Intervals Workouts on Smart Trainer (Not in ERG Mode)

[david]

Workout builder

It was suggested by a new Patreon over email and was easy for me to implement while fixing your MMP bug: Element MaxEffort: An interval without ERG mode but enough resistance for the rider to self-select a strong effort. I don’t use Zwift myself so haven’t seen it in action.

[david]

Apparently it doesn’t work all that well …

"maxeffort" does not work on Zwift

So in theory this is really nice, and I would think it should set the trainer in some type of slope mode. In reality I found that it sets resistance to “full tilt” and unless you’re coming in hot with cadence and gearing, it will bring you to a halt in a few seconds.

[app4g]

This might be of interest

Workouts in slope mode

I’m working on integrating Intervals.icu workouts (using its Workout Builder) to automatically trigger between ERG Mode and SLOPE Mode (no user intervention). Essentially a SLOPE based structured workout. (w/o ramps) eg: -1m 1% -10m 2% -1m 1% or even a mix ERG & SLOPE Mode -1m 50% ← ERG -10m 2% ← SLOPE -1m 50% ← ERG essentially, anything <= 10% Power will be SLOPE mode w/ the % value being sent to the trainer. No Slope Ramp support tho