Focus on Fitness: Everything You Need To Know about JRNY App’s New Motion Tracking

If you own Nautilus home gym equipment such as Schwinn or Bowflex, you may be familiar with the JRNY app. Nautilus equipment including bikes, treadmills, recumbent bikes, ellipticals, and weights can be used with JRNY to enhance your workout with things like goal setting and guided workouts.

JRNY is a digital fitness app that offers a variety of features including progress tracking, entertainment streaming, and instructor-led classes. Now, for the first time ever, the app also offers motion tracking to help you track your reps and correct your form in real-time. Here’s everything you need to know to determine if the app’s new Motion Tracking feature is right for you:

What type of workouts can you do with JRNY with Motion Tracking?

JRNY with Motion Tracking is designed to work with Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells. Currently, there are 30 trainer-led motion tracking dumbbell workouts available, including a 15 minute Lower Body workout with trainer Carlos Davila, Shoulders and Core with Sarah Gawron, Core Focused Strength with Dani Irwin, and more.

What type of dumbbells and other equipment do you need to use JRNY with Motion Tracking?

JRNY app with Motion Tracking offers workouts that are designed for use with Bowflex SelectTech 552 and Bowflex SelectTech 1090 Dumbbells. SelectTech Dumbbells are adjustable dumbbells that are space efficient and are designed to be able to replace a rack of weights. Bowflex SelectTech 1090 Dumbbells adjust from 10-90 pounds, replacing 17 sets of weights. SelectTech 552 Dumbbells adjust from 5-52.5 pounds and replace 15 sets of weights.  

You also need an app-compatible Android or iOS tablet with camera access. While Motion Tracking is not currently optimized for mobile phones, Nautilus plans to offer this option in the future.

How do you use JRNY with Motion Tracking ?

Create a profile in the JRNY app including which dumbbells you have and indicate preferences for your workouts. This will establish a baseline and help personalize future workout recommendations. Workouts with Motion Tracking appear in the Dumbbells program category and are tagged as "Adaptive."

Next, navigate to the Dumbbells program category and look for the“Adaptive Program” tag on workouts.

At the start of the workout, you can initialize the Motion Tracking technology with two movements for optimal tracking. Throughout the workout, the app tracks more than 15 strategic points to determine location, direction, and speed of movement for the purpose of assessing form and counting reps. 

Time left in a movement interval, the number of reps completed and remaining, and the weight required for the next interval are displayed on-screen. 

An AI voice assistant delivers intelligent coaching and responds to commands such as updates to actual weight used. 

What should you expect when using JRNY with Motion Tracking?

When you work out with Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells and the JRNY app with Motion Tracking, real-time, voice-assisted feedback tells you how to adjust their movement in the moment. JRNY with Motion Tracking also counts reps, records actual weight used, and factors this information into recommendations for the next workout to help you get stronger at a rate that’s appropriate for you.

How much does the JRNY app cost?

For a limited time, new JRNYmembers will receive a 1-year complementary JRNY membership. Following the free trial, a JRNY membership will cost $19.99 per month, or $149 per year.

[Images and video courtesy of Nautilus/JRNY]