Each Sunday I’ll post a Smart Trainer session that you can do in about 60 minutes to enhance your cycling.
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Riding the Line
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Climb On [Lite]
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Dave Scott’s HIIT for the Holiday’s Minus
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)
Judas Priest is a demanding smart-trainer workout that blends explosive 150% FTP surges with sustained threshold riding. Designed to build both top-end power and durable endurance, this session challenges cyclists and triathletes to manage early intensity before settling into strong, controlled efforts that develop race-ready fitness and resilience on the bike.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Judas Priest
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
“The Priest” is specifically designed for building power and endurance through a combination of threshold and VO2 max intervals. It’s a popular choice for cyclists looking to improve their performance in races or long rides. The workout focuses on a structured approach to training, utilising different workout types to target specific physiological adaptations. Threshold efforts to improve lactate tolerance and endurance; and VO2 max efforts aim to increase oxygen uptake and power output. Although this workout is best suited to road cyclists (particularly criterium events), it can prove valuable as part of a general fitness phase for all cyclists, whether road cyclist, mountain biker and triathlete.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: The Priest
🚴♂️ 8-Week Faster Cyclist Training Plan with Coach Ray🚴♀️
Are you ready to take your cycling performance to the next level? 🚀 Join our 8-Week Faster Cyclist Training Plan designed for cyclists who ride 3 times a week and currently have their longest ride between 1:20hr and 2 hours. This programme is specifically crafted to boost your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) and make you a stronger, faster rider. 💪
View More Thursday Tarining Plan: Faster Cyclist 8 Week Challenge (3 rides per week) for cyclists comfortable riding 1:20-2hour