FitXR on Quest now has 'Journey', a personalized recommendation system designed to help you spend less time searching for workouts and more time exercising.
The app's July update also brings Profile Levels, revamped sound design, a new Oceana environment, and a daily streak system designed to encourage more consistent habits.
After spending several days with the update, I found Journey to be an interesting addition, though its recommendations didn't always line up with the way I already use FitXR.
FitXR offers more than 1,000 workouts across Boxing, Combat, HIIT, Dance, Sculpt, Flow , and other workout types. That breadth is one of the platform's biggest strengths, but it can also make deciding what to do next surprisingly difficult. Journey is designed to simplify that decision by recommending workouts based on a member's goals and activity.
When I spoke with FitXR CEO Sam Cole ahead of the update, he described Journey as part of a broader effort to remove friction from the fitness experience and help members build sustainable habits rather than treating each workout as an isolated session.
Journey begins by asking users about their fitness goals before recommending their first workouts. According to FitXR Vice President of Product Rob Mayes, recommendations for existing members also draw on workout history, preferred studios, coaches, music, and recent activity, while new members answer additional questions during onboarding.
Some recommendations matched the workouts I was looking for. Others consistently steered me toward higher-intensity HIIT sessions than I would normally choose. While Journey lets users adjust workout duration and overall intensity, I still found myself sometimes returning to the Explore menu to manually browse and select the classes I wanted.
Although FitXR says Journey learns from a member's workout history and ongoing activity, I found it difficult to communicate workout-specific preferences. I generally enjoy intermediate or advanced Boxing, Combat, and Flow classes, while preferring lower-intensity HIIT workouts, yet Journey still treated those preferences as a single fitness profile.