Tim Cook on Health and Fitness

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

With the latest version of its Watch and the imminent launch of its online training platform Fitness+, Apple is positioning itself as a leader in the health and wellness space. For CEO Tim Cook, this effort has been many years in the making. A fitness obsessive, Cook works out daily, passionately believes that exercise is key to our quality of life, and he sees extraordinary opportunity in the ability to democratize health science by enabling millions of his customers to anonymously share their data with researchers. But Cook is also an outdoors nerd who says that his time in nature and offline is “like a palate cleanser for the mind.” In this extended conversation with Outside Podcast host Michael Roberts, Cook talks about both the incredible promise of technology to enhance our well-being and Apple’s duty to help us use our devices more wisely.

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0:00.0	From Outside magazine and PRX, this is the outside podcast.
0:07.0	How are you? I'm good. Thank you so much for making the time this morning. Oh, it's my
0:19.6	pleasure. I love what you do. Good to meet you.
0:23.0	You too.
0:24.0	And I appreciate you hosting me here.
0:26.0	It's pretty spectacular.
0:28.0	It's like working in a park.
0:30.0	Yeah, it literally is like working in a park.
0:34.0	This is Michael Roberts, host of the outside podcast.
0:38.0	And today, we're going to take a walk around Apple Park with Tim Cook.
0:43.0	Earlier in the fall, Apple had invited me to their headquarters in Cupertino, California to speak with Cook, the CEO since 2011.
0:52.0	Our conversation took place several weeks after the Apple product
0:56.4	event where they introduced Series 6 of the Apple Watch. The headline news was the addition of a blood oxygen sensor. The slogan for the device, according to one promotional video, the future of health is on your wrist.
1:11.0	The other big announcement at the event was the launch of Fitness Plus,
1:16.2	a subscription-based service that will offer guided studio workouts streamed Apple devices
1:21.7	by mid-December.
1:23.0	It marks a significant step for the company.
1:26.0	They are jumping into the rapidly expanding online training space
1:30.0	in a major way.
1:32.0	Tim Cook, who is a fitness obsessive and a bit of a nature nerd who
1:36.3	regularly reads Outside magazine, was interested in speaking with me about Apple's
1:41.8	commitment to creating products that improve our health,
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