I’d also like to emphasise that the music matching the effort is one of the most important aspects for me, if not the most important.
I love the humour of the SUF videos as well as the footage, and I prefer those videos to all the other content. Ultimately though, the SYSTM platform’s unique selling point for me is the music — that’s what motivates me to get through the hard workouts when I’ve already closed my eyes and am just focusing on my breathing.
I could even live with a solution, where I would start some sort of playlist on Spotify that has been provided by Wahoo and more or less replicates the core idea of the SUF soundtrack.
However, if I find myself progressively doing workouts without effort-matching music, I will move on to another platform.
Update: I haven’t mentioned the 4DP as an unique selling points compared to Zwift and similar platforms. Whenever I did workouts on other platforms with video/animated content, I found that the MAP/NM values just didn’t correspond to my actual levels. I always felt that the workout wasn’t as efficient as it could have been.
I was wondering if it would be possible to release “There is No Try”, “The Trick”, “Butter” and “Recharger” as “no vids”? This would allow continuity in the history section of the Wahoo X app enabling performance comparisons to the original and no longer available video versions of these workouts. These could then be done on TPV, Zwift etc.. Unfortunately, the OL versions appear as completely new workouts in the app history.
I was excited to see the Costa Blanca videos released — it’s an awesome place to film OL videos, and I was actually there when Mike was recording (I saw him filming in Moraira and then at a café just before the start of the Rates climb). But now my feelings are mixed because of how the old SUF videos have been treated. I came here as a long-time Sufferfest user, but I don’t think I’ll resubscribe with the SUF videos being taken off the platform. Maybe I’ll do these OL videos to remember the awesome time I had at Costa Blanca — but that’s it.
Hey @Rupert. I am actually a big fan of all the original Sufferfest music, but particularly the ‘indie’ stuff. I have been using the app a long time. - As has been called out by other folks it always had fantastic use of music suited and fitted to workout intensity and tempo. The original vid that hooked me to Sufferfest was ‘Hell hath no Fury’ - the driving hypnotic dance rythm over the first 20 minute tempo/FTP session as emma pooley rode her breakaway effort was superbly fitted to the effort. This care and attention to workouts as an immersive sound and vision experience while you basically ‘suffered’ horribly was very addictive and totally original in my experience and was the USP of Sufferfest and is what still keeps me here. If you have to lose the original videos for a while, please do everything possible to keep the music ‘as-is’, suited & locked to the efforts.
@Rupert You could probably try both old and new. The important thing as others have said is getting the best fit and timing you can to the intervals being performed. If you are thinking of adding music to a previous Suf workout becoming OL then the old music must be a good place to start. Brand new OL’s would be good to find some new music that fitted the workout and the ride being performed.
I know it’s been said, I think maybe I’ve said it before too on some thread, but RECHARGER (as it has been for last couple years or so, I think) is at the very TOP OF MY LIST of workouts. ANYTIME I needed just a FUN RIDE, didn’t need any real focus, no demand for anything tough, didn’t matter what the 4DP numbers would be, only had a little bit of time or maybe just wanted another 30 minutes of work to add to something else, IT WAS ALWAYS RECHARGER. THAT WORKOUT and MUSIC WAS PERFECT DELIGHT!!
If ANY FACTORS could help me decide to come back to SYSTM, RECHARGER would be at the TOP OF THE LIST!
Exactly. I do Recharger once a week during my trainer season. Not only because it’s short and easy, but because of how positive the video and storyline is.
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Marc Madiot hanging out of the team car and yelling at Thibaut Pinot to Go! Go! Go!
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We have a car. We could have Mike Cotty leaning out of the car, yelling encouragement to Phil Gaimon. We have the technology. We can make this video better than it was—harder, funnier.
