Venturing out of the running world..I decided on Dec 6 I decided I'd try a Zwift Group workout. I got up, booted up my laptop attached it to my trainer and TV monitor.
Logged into the Zwift Screen and joined a Zwift Group work out. Once joining I found my avatar on the 'pier' and was in the virtual world. The warm up was nice....made the next interval and basically lasted about 38 minutes of the workout before quitting the ride. Ok - yea not the best choice of a work out when one hadn't done ANY FTP work in some time. lol.
What I learned...
1) I was able to join a group workout.
2) it's true you stay together in a group workout.
3) it was still fun to watch the avatar screen.
Research continues....
Links I use constantly:
https://zwiftblog.com/ - all things Zwifty....independent.
https://zwiftpower.com - I LIVE in this site. I love it...since I have registered I am able to see my time zone rides much easier. If you hit the i - it opens up and gives you the event information.
Next up....workout on my own....I joined the FB group called: Zwift Fitness Group
At the time - Coach Pav Bryan was giving a FREE 4 week plan for FTP build. FREE and help on how to use the group workouts. Done! Got the plan and did another workout on Zwift. The plan had the workouts already built in Training Peaks. His email informed how to upload to Zwift. More information on the virtual world.
My work out view and experience. Since it was my workout it was less stressful. I started on my own and only paid attention to me.
The little green music stand looking think is the display to show that my avatar is doing a workout. Green indicates I am on an interval.
The window on the left shows the entire workout. The middle is the interval I am doing with the time left/watts i am supposed to hold vs what i am holding. The far right - high is the MAP of the where i am riding. I am the orange triangle and the blue dots are other riders.
There is also the grade displayed but that DOES NOT matter when you are doing a group workout as your trainer 'should' default to ERG meaning the elevation does not matter, you don't shift, the watts are managed by the trainer. The long window are all the riders near me. this is where you can see chatter from other riders.
Logged into the Zwift Screen and joined a Zwift Group work out. Once joining I found my avatar on the 'pier' and was in the virtual world. The warm up was nice....made the next interval and basically lasted about 38 minutes of the workout before quitting the ride. Ok - yea not the best choice of a work out when one hadn't done ANY FTP work in some time. lol.
What I learned...
1) I was able to join a group workout.
2) it's true you stay together in a group workout.
3) it was still fun to watch the avatar screen.
Research continues....
Links I use constantly:
https://zwiftblog.com/ - all things Zwifty....independent.
https://zwiftpower.com - I LIVE in this site. I love it...since I have registered I am able to see my time zone rides much easier. If you hit the i - it opens up and gives you the event information.
Next up....workout on my own....I joined the FB group called: Zwift Fitness Group
At the time - Coach Pav Bryan was giving a FREE 4 week plan for FTP build. FREE and help on how to use the group workouts. Done! Got the plan and did another workout on Zwift. The plan had the workouts already built in Training Peaks. His email informed how to upload to Zwift. More information on the virtual world.
My work out view and experience. Since it was my workout it was less stressful. I started on my own and only paid attention to me.
The little green music stand looking think is the display to show that my avatar is doing a workout. Green indicates I am on an interval.
The window on the left shows the entire workout. The middle is the interval I am doing with the time left/watts i am supposed to hold vs what i am holding. The far right - high is the MAP of the where i am riding. I am the orange triangle and the blue dots are other riders.
There is also the grade displayed but that DOES NOT matter when you are doing a group workout as your trainer 'should' default to ERG meaning the elevation does not matter, you don't shift, the watts are managed by the trainer. The long window are all the riders near me. this is where you can see chatter from other riders.
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