I like how workouts are designed to provide additional text throughout like “in this next segment try to maintain a cadence of 90-100” but then many of them go on to include additional information like “if you aren’t using a cadence sensor, try to maintain 1.5 revolutions per second” or something like that. The system should be smart enough to know that I am currently using a cadence sensor because it is displaying my cadence. Therefore it should not display that additional information. If the messages designed within workouts were smart enough to be variably displayed based upon certain available data (like what sensors are in use, what your history is, etc) they could potentially be far more effective during workouts.
Right now the instructions aren’t even smart enough to know if you’re doing a one-off workout suggested by zwift on the homescreen, or are doing the workout as part of a plan either. There are so many inconsistencies and errors in the text it’s a bit embarrassing.
Today the way it works is the text is fully static, and baked along with the workout, so there’s really no variability at all. So implementing what you’re describing would be good, but it would be a fundamental change to how the text works today and they would need to go through all their current workouts to change the prompts in some way.
Yeah, the increase/reduce power prompts need to go away when using ERG mode too.
I wonder how many new to ERG workouts people get hung out by the ERG spiral of death because of these.
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I am constantly telling confused beginners to ignore the more-power / less-power messages when they are new to ERG mode. Their usual complaint is “it says more power so I tried to do more power and I spin faster and faster but I can’t reach the power target”