Before spending thousands chasing marginal gains, make sure you’re getting the most from the bike you already own. Build your fitness, improve your aero position, develop bike-handling skills, practise smart pacing and dial in your fuelling. Earn your speed through training first, then let equipment upgrades enhance your performance.
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Stop Racing Your Long Rides: Train With Purpose for Better Triathlon Performance
Stop turning every long ride into a race. Learn why controlled endurance riding, purposeful intensity and smart fuelling can make you a stronger triathlete. By giving each session a clear purpose and saving hard efforts for when they matter, you’ll build fitness consistently and arrive at race day better prepared.
View More Stop Racing Your Long Rides: Train With Purpose for Better Triathlon PerformanceSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Hairpin Wizard Plus
Hairpin Wizard Plus combines repeated surges above threshold with controlled tempo riding to build aerobic strength, pacing control, and cadence efficiency. Inspired by a Zwift workout, this session challenges your ability to recover while still riding strongly, making it ideal for cyclists and triathletes wanting smoother, stronger sustained power.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Hairpin Wizard PlusSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Coach Ray’s Tempo Cadence in Control
Tempo is the intensity that can be sustained for longer durations. It is the intensity that is used in marathon mountain bike events, Ironman and Ironman 70.3 events. This session gives three short exposures to this intensity, with a variety of cadences. The changes in cadences with give a different training stimulus building strength at the lower cadences. This workout is great to include early in a build up, or later in a build up to enhance aerobic efficiency or as a recovery session.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Coach Ray’s Tempo Cadence in ControlSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Gareth’s VO2 Max Intervals Plus One
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Gareth’s VO2 Max Intervals Plus OneSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Gareth’s VO2 Max Intervals
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Gareth’s VO2 Max IntervalsSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Hairpin Wizard
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.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Hairpin WizardSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Riding the Line
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 LineSunday Smart-Trainer Session: Climb On [Lite]
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]Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Dave Scott’s HIIT for the Holiday’s Minus
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