Release your fitness potential with Zwift

In today's fast-paced world, maintaining fitness is more challenging than ever. Zwift is an innovative, immersive platform that makes boosting your performance achievable, fun, and rewarding. The indoor cycling app allows you to experience structured training plans, real-time fitness tracking, and exciting group workouts in an immersive virtual reality world. Zwift connects to your smart trainer of choice, with terrain changes mimicked via an increase or decrease in resistance, resulting in an engaging ride experience, with a plethora of worlds and maps available to explore. Add user-friendly hardware, and Zwift has all the tools you need to meet your fitness goals.

Training Plans: Roadmaps to Success

Effective training is based upon consistency, and one of the best things about indoor training is that consistency is built in, there are no bad weather days in Zwift. As most of us are time-crunched, we need to know that the time we dedicate to our indoor cycling will reap results and help us reach the goals that matter. To make this happen, we need a plan. From beginners to seasoned athletes, Zwift provides training plans tailored to help cyclists of every level achieve success. These plans are designed by world-class coaches and are adjustable based on your available free time, race schedule and fitness level. Whether preparing for a major event or just trying to increase your endurance and personal performance, Zwift's training plans are structured to provide incremental challenges that push your limits safely and effectively every time you ride. Committing to a plan means that you never have to question what session you are doing or why; trust in the plan, and the results will follow.

Time Efficient Training: All the Tools you Need

Log on to Zwift, and you'll be presented with a 'workouts' library comprehensive enough to keep you busy indoors all year. The app houses thousands of interval sessions that cater for all manner of training needs and desired durations. You may wish to pick and choose as you go - filtering workouts by length or difficulty - or, you can sign up to a tailored training plan. Again, Zwift offers plans for those looking to get fit for the first time, as well as racers aiming high; Zwift is unique in offering a prenatal plan for expectant mums as well as a plan designed for those looking to return to fitness postnatally or after an injury or other layoff.

All sessions will provide power targets, based upon your functional threshold power (FTP), which is how hard you can pedal for one hour. The platform offers several methods of testing this, from the traditional '20 minute all-out effort', to the ramp test (available in two versions), or, measuring FTP using a climb called The Grade. Plus, if you find yourself setting a new FTP during a workout, group ride or session, Zwift will automatically adjust your fitness zones.

Finally, if you use other training apps (such as TriDot, Xert, Join.cc or FasCat), workouts can be sent straight to Zwift via a new training API.

Group Workouts: The Power of Community

Riding with others helps to push your fitness to the next level and brings the support of the cycling community right into your home. Zwift's ability to bring people from around the globe together for group workouts and rides leverages the power of community motivation and makes every ride fun. Zwift hosts hundreds of workouts daily, ranging from social rides to competitive group races, so you can test your fitness and hone your skills while you train. Training with others and sharing the challenges increases the feel-good endorphins that exercise releases and decreases your perceived exertion levels so you can push yourself even further.

Hardware: Elevating Your Experience

Zwift is compatible with almost all smart trainers. However, for those seeking the very best, the app offers advanced hardware solutions such as the Zwift Ride Smart Frame, which can transform your smart trainer into an always-ready, all-in-one smart bike, redolent in Zwift colours. Partner the Zwift Ride Frame with a Wahoo Kickr Core to get slick, virtually silent shifting and all the benefits of Zwift at your fingertips.

Instead of swapping your outdoor bike onto the turbo, you can leave your Zwift frame permanently in position and ready to ride so you can maximise every training opportunity with no set-up faff needed.

With built-in handlebar controllers and customizable virtual shifting, the Zwift Frame provides an authentic ride experience by replicating realistic outdoor cycling experiences, such as mimicking terrain changes and slipstreaming. Another advantage is that the Zwift Ride Smart Frame is easily adjustable, so everyone at home can experience Zwift indoor cycling with only one bike set-up.