaxing on the couch. He knew he should probably be more active but after struggling to sustain any kind of physical activity, he felt like he might as well just throw in the towel on feeling healthy.

But deep down, he didn’t want to feel so negative about every new day. And that’s when he discovered Supernatural.

At first, he just signed up for the free trial, but before long, he was all-in, regularly doing 30 minutes or more. And in doing so, he developed an entirely new way of looking at life. “It takes the limitations you put on yourself and makes you realize those are not limitations,” he says. “They’re just steps to becoming a better person.”

These are the kinds of inspiring stories we know can help so many more people overcome what they believe are their limitations. If Curtis and thousands of others in the Supernatural community can do it, so can you.

“I love the confidence that I can do hard things,” Curtis says. “Supernatural has given me the ability to live and be happy while I’m doing it. I think I can be anything I want to be.”

Keep Your VR Fitness Journey Going

VR fitness on Meta Quest is all about fun, and we can’t wait to help more people get going on their fitness journeys. It doesn’t matter if it’s just a few minutes a day or hours a week working up a serious sweat—as long as you’re moving, you’re doing the right thing for yourself.

And if you’re ready to make VR part of your exercise routine, we want to celebrate you. Take a post-workout selfie and tag @MetaQuest on Instagram to share your fitness journey with the VR community. We can’t wait to see you next week for another Workout Wednesday.

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