A Complete List of Cycling Workouts for Zwift Club Events

Over two years ago, Zwift launched the ability to hold group workouts via Club events organized using the Companion app. While the feature launched with a library of just 11 workouts, did you know Clubs currently have access to 59 workouts for events?

Here’s a complete list of workouts that can be used for Club events, including screenshots so you can get an idea of what each workout entails. (Keep in mind the power figures in the workout screenshots are based on a rider FTP of 250W. When you create a Club workout event, the intervals shown are based on the FTP stored in your profile. In the actual event, of course, the intervals will be customized to each rider’s FTP.)

Under 30 Minutes

Alphabetical List:

As shown in Companion app:

Under 60 Minutes

Alphabetical List:

As shown in Companion app:

Over 60 Minutes

Alphabetical List:

As shown in Companion app:

Ramp Tests

Creating a Group Workout Event for Your Club

Creating a workout event for your Club is easy and intuitive, much like creating a non-workout event. At a minimum it requires four easy steps:

1. Tap “Group Workout” on the initial Create Event screen
2. Tap the workout template you want to use
3. Fill in the event details (everything is pre-filled except for date/time, but you’ll probably want to customize the title and event description, among other things)
4. Tap “Publish Event”

In practice, creating an engaging and high-quality group workout event will require a bit more work:

1. Tap “Group Workout” on the initial Create Event screen
2. Tap the workout template you want to use
3. Fill in the event details (everything is pre-filled except for date/time, but you’ll probably want to customize the title and event description as well)
   • Tap “Change Route” to change which route the event uses. Each workout template is attached to a particular route by default.
   • Select a ride leader if desired
   • Tap “Change settings” at the bottom and turn off Late Join (see below for more on this). You may also want to make the event visible to anyone with the event link.
4. Tap “Publish Event”
5. Notify your Club members of the new event, by whatever means you’d like

Note: rubber-banding (“keep together mode”) is enabled for all Club Workout events at this time, and cannot be disabled.

Next Steps

The Clubs workout library has expanded nicely beyond its initial launch, but there are several ways workouts for Clubs could still be improved. Here are my ideas:

• Disable Late Join by Default: Late Join is currently enabled for Club Workouts by default. But late joining a workout is probably not an ideal experience, as it places you in the middle of the workout, wherever everyone else is at! (An especially terrible idea for a Ramp Test.) My recommendation: disable it by default, but let event organizers enable it for those odd workouts where it may make sense.
• Toggle keep-together mode: keep together mode is enabled for all Club Workouts by default, and cannot be disabled. It’s possible, though, that Club owners may want to host workouts where riders aren’t rubber-banded together. Give them that option.
• More workouts: give Club owners more options for workouts to host from the on-demand library. Of course, if Zwift is going to make its full workout library available then a search/filtering interface will need to be developed to help Club owners comb through the hundreds of available workouts.
• Custom workouts: this will be a common request, especially from Clubs centered around a coach who puts together team workouts. But implementing this feature will be a more involved project than just adding additional on-demand workouts, due to the way Zwift stores custom workouts on a per-individual basis.
• Group metrics: this idea is more of a stretch than the others, but how cool would it be if we could see metrics (real-time or after the event) showing how many group riders finished each interval, who had the highest wattage or w/kg, how many riders started vs finished, which interval riders failed the most, how many riders adjusted their FTP bias mid-event, total group calories burned, etc. (This would be interesting for all group workouts, not just Club events.)

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