That makes some sense if you don’t have a coach and you don’t use all their metrics. The real question then is whether to ditch Training Peaks.
However, if you do want training plans, then Trainer Road seems like the best deal. It is cheap and it has the basics of progression. The net, is that if you don’t do training plans, then just getting Strava isn’t a bad idea. Note that while you don’t get a plan by default, you can get weekly TSS goals for an event. You can kind of figure this out with the charts, but they make it nice.The more valuable things are that it tracks your Power curve, that is how much power you hold for 1 seconds, 5 seconds, 1 minutes etc and the same the heart rate, you can look at this over seasons, so you can see your HR curve and power curve over time. The technical terms are Acute Training Load (ATL), Chronic Training Load (CTL), which is a horrible name, should really be Short and Long-term load and then Training Stress Balance (TSB) which is the subtraction. And, they have not just TSS, but divide it into three “opaque” measures which is Fitness (this is really a long term smooth TSS average), Fatigue (which is the shorter term one so what you did last week) and Form (which is sort of the subtraction, if your Form is up, that is short term, then you are likely tired, so you get a negative fatigue. As extra cost options, you can get prebuilt plans from coaches. They now integrate other sources of data like your weight and other health metrics, but the main thing is a zillion, literally a zillion charts.
They also just added TSS estimate from heart rate, before now, you had to have a power meter so it didn’t work for old rides. The adaptations do seem pretty good, although some have wondered about their training plans. They also have added machine learning models for doing exercises and have a 1-10 progression for the various attributes as well as a huge number of different integrations including being able to import rides from Garmin when you are outside and other sources. They’ve added training stress as well and even estimate your Intensity Factor, TSS based on heart rate. They’ve added training stress, what they call intensity, I’m sure there is a trademark issue here, but you can see your progress. right now I use all three in tandem which is a bit much I dropped it since I realized that I could be pretty dedicated following the Trainer Road plans.īut now, everyone has been adding features that overlap, so the big changes in the last three years has been huge and folks like Steely are wondering the same thing. I don’t actually use it, but it’s the social application for virtual training that let’s you ride with others.
#Sufferfest app vs trainerroad free
This is actually a free cloud service, but it takes data from Garmin bike computers (and tries to be a social network and an analysis place, but they are pretty rudimentary), but it is the export point for outdoor rides, so useful. Lots of graphs and charts like Training Stress Scores, TSS, as well as heart rate and power analysis and for communicating with e-coaches ($120/year) with extra fees for workouts The social application for sharing your rides ($60/year)
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