leebo thanks for the reply but that is not what happens on my computer. When I download a video the circle spins all the way around continually. It never progresses as you suggest. I too am running this on windows.
I just tried it again to make sure I’m not crazy. At least on this point, I am in fact not crazy!
Hmm. Sorry I can’t be more help then. Do you know if it is downloading at all, or jsut hanging? You can see the download progressing by looking at the file sizes, thought that won’t tell you how far from completion you are.
The reason I ask this is because it is not downloading and is just hanging then perhaps there is another issue in the mix. I don’t know if the minions can help.
The above aside, I totally agree that what you’re asking for is relatively essential.
Yes it is downloading. A file with a video will typically download in 10 minutes, give or take. To be fair, I have never stood there and watched it the whole time. But I have never seen it where it was not just spinning.
Well, in addition to providing the clearly popular features lost by the switch, may I add …
Dynamic integration - apols if suggested already - I’ve tried a few SUF training programs and when riding outside @thewend I’ve tried to do something broadly similar but you have to go with the terrain, the traffic and the conditions and those rarely get close to the targets. Also many road rides are in company, which restricts things further. So I’d like the plan to consume my outside rides data (Wahoo Roam) and then adjust my remaining indoor rides in the SYSTM plan accordingly. Making it a smart plan if you like, that is able to adapt.
Performance section - once a SUF ride has been completed I’d like a percentage % score for how closely I manage to mirror the cadence targets … performance feedback on how well I ‘did what I were told’ if you like. I know this would provide me with a greater incentive to stay tuned (if only to beat my performance personal best against previously ridden results). Would be even better to get options on my ‘performance %’ to see it as ‘whole ride’ or ‘exclude the breaks/ rest sections’ or ‘from minute xx to minute yy’ on demand. Would enrichen the experience.
Health section - lots to go at here but I’d prefer a self-serve approach so two feature suggestions here along such lines (1) be great to compare my completed ride Ave & Max HR to a filtered choice of age, sex, rider type (comparing to the anonymised aggregated data your servers are holding). So you could see how you compare in your self configured category and also (2) to easily compare your Ave & Max HR against the same ride you’ve previously ridden, also showing the prevailing 4DP of each ride (in case you’ve retested since).
KickR Climb - be great if SYSTM could make the K-climb experience more immersive somehow - maybe shudder the front forks when on cobbles plus I’d vote for a larger percentage graphic (top right) and up and down arrows as climb moves might make it more immersive too.
Sufferfest changes rollback - if we could each choose just one: my vote would go to reinstate ‘Abandon Me’ intros in existing videos (and not mess with the outros - just in case that was a future intention). Make new ones with different, ones just don’t mess with the old.
Wahoo Headwind - augment a SYSTM app feature which enables the ‘SPD’ button to be set at either ‘Cadence’ (as now) or ‘Wattage as proportion of FTP’ (from 4DP). There are many times when HR is low but I’d like more cooling and the same is true of cadence: wattage/ftp would provide a more effective cooling parameter imo.
Wahoo Roam - add max gradient to display options. (not a SYSTM thing I know but maybe one for the water cooler in Wahoo hq?)
Same would love this! But this is incredibly hard given the variability in cycle length. I’m close to 4 weeks so just run a 3 hard one rest week plan configuration and tweak things by a day here and there.
I bought a bluetooth remote (~$20 USD) for my laptop (even though it’s within reach). It has a full keyboard on the underside and acts as a mouse too, if you want. I haven’t actually used it with SYSTM though because it’s generally set and forget. Maybe we just need better keyboard navigation in the app?
Thanks tunatorndo. When you say it acts as a mouse too, how does that work? Since my laptop is not within reach, the mouse feature is what I would need.
Typically I get along fine with my remote keyboard to play/pause switch erg/Level 1-9 and intensity ±.
I only need the mouse for starting and switching workouts and hope this will get improved over time in system so i can get along with just a tv remote or keyboard but It is OK.
Apart from the streaming bits as that’s good enough for me. I think all these “WANTS” are exactly what i’d want to.
In a similar vein, it would be so awesome if the videos in some way responded to your current performance. Obviously it’s prerecorded so you cannot chnage the actual footage but the messaging could be dynamic.
The Bat is a great example because that is all about messaging. I’m definetly a negative person and will berate myself but when a video says something like “close that gap” my thought process goes like this “that’s nonsense the gap will close because this is prerecorded video whether i stop or not” but the video text could be changed to be something like “close that gap” and then if you can see the efforts are being put it in add some encouragement such as “awesome work, you are a gap closer!” etc etc
I realise that we probably should not have the opposite which is when targets are not being hit you start calling us “useless” !
It’s more a nice to have than a must have feature: a proper updater. Show release notes before installing an update. Even better offer “remind me later” and “skip update” options.
The Health Section I’ve seen being used on my HRV4Training App which lets you compare Age/Gender and a host of data sets RmSSD/HR/HRV and Normalised RMSSD so I’m sure this could rejigged for Power/HR/Cadence/Normalised Power
