In the software it’d be good to be able to see the target power & duration of the next interval coming up, for example…
“Up next: 1 min @ 324W”
It’d help to set the appropriate gearing/cadence quickly when using a dumb trainer. If you’re doing a short high intensity interval you don’t want to be messing around trying to dial in the correct gearing/cadence for half of it.
I know you can see the power profile of the workout in the graph, but you can’t see the exact power target that will be up next (unless I’ve missed it).
Along those same lines, you used to be able to hover with the cursor over any point of a workout you were active in doing, and it would display the target power. This was handy for knowing what was coming next and like you mentioned, picking the right gear. That went away a long time ago, and is one of the features I’d like to see back. It’s especially handy when you are viewing your workout in a “minimal” window, where the “Y” axis is so condensed vertically.
Dare I mention that I do like the list of durations and power targets that Zwift gives you when doing a workout down the left hand side of the screen. Not sure how this would work if your’re using a phone for your workouts but on a computer screen it works well.
I’ve missed that for a long time as well (I think when they made the change from Adobe Air?) - - never really understood why it went away. I commented to the support group at the time and it was made note of, I think, but I haven’t brought it up recently. I make it a point on the website or in the desktop app before a ride to hover over the intervals to get an idea of what they’ll be, but that functionality is lost once the ride starts.
I use a dumb trainer and, respectfully, such a feature wouldn’t be of much use to me. A given workout almost always hits the same power target in each work interval, or something very close. The warmup also usually has you hit those targets, and I use those early efforts to figure out my gearing. Knowing a specific wattage wouldn’t actually mean much to me in that regard. I’m also not sure how you’d implement it for intervals that ramp up or down. From my perspective, the current workout interface is pretty much dialed, and more information would detract rather than enhance the experience.
My biggest concern with the VO2 spikes are the duration. I’d like to know if they are 20, 30 , 60 seconds! Big difference knowing ahead of time how long you will be nailing it for.
For the ramps, if you know the power level for the start of the next interval, that tells you the power for the end of the current ramped interval. Here is an example of how they could display the upcoming interval.
If you take a few minutes prior to doing the workout, you can click on the workout
Read the text that gives you a basic summary about the work and rest intervals. The percentage of FTP and time are listed.
On mobile, use your finger to trace over the workout graph. You will see the precise wattage and time for each interval. This also works on the PC app with sliding the mouse over the graph.
You can do the same on the web, as #2 above.
I know its not automatic or in the workout, but you can easily go in with more info on hand.
The workout screen in the zwift companion app is actually quite good. Has the intervals and you can swipe to skip (can’t repeat intervals) and shows the upcoming power target and duration of the next inerval. The colour coding for zones is very useful. Not sure why others don’t use this colour coding. Would like the ability to easily (not pause and manually move the workout maker) skip/repeat an interval. However, where I do like the TR app is the additional metrics…avg power, accumulated TSS, calories.
also the extend cooldown/warmup is a very welcome addition. Just needs to be slightly easier to navigate, adjust the workout on the fly.
I too would like to see this to avoid unecessary spikes, and though the target wattage could flash red with the new target for a couple of times in the last 5 seconds before the next interval.
Just wondering if anyone at TR has taken this request on board? It is very frustrating when you you’ve got workouts where the %ftp constantly changes and you have no idea beforehand how hard you need to go. Zwift trumps TR with this. You know exactly what is coming up ahead of time.
For those without Erg mode or smart trainers can I request the interval wattage number gets updated say 3 seconds before the change in a different colour . This is to anticipate what effort is required to start the next interval. Without this those with basic trainers have to either apply more power that is prescribed or stay and wait for the change to occur and then adapt to suit. Either way the transition is very clunky and misses the start of the interval.
… I just want to know 
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