PerfPRO looks like Golden Cheetah’s training tool.
Quite awesome for being free.
Adjusting your weight in events has been fixed but not during free rides. You are correct, there was huge controversy over the lack of action from Zwift over the person who exposed the way to cheat. The person was absolutely singled out and made to look like the bad guy, then Zwift slowly started to close the holes in the game that were brought out.
It took a year, but the changing of weight in an event was fixed.
Advocating for better rules, Zwift enforcement of those rules.
I have looked for the rule book on the Zwift site. I can find a rule book from August 2024, which is for Zwift World Series but the premise of rules are clearly laid out. I only know that the version available on the site is out of date because Chris Schwenker provided me a copy of the updated version…which seemingly is only available to elite riders.
The community has guidelines laid out like a children’s book. Vague as hell and doesn’t actually say do this, not that anywhere. They do make a joke about weight doping but that is about it.
Getting clear rules and official Zwift enforcement of them is the real root of the problem.
I know for sure that two other platforms have measures in the game to prevent some of the issues that have been discussed here.
Well, the positive side is that you can see who someone is by how they act when there are fewer rules. If someone is going to take shortcuts when they can and push every limit, you will be suspicious of how they act when they do have to follow rules.
Suppose someone rocks up and wants to race legitimately for real money. No serious team will touch them if their profile is all sorts of height and weight changes, huge swings in power, odd patterns of training/distance, or dubious ways to progress in-game.
Outside of that. If people don’t care what people think, they can do whatever they want in-game.
It’s an old school training tool. I have a license for it so I could run a cycling training studio if I wanted.
Its drawback is that everyone must do the one session. Otherwise you have two machines running and two banks of trainers and that gives you a bit of flexibility. Not bad, but not the greatest either. The other drawback is its developer (who is excellent) seems to be allergic to macOS! maybe I need to gift him a Mac.
Those are the 3 main areas that people focus on with zwift im going to guess
Gaming platform - of course it is, the powerups, the different frames etc its like any game where upgrades can make a significant difference to performance/enjoyment of the game - some people only see it as a game and will do anything they can to “win” or maybe be on top would be a better phrase
Training Platform - they want it to be but its nowhere near a training platform
Racing Platform - they wanted it to be the e-racing platform but never could make it work outside of the elite racing and even with elite racing there were some issues, community racing aka the majority of racers have to deal with all cheating shenanigans etc but you only have to look back at cam jeffers being banned for using an ant+ simulator to get the tron bike because it was, at the time, the best bike to use, now you have people using them all the time to gain bike upgrades and zwift likely dont give a monkeys about it because they lost the uci deal to mywhoosh so effectively don’t have to protect their platform from “cheating”
First botters cant be far of the lightning socks now and gaining 12s with them on the rest of us.
I have one in my follower list who does rides of 12 to 16 hours a day at either 3.8 or 5.3 w/kg.
People who expose security risks in operating systems or other mainstream software can call themselves white hat hackers for one reason: it’s likely those companies will do something to close those security holes and fix the problem.
When it’s unlikely that a company will do that, posting a video about the hack under the auspices of ‘trying to demonstrate the flaw’ is only going to lead to more people taking advantage of it. Which makes me assume the video is posted just for clicks, not to help keep the system secure.
I consider it part of a training platform, since I can use workouts, Z1/Z2 rides (robopacer or solo), as well as tempo (faster robopacers) or all out effort under simulated race conditions. But, as a training platform it is severly limited by the fact that it only really considers cycling to be training Yes, it supports running, barely and only indoors, but no other cross-training activities.
I have been a long haul truck driver for 31yrs. So I have had a very Sedimentary lifestyle.
I discovered Zwift in Sept of 2020. I instantly loved it. I always looked forward to getting home so I could Zwift. I used to just ride around, doing new routes. Then I was invited to a meetup. No clue who Crazyflame was, but I thought. Lets give it a try. It was a great. Lovely group of people, they told me that they would MeetUp every Sunday. Count me in.
If I was home, I would always join. They were so strong. Pushed me to my limit.
I started walking during the week, which helped me make gains. Started doing some workouts and racing abit. More gains. Now I have started running some, just to aid my fitness. More gains.
Long story short. I’m in the best shape of my life. And I’m the oldest that I have ever been. So yes…
I would consider Zwift as a training platform.
Zwift is definitely a platform that one can train on. Is it a “serious training platform?” I’d say probably not but that’s a gray area with countless definitions from different people. It certainly could be. The new UI on Companion App shows that ZHQ wants Zwift to be considered a Serious Training Platform, though the UI/UX side of it has a long way to go.
maybe I need to gift him a Mac. 