Why the ramp test is the best FTP test
In theory, a 8-minute or even better, a 20-minute FTP test are superior to a ramp test. But theory and reality don’t align. Why? There are a few different reasons Both the 8 and 20-minute tests are painful. This means you won’t want to perform them often. Both the 8 and 20-minute require precise pacing,
Smart Bike Trainers Review
Our First App Review – It’s Solid Tariq from smartbiketrainers.com has been testing our app for a while and pointed out some of its unique features. He has also provided a lot of great feedback on how to improve the app. Please share this video link https://youtu.be/zvFSvpauQJo with your friends and go to his YouTube video
I am time-crunched. Our new Training App.
Hello, this is Alex. Let me tell you a story. Like many of you, I have a very busy schedule. I have a great wife and six-year-old twin boys that I spend a lot of time with. I have a part-time technology job. I also have my passion and our future, which is TrainerDay. With
Search Your Library – Two different ways
Search Inside your Library NEW FEATURE: You can now view all your library at a glance and search right on the library tab. Both methods of searching your library are PAID features. Workout Search Page If you need to find a needle in a hay stack you still have more options on the workouts search
Send Full Plans to Garmin. Also, our New Week Selector
Send Plan to Garmin You can now send an entire plan directly to your Garmin Calendar. Specify WeeksYou can also select specific weeks to send to either Garmin or TrainingPeaks. This means you can find a plan that you only like a part of it, and just follow 4 of 16 weeks for example. It’s
W’Bal says easy, I say it’s impossible
No one can do 60-minutes at FTP Theoretically they can, but in reality they can’t or won’t. W’Bal shows that it is “easy.” That is because W’Bal is not about easy or hard. It only look at what is above FTP (anaerobic) and sees if it it is possible. Don’t use W’Bal for anything close
W’ Is Not… (With good over-under examples)
W’ does not tell you how hard a workout is. A 20-minute workout close to FTP is very hard, or very, very hard. W’ won’t tell you anything. Even though over-unders like these below have an anaerobic component, they are primarily aerobic. W’ can not predict the difficulty in these. It’s probably obvious, but we
Why FTP based training is half wrong
Sorry but they sold you some bad gas It’s not all bad, workouts designed around FTP are great for aerobic training. They are just poorly optimized for anaerobic workouts. It’s funny for me to say that since we have a website with 5000+ FTP based workouts. Many or most of these workouts have at least one
FTP measures Aerobic, what about Anaerobic?
Part ONE of three – Part #2 “Determine your W’ – Part #3 ‘Designing the perfect interval workout using W’Bal” Need some extra power? In cycling, aerobic power, measured by FTP, is not optional, it’s what gets you in the game. But if you want to excel in MTB, cyclo-cross, or find yourself periodically get
Designing the Perfect Interval Workout Using W’Bal
Part THREE of three – Part #1 What is W’?– Part #2 How to calculate your W’ ? Progressive Overload As most of you likely know, one of the key fundamentals of exercise is progressive overload. This means if you want to get stronger you need to go to failure or at least close to failure
How to determine your W’
Part TWO of three – Part #1 What is W’ ?– Part #3 Finding and Designing the perfect interval workout using W’Bal Finding your W’ starts with your best efforts There are many ways to find your W’. GoldenCheetah software is complex but powerful and free. Just import your last 90-days and go to the
Free Ride and Open-Ended Intervals (Garmin/Zwift)
Garmin Open Ended Intervals Open-ended intervals means it will just keep going until you hit the lap button on your Garmin unit. If you add fr or free-ride to the interval type in our editor you will get Open-Ended workouts on your Garmin device. You must still include an amount of time for this. Generally
Garmin – Send to Calendar
For Free Accounts You can still send directly to Garmin Connect for free. Everything still works the same as it did. You just have one extra button click. Send to Garmin Library allows you to go to Garmin Connect and push your workouts to your device. We have always sent Garmin 3s (3 second power
Our Membership Plan (OLD PLAN)
A Word from Alex. Everything below is still true but you can see our full new plan here https://trainerday.com/pricing/ I love free stuff. I like high-value stuff even more. The value in TrainerDay is all the ERGdb workouts you have provided. The TrainerDay site is just enabling everyone to share. I don’t want to change
How to use TrainerDay Plans
It’s all about SHARING. We have designed TrainerDay software to make creating and sharing cycling training plans simple. You will probably want to use other apps/software or even on paper to manage your plans. Here is a simple article on how-to search and use our plans. Software for using our plans TrainingPeaks (TP)Here is a
Designing the Perfect Training Plan – Part 1
The Perfect Training Plan In a week or two at most, we are launching open source training plans. We refer to the individual periods of a plan as a block. Each block has a goal. So how do you pick or design the perfect next block? You don’t 🙂 It’s always a compromise. Identifying a
Find and Use Our Cycling Training Plans
Sharing Plans not managing them We are 100% focused on building the best or only platform for sharing training plans. TrainerDay is not providing calendar or scheduling. We want to make it easy to integrate with your favorite calendars. We are starting with a focus on TrainingPeaks and Google Calendar. We have export to CSV
Creating Cycling Training Plans
The fastest Training Plan Creator – VIDEO PART #1 This is the beginning of Open Source Training Plans. We have a lot of features planned. Watch the video below to see the full feature list. Our features are related to sharing plans not so much about personal workout scheduling. For creating schedules we suggest using
ERGdb is Growing Up – Welcome TrainerDay
ERGdb’s new “Parent” is TrainerDay For the many people we have talked to, don’t worry, it’s still the same Alex and team. We just have a shinny new name. We still love what ERGdb stands for. Open Source sharing of something we all care about so much. The daily grind 🙂 ERG makes sense as
Intervals in the Sets & Reps Editor
This is a hard workout, at least for me it would be. It’s also a very long list of intervals. Compare below: On the right is our standard editor and on the left is the new one. Hello sets and reps 🙂 brought to you by the ERGdb team. The workout is brought to you
New Power Search
How it works Try typing Z for zone or A for author and you will see some highlighted ideas on what to search for. We will continue adding more options for more powerful search capabilities. I should point out we only picked some random authors that had a lot of workouts. Watch 2-Minute Video Below
Workout Editor – New Features
List of new features Enter Power In Watts, FTP% and Zones Add Types to intervals (Warm-up, Active, Cool down…) Text Descriptions (For easy to follow outdoor workouts) Sets and Reps editor mode click here to read about how efficient it can be. Cadence ( 80-90 rpm for example) Currently we are not pushing these new
Ramps and Steps
TrainingPeaks and Garmin do not support ramps ERGdb supports ramps which makes creating increasing or decreasing power targets simpler. MRC and ERG files both support ramps. TrainingPeaks and Garmin do not support ramps. So ERGbd has an algorithm that automatically converts ramps to steps trying not to produce just the right number of steps. The
Workouts in TrainingPeaks
Connect & Push Go to Apps and Devices (under more menu) Connect to TrainingPeaks Go to My Library Click send and select TrainingPeaks We hope you enjoy this feature. Watch Video Below TrainingPeak Coaches – You must connect from ERGdb with your premium athlete account and then copy any workouts to your coach account
The Fastest Workout Editor
Designed for one thing. Speed. That’s it. It works just like Excel with copy and paste and arrow keys for moving. Try it out. Create your first workout here. Watch the 40-second video below https://shared-web.s3.amazonaws.com/ergdb/videos/fastest-editor.mp4 Below is a video showing how to insert a row into a workout
Push Workouts to Garmin
Video to watch end to end process of getting your workouts on your Garmin Device. Three Easy Steps Go to My Profile, Apps and Devices and connect to Garmin. Add a workout to a list such as your Favorites. ClGo to My Library and click download on a workout and push to Garmin. Then go
How to use My Library
Below is a video showing how My Library Works. Watch Video It’s very simple but the video might provide some additional insight. Also the screenshot above shows you how to create new lists and add to list and the one on the right shows you how to view your libraries. Video of My Library
ERGdb + Wahoo Elemnt-German
Andi did a short interview with us recently and wrote an article on how to use your Elemnt with ERGdb. Using google translate I checked it out and looks like a great article. ENGLISH Wahoo Elemnt Instructions here. Read the article below ERGdb – Trainingspläne einfach und schnell
Developer API’s available now.
Developer APIs
You can access the developer API documentation on the menu at the bottom of the site or by going directly to https://trainerday.com/api
ERGdb + Wahoo Elemnt
Although manually loading workouts on your Elemnt is not officially supported. This works fine. A way to delete files has been the concern which is now resolved.
ERGdb workouts in Zwift
Here we include both a video and instructions on how to load MRC files into Zwift.
ERGdb Workouts in TrainerRoad
Watch the Video Below Step 1 – Install Trainer Road Workout Creator Download and install Workout creator. Here is a link. After installing it and getting it working, log-in using your TR username and password. Step 2 – Download a Workout from ERGdb MRC files are the simplest choice. Step 3 – Drag
Upload ERG or MRC Files
I believe the following 30-second video says it all. Upload your MRC or ERG file to save it in the cloud. This also allows you to download a Zwift file. EnjoyAlex
