Custom Workouts in Club Events

[Paul_Raknes (Worsie Vetkoek)]

I really see a strong need for the option of a custom workout in a club event for all members of the club - even if for now we could just add the workout toTrainingPeaks and then select it after joining the event in Workouts / TrainingPeaks Custom Workouts" - That is a clunky work around - ideally we could just build custom workouts in Zwift for our club members and do them in events. Any ideas if this will be an option in the future?

[Paul_Southworth (Paul)]

They haven’t shared anything about that. From a feature perspective clubs has been mostly dead for a while.

How to create a group workout with custom workout

Hi. I’ve created my club on zwift and i want to group workout with custom workout event. But in android device i’m not able to do that becouse i can select only sugested workout. Which is not satysfing me. Then I’ve check www and there is an option under events that i called “manage my events” but w…

Club-Group-Workout

Hi dear community. Im new in this forum. I have a question about the club workouts. I only have 11 workouts that i can coose. How can I create my one workout and ride it in the club with all together? I use the android companion app. Thank you an have a nice day!

[Paul_Raknes (Worsie Vetkoek)]

Thanks Paul - Yeah, I have been leading group rides using custom workouts on Zwift for several years, but it’s incredibly clunky - I have all 50 athletes add me as a coach or shared coach on TrainingPeaks - then I build custom workouts there and put it on everyone’s schedule - then I creat a meetup in Zwift for every workout - the athletes have to join the meetup, then go find the custom workout and then jump on discord and listen to me - additionally I have to manually add mot of the members to the members to the meetup each time as at best, only half of the invitees get carried over when you select the “Do it again” option - so it kinda works, but its super manual and time consuming to set up and administer and it’s complicated for users … seems like like such an obvious use-case for Zwift - let coaches run custom workouts in club events or make it easier in meetups

[Paul_Southworth (Paul)]

I am sure that feature would get used if they ever did it. It’s hard to have much hope given how the clubs feature has been left to rot but who knows… maybe some day

[Paul_Raknes (Worsie Vetkoek)]

Maybe TrainingPeaks Virtual will beat them to it - then we’ll jump there

[Theia_Friestedt (360 VELO)]

@Paul_Raknes

the athletes have to join the meetup, then go find the custom workout and then jump on discord and listen to me - additionally I have to manually add mot of the members to the members to the meetup each time as at best, only half of the invitees get carried over when you select the “Do it again” option - so it kinda works, but its super manual and time consuming to set up and administer and it’s complicated for users … seems like like such an obvious use-case for Zwift - let coaches run custom workouts in club events or make it easier in meetups

This is indeed an issue: adding people all over again in each meetup we create, or doing a Club event but people cannot bring a custom workout. I think this is to discourage coaches from using Zwift to coach their athletes live.

[Gi_Go (Gi)]

We are in the same boat, weekly training group and every time we have to go through the same cumbersome progress to invite everybody and join, select the workout and so on to do a workout together.

Custom workouts would be great but….. PLEASE lets start with being able to utilize the complete workout library for clubs, instead of a poor subset.

This should be so simple to realize, that it seems like a dilliberate choise by the Zwift staff to not implement this, in order to kill of this way of riding on Zwift alltogether. I rely don’t understand the reasoning behind this.

Pushing custom workout to all participents of a clubride is perhaps not so simple to implement, but giving acces to a complete workoutlibrary that already excists….that should not be that hard.

So a full Yess for custom workouts, but Please lets start with giving us acces to the complete set of workouts.

[Allison_DiMatteo (Allison)]

I completely agree with this. I know two clubs that would be thrilled with the opportunity to have all workouts in the Zwift workout library available to choose from instead of the current subset. Also, including training plan workouts so that the group can do a training plan together. One of the clubs I ride with is my gravel team IRL so being able to do one of the gravel training plans as a pre-season structure would be amazing. Being able to make custom workouts would be even more amazing, but totally agree with what you are saying here.