Each Sunday I’ll post a Smart Trainer session that you can do in about 60 minutes to enhance your cycling.
Gareth’s VO₂ Max Intervals Plus One builds on a proven session by adding an extra round of high-intensity work. With progressive ramps leading into repeated VO₂ max efforts, this workout challenges your ability to go deep, recover, and repeat—ideal for cyclists and triathletes looking to boost top-end power and endurance.
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This is a short, sweet session that although lacking in some physiological considerations packs a lot of punch into the 30-minutes. It will build strength and power, with the limited time available. It is a great session regardless of your goals, but especially if you have limited time to train.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Beep! Beep! Beep!
Gareth’s VO₂ Max Intervals is a smart-trainer session designed to push your top-end power and repeatability. With progressive ramp efforts leading into multiple VO₂ max blocks, this workout challenges your ability to go deep, recover, and go again—ideal for cyclists and triathletes looking to build high-intensity fitness and race-ready strength on the bike.
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Hairpin Wizard is a smart-trainer session focused on control, cadence, and smooth power through changing efforts. Designed to simulate the demands of tight, rolling terrain, this workout helps cyclists and triathletes maintain momentum, manage intensity shifts, and build the coordination and resilience needed to ride efficiently under pressure on the bike.
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ERG mode makes indoor training easy—but that convenience can come at a cost. This article explores how over-reliance on ERG can limit pacing, power control, and real-world cycling skills, and what to do instead to become a stronger, more capable cyclist both indoors and outdoors.
View More There’s something satisfying about ERG mode.
Riding the Line is a smart-trainer workout that challenges you to balance efforts just above and below threshold. With short high-intensity surges followed by controlled riding, this session builds power, control, and resilience—helping cyclists and triathletes improve their ability to recover quickly and maintain strong, consistent efforts under pressure on the bike.
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Climb On [Lite] is a smart-trainer session designed to simulate rolling climbs with changing gradients. By alternating between steady efforts and over-under intensity, this workout builds strength, control, and endurance. Ideal for cyclists and triathletes, it develops the ability to stay smooth and efficient as effort rises and falls on the bike.
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Dave Scott’s HIIT for the Holidays Minus is a dynamic smart-trainer session that challenges cadence control, power, and focus. With constant changes in intensity and position, this workout builds strength, speed, and resilience on the bike—ideal for cyclists and triathletes looking to improve coordination, efficiency, and race-ready fitness in a single session.
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Although a RAMP test is a tool utilised to assess your cycling fitness whilst preparing for some other cycling related goal. I’ve found recently that a number of cyclist’s goals are purely related to improving their measure of performance. What is the best way to train for a RAMP test? With a RAMP test of course…….. but we can be smarter and put the focus on deferent components of fitness. This workout whilst not being a RAMP test, has a number of key features of a RAMP test and puts the focus on improving VO2 Max with the intense five minute effort at the end. This workout will benefit all cyclists and triathletes – especially road cyclists, short course triathletes and mountain bikers. But I will also benefit athletes targeting longer events and is suitable to use in the off-season to develop general fitness.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: 5 Minutes Alone Plus One
🚴♂️ Boost Your Cycling Power with the Functional Threshold Power (FTP) CYCLING Training Plan! 🚴♀️
Ready to take your cycling to the next level? Our 6-week FTP CYCLING Training Plan is designed just for intermediate cyclists like you who can comfortably ride for 3 hours or more. This plan is your ticket to improving your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) by 15-30 Watts—a typical result over the 6-week period! 💪
View More Tuesday Training Plan: Functional Threshold Power (FTP) CYCLING Training Plan (Intermediate 6 week Plan)