Target weight day

Feature Requests
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Quite some of the people around here want to use cycling as a means of regulating their weight. Struggling with heavy overweight climbing will never be my favourite.

Still I feel that riding in a virtual environment could help me with motivation for weight loss, by seeing my weight to my “target weight” and experience how much easier the Alpe would be with 20kg less.
I read in several boards that people just put in fake numbers, someone’s just to equalize efforts when they are on s social ride with buddies - but since I’m on the very heavy side this would feel like cheating to me, all day, every day.

Therefore is love to have an option to set my weight to my target weight (or whatever I’d like to ride for this ride) but with zwift knowing about it and therefore testing that ride different. Show me the rise while I’m riding like I’d have my target weight but save the ride like a stationary ride without any times for springs, routes and koms recorded. Just award the distance and sweats that I’d have produced with my real weight (if any)… I only need the live picture as an incentive, since zwift made me go up the Alpe, but always in a speed that was too slow to be done in reality…
Let me see that I could do it if I’d lose weight…

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Since the distance you’d covered would also be “false”, why not just set your weight to what you want and delete the ride rather than saving it?

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Knock yourself setting your weight to whatever you want, but expect your minimum categories for racing to be based on the weights you declare and the power you put out.

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Because i still want to know what I’ve been putting out in terms of calories and wattage for workout tracking etc…

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Still feels like cheating. I’m not having problems putting out 800 Watts die to my sheer weight and muscle v coming with it. My daughter can’t go over 150 - yet in terms of climbing she’s bis, die to weighing about 35 kg… I’m just not supposed to be in any other cat than D (as long es there is no H) for what may fitness level is…

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But your calorie calculation will be wrong if you enter the wrong weight.

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If he’s just changing his simulated weight then calories would be the same, because he’s still putting out the same wattage over time. The thing that changes is speed in the simulated world, especially uphill.

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I would say keep your real weight, and celebrate the weight loss by seeing the improved climbing speed.

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I hate to say it but this is probably the correct answer. And I’ll try to remember it the next time up the Alpe. Or, more importantly, when I’m considering that additional, and very delicious, next cookie! :slight_smile:

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I know you are right… kinda… I just had such a bad time health wise that right now things like the alpe would take (probably) 2.5 hours - If I’d be able to do it at all… really demotivating…

But even more of a problem: most of the zwift courses I used to do included at least one really steep part… If I have to cross out all of these routes I’d be very very restricted…

I got no Idea how many people out their change their weight to something incorrect - I’ve never done it myself… but I believe there’s quite some people changing it and I’d prefer for them (and myself) to have a way to do so without cheating…

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I have started Zwift weighing more than you. So I know how hard it can be.

I would suggest just enjoying riding even if it is slow and avoid the long climbs.

You have two things that are going for you. As you lose weight you will get faster and as you ride more you will get stronger and also go faster.

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Instead of viewing the Alpe as a climb that needs to be completed all in one go, why not set a timeframe (for example, one hour) and see how far you can get up the mountain, in that time? Keep on doing these one hour climbs up the Alpe, until you feel comfortable adding on more time - maybe 15 minute increments, or even 30 if you’re feeling good on a particular day!

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Good point, I would start with a smaller climb like the Epic KOM.

This was and still is one of my favorite routes. (Easy to skip the bonus climb)

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Firstly: hard to believe you had more than 130kgs… Congratulations on your weight loss…

Then again: I did epic KOM (incl bonus climb), Zwift KOM, Alpe and Ven Top in winter 2021/2022… Before I had massive health issues and gained 15kgs just in the second half of 2022… I’m slowly trying to get back on the bike (hopefully I can start next week) and I’m looking up for a long and annoying recovery…
Several of my friends invited me to social rides up the Alpe or similar… And I know I just can’t do this with them… Usual recommendation “just set your weight to 75kg and you’ll be fine”… Yeah I’d like to join them, keep my training data and not pollute my feed with absolutely surreal PBs…

I actually thought more people had those “problems”…

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I tipped the scale at 123kg. :flushed:

If you have friends that want to ride together then create a meetup with keep together, I do this when riding with my daughter (12), it is a lot of fun I can go all out and we will stay together and both get exercise.

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