I recently switched from a Tacx to a Kickr indoor trainer. I’m mainly doing sessions synced over from Training Peaks, while listening to podcasts or watching videos. The Tacx app was good for this, with a useful display, audio count down to the next interval so I could prepare for the change in power/cadence, etc. The Wahoo app forces me to switch between screens constantly, I don’t have the audio cues, rudimentary design, feels a bit unfinished. It’s bad enough that I’m thinking about going back to the basic, noisy, wheel-on Tacx.
If you’re using TP anyway you can just use TP virtual. I might be mistaken, but I think there’s a “focus” mode that allows you to just do the workouts without the virtual world environment
If you are looking for something lightweight and mobile-friendly, TrainerDay is worth a look. It syncs perfectly with TrainingPeaks and focuses strictly on the workout data and ERG control without the heavy graphics. It’s much closer to the streamlined experience you had with the Tacx app.
If you are looking for something lightweight and mobile-friendly, TrainerDay is worth a look. It syncs perfectly with TrainingPeaks and focuses strictly on the workout data and ERG control without the heavy graphics. It’s much closer to the streamlined experience you had with the Tacx app.
I’m sort of making my peace with the Wahoo app, but I’m starting to wonder if i’m the only one using it?
I doubt anyone at Wahoo uses it on a regular basis, they would have improved the quality by now, it really is a shoddy piece of software, sorry to be blunt.
I’ve got to disagree with you here, man. I use the wahoo app all the time and I think it’s exceptionally good at what it does. And, I think they’ve made some significant improvements to it in the last year or so, including the wahoo analytics. Sure it doesn’t do everything but what free app does?
Do you have another head unit? Like a garmin or something else? You could control the trainer with your garmin iirc.
If not, what about ic trainer? 30 day free trial, $2.50 USD/month after that. I can’t vouch for it but it might be worth checking out.
As a rule though, in my experience, with free stuff, you get what you pay for
It’s a companion app, so part of the solution that you’re buying. Gamin manages this just fine. A little bit of feedback might actually help them improve it? Maybe it’s just the Android version that needs a little attention?
If you’ve found a way to get an audio prompt when an interval is about to change, let me know. I prefer that to staring at the app, and I’m used to that from other apps.
Well, no, not really. You’re buying an incredible bit of hardware in the Kickr that is compatible with nearly everything there is on the market. They don’t pitch the Kickr and WA as an all in one solution for indoor training. There’s horses for courses and wahoo is much better at hardware than they are at software. They’re basically a hardware company.
So, if it doesn’t do the very specific thing you want it to do then you’ll need to look elsewhere. I get audio prompts when I use my head unit and workouts can be uploaded there. Do you not have one?
Edit: also, you said you’re used to audio prompts from other apps? What apps?
My son stands next to me in my pain cave and yells at me when an interval is coming up, and then whines that I’m not riding hard enough, and chastises me when someone passes me and tells me (loudly) that I need to catch up.
He’s not free, tho.
And he only works inside.
He also gets bored after 30 minutes and goes to watch TV if my workout isn’t challenging enough.
But he does make me feel a bit like Thibaut Pinot, sometimes.
