How To Use Your Amazon Echo To Get In Shape

You can laze around, asking your Echo to play music and keep you entertained with quizzes and games. But you can also use it to help you get in shape. Among Alexa’s many skills are ones that can shout out exercises like a disembodied personal trainer.

- Lance Whitney

Ask Alexa to start a five-minute plank, start a new workout for abs, talk you through a chest workout, or launch into a seven-minute routine. Your Echo can even personalize and keep track of your workouts, so you can simply tell Alexa, “Open my workouts,” and it’ll know just what to do. In some cases, you may have to enable an exercise first before you can perform it, which you can do in the Alexa app.

To browse through all of Alexa’s workout skills, open the Alexa app, tap on the hamburger icon, and select Skills. Tap on the Categories button, then tap on the Health & Fitness category. Hunt around to discover the various exercise and fitness skills. To save you time, here are some skills that will get you started on your road to better health and fitness.

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