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Yes, we call this HR+ and it is premium. But you can use the app for free and record you hr. I am not sure what you mean by simple HR.

One other user mentioned that Justo is not working. If you contact me at support@trainerday.com we can work on figuring it out. I will contact Elite also. Some times deleting our app, restarting your phone and reinstalling fixes this type of issue. Make sure you don't have a garmin or anything else connected to your Justo.

Free version is the same as paid regarding controlling the trainer. It should work. occasionally people have to uninstall our app, restart their phone and reinstall the app. So try that. Make sure you don't have Garmin or other app or anything connected. If it is connected directly to your phone in phone bluetooth settings try removing that. If you contact me at support@trainerday.com we can get it working I am sure.

Hi, you can download the community workouts for free and upload to Indievelo, but I need to reach out to them for us to get direct integration working. I like and use Indievelo too some times :) Sadly, we are a bit too busy now to do this quickly.

That is a shame but I appreciate you have other priorities

You can manually put ZWO files into the Indievelo documents folder.

@@bobdynowski3166 Yes just to be clear. You can push a coach jack plan to My Plans and download a whole zip file and unzip and copy it to Indievelo folder. The process probably takes 5 minutes once you have the plan.

My hero!!! If you need anything, our forums are the best place to reach me but I try to respond here as well. Best of luck to your winter season. Yes you are right, it would make sense for Garmin to have something like this.

Hi, I don't exactly understand the question. You can build what is called an ERG workout that will control a smart trainer in our app. You can load that workout into our app or any other app that supports this like Zwift. You could have say a spotify or youtube play list and play it while doing the workout but I am not sure how the workout would be related to the music. So I am confused at your question.

@@TrainerDay Hi, I was thinking about an Indoor Group Cycling class, where music should motivate and push the participants through the session. The rhythm might be the consistent beat of the music that guides your pedal strokes, while the pace is how fast you’re pedaling at any given moment.

Did you use sync or send to? Sync should send one day at a time each day if your are free TP member. Send to sends the whole plan to one day. Generally this is a limitation of TP free version. If you used sync and not send to this sounds like a bug and if you contact us on the forum and confirm we will fix it and give updates.

You sound very experienced in this matter. So do Zone 2 Heart rate for all your rides and race once a week, maybe twice occasionally... Should keep things reasonably in check. TrainerDay is the best for the Z2 heart rate with our automatic power control to keep you at a specific heart rate... you could even use our app to control your power like this while getting your zwift bling.

@@TrainerDay Would the TrainerDay Plan Builder adapt the suggested training if I enter my planned races in the calendar or do I have to do that manually? Thanks

@@GeorgAndTheBike So it's a static plan but the builder allows you to modify it very quickly and it will change your calendar, so you don't have to manually update the calendar. If you know all your races when creating the plan then it will adjust.

Hello, I am more than happy to help. Our philosophy is very directly focused on solving exactly the problem you are discussing here. I have avoided big burn out like you but I have touched on it many times. My partner is world tour coach and he also thinks in very similar manner. I suggest you do a base period as long as you can. This can be this super pure base 2 only using what we call HR+ which controls your trainer based on heart rate. Start there, once you are feeling great and excited about cycling then you can transition to a Coach Jack plan. Our forum is the best place for these conversations so that more people benefit. I am also in this re-entry zone 2 base period myself right now. I am doing mostly 7 days a week and almost exlusively zone 1 / zone 2. If you are smart enough about it 7 days a week of 30 minutes and maybe 1 long day can be enough. I know one other smart guy in this stuff that feels 45 minutes is the minimum. But 3 days a week to 6 is probably best. I do take days off when I feel like it. I did do one hard ride with a fast friend last weekend and this week was a recovery week with a lot less riding. I love these discussions so happy to have them. Cycling can be a total blast when you learn to appreciate and get good and even fast at low intensity training.

@@TrainerDay In the meantime, thank you for your response and your encouragement. The aspect you touched on is exactly what I was interested in. In practice, training in z2 based on heart rate and the connection to the interactive roller which adjusts the tension of the roller to bring you to the set heart rate (65% of the maximum heart rate). I just wanted to ask you if I can or should create a workout based on heart rate and if so, how should I do it? Or is it sufficient to connect the trainer to the app which switches automatically, once the app has recognized that a smart trainer has been connected, in HR+ mode and then with the + and - keys I slowly adjust the increase in roller tension to reach the right frequency.Thanks again for your support.

@@gianlucaierpi2258 You don't need to create a workout. Press quick start press, press Hr+ and set your target hr with arrows and start pedalling. That's it. Another trick is to turn on auto extend in the settings and pedal until you you reach your desired duration (longer than 60 minutes). You can create an hr workout but with those steps there is no need to.

@@TrainerDay thanks a lot. I also posted a comment on this aspect on the forum. You'll probably see it. Thanks again

Good question. So I would say there is very mixed opinions on "what is zone 2." To start with I would say it is not Zone 2 :) Even though Dr Phil Maffetone is more running focused, I really believe he has the most experience in this field. He and his followers believe there almost is no lower limit, meaning you might get as much benefit from Zone 1 as zone 2 and for sure it is considered safer to be under your limit than over. Maffetone's tests and students have shown this over and over again. I witnessed this with myself running, that I kept the speed the same but let my HR keep dropping it started at 145 and eventually got to 100 for the same (slow) speed and my max HR was about 182. Maffetone also talks about targeting -10bpm to make sure you keep under your max. So I would say from -20 to -10 is likely safest for progress. I would say setting up a standardized test like the MAF test comparing HR to power in Z2 and watching progress is the sure way to determine if it is working for you.

@@TrainerDaythank you Alex for the detailed response. That sounds like a great plan. Apologies if this is a dumb question but what is the MAF test? 😂

@@lionelhutz3170 So the problem with FTP tests is they have a strong contribution of anerobic energy, so you start doing base training and you temporarily lose some anerobic power (easy to get back). So you need another test. Any chance we can continue this discusson on our forum? And more people can benefit from the answer? So re ask this same question? "How to do a maf test for cycling?"

@@lionelhutz3170 I hit respond but I don't see it. If you don't mind can you ask this on our forum?

@@lionelhutz3170 forums.trainerday.com

Lo siento David. If you buy from our website you can try it and if not happy I will refund your money. So it's kind of like a free trial.

Absolutely nothing. It's just a bit more distracting but fine. Zwift visuals motivate some people and so it can be a good choice.

Sorry I missed this. Google or ChatGPT is the best way to answer that. The problem is TSS is not super accurate but still from a broad stroke perspective it can help you know when to rest more.

Hi, we connect to Garmin connect but we can not directly save completed activities there. You must go through another service like rungap or similar.

Hi, no you do not need to do a ramp test first. It's a better experience if you approximately know your FTP and threshold HR but not critical for zone 2 HR training

Not yet, we hope / plan to have a PC app for next winter.

Team effort all the way.... I do the product and coding, you do the training and racing :)

TrainerRoad is great, the user experience is first class. While we appear similar we are very different in training philosophy, I would argue ours aligns closer to modern science. As you know TrainerRoad is very TSS focused. With Coach Jack we are very much interval count and duration focused. So because of secondary work the workouts might look similar, in realty they are not. In training plans we also believe in starting easy and ending moderately hard. Anyway, if you are happy with TR, use TR, I recommended, they are the best at what they do. TrainerDay is made by and for people that TR did not exactly meet our needs or are unwilling to pay that much.

@@TrainerDay I appreciate your response. I am giving a Coach Jack plan a shot right now. I kinda winged it with the plan type, starting intensity (1 felt way too easy, very subtle differences up to 10), and the "ride feel" setting. The starting intensity and ride feel are a little confusing. I do wish the documentation overall was a bit better. And I still stick by my original comment that I'd like to see the TrainerDay-created (aka Coach Jack) workouts be the only ones visible in the Workout Search; with user-contributed workouts optional. Better yet, take the Coach Jack algorithm and use it for a guided, on-demand, workout creator. Select your workout length, energy systems (endurance vs. VO2), interval length (not specifically, but like a slider almost from super short to super long), etc. That would be a really cool feature that I haven't seen anywhere else. And then have it so that Coach Jack can build on those custom workouts automatically through the weeks (either via intensity, interval length, or repetition, your choice)

@@jmvdigital So regarding Coach Jack, the intensity increases the main work and the ride feel increases the secondary work. You can see here the different parts of the workout near the bottom trainerday.com/coach-jack/

@@jmvdigital You are right we need more documentation and better polishing like TR, to make things much clearer. Regarding workouts, if you use the popularity index then it gives you stuff that other people feel is valuable. For me a a workout on it's own does not really mean anything, it's fine just doing anything but curated workouts, I just don't see the value of. You obviously have to be a little more discerning but even in TR you could pick a workout that is too easy or one that is too hard. A single workout does not change your fitness level and randomly choosing ours or there, you will get a similar benefit. Now they tend to do a lot near sweet spot which makes it more likely anyone with enough will power could finish them but that does not make them better in my opinion. I think our user based choices are way better but obviously there is tons of junk in there. We try to use the TODAY feature to dynamically find interesting and reasonable workouts. It would be easier to chat on our forum or email if you want to better understand our thinking on workouts or Coach Jack.

@@TrainerDay I appreciate the responses. That helps a lot! Did my first TD workout yesterday.

I just tried it works perfect for me. Make sure you are on the right page, have chrome browser, maybe you have a plugin that is blocking it... Make sure you chrome is up to date.

Sorry so slow. It's best for indoor cyclists wanting to follow performance based training.

We have duplicated this issue. We are working on it.

I just used it a few days ago so it should. I have seen multiple people say it does not work and every time I try it does. You can contact me on the trainerday forum if you want. I can try to give you more help. If you try to follow it again and it does not work let me know and I will test and verify nothing changed in the last couple days.

I would make sure you are using chrome and don't have any extra plugins installed like language translators or ad blockers.

@@TrainerDay it did work for me a few times untill today.I'll try chrome and let you know. Thanks for your answer

@@TrainerDay same with chrome. Error message:Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'setTimeout'

It's a perfect way to train from my perspective. I guess you use some recording device and possibly something to control ERG if you are using a smart trainer?

@@TrainerDay I used to have a simple fluid redistance trainer for years. Now I got a Kickr Snap with a Garmin to control and record. I use resistance mode for training, using gears and cadence to vary intensity. Erg mode I basically use only for programmed ramp tests as its too difficult to hit the step power precisely enough at higher intensities. The powermeter is connected to the snap by ANT to accurately control resistance in Erg mode thus avoiding rolling resistance issues. This setup allows to vary intensities quickly and avoid lot of programming. A cycling friend of mine uses Zwift. Each his preferred way. I still beat him any day with less tech involved 😉.

@@gerrysecure5874 Oh cool, if that works for you, it's a fine solution. You can do the same using our app if you ever want a bigger screen and a few other features, even our free app will do that but if you like all your data in Garmin connect than your solution might be simplist. We have stuff like programmable slopes, which is like programmable resistance. Anyway, sounds like you have a fine solution and the price is right :)

Sorry I missed this. For TrainerDay there is free and paid version. You can do a lot with the free version but obviously the paid features make things easier.

Just copy or cut all the rows below that row and paste it over the top. I actually think if you just leave a blank row it also works fine and will be automatically removed when you save.

The easy way is just add it to your favorites and press refresh in the app. All the workouts are in the app as well if you search (click on list icon).