Two years ago, I found myself sitting on a couch in Eric Min’s living room, talking about where we’d love to see Zwift go next. The single biggest idea I shared was simply this: I want Zwift to give me a brilliant recommendation for each day’s workout.
- As a Zwift fanboy, I know the platform has so much to offer. Routes to explore, community events, engaging races, workouts and training plans… there’s something there to motivate just about anyone, but it’s also easy to get lost!
- As a cyclist, I know it’s easy to get confused about what I should do to get stronger. With training advice coming from all sides, sometimes I end up heading down rabbit trails, chasing the next shiny thing I saw on YouTube, instead of sticking to a consistent plan.
I knew a simple, brilliant recommendation engine could help to solve both of these challenges. But also, it was no easy ask! (Especially back then, when Zwift wasn’t even “seeing” my outdoor rides.) Now, two years later, Zwift can see what we do outside, which is brilliant. But that doesn’t mean the holy grail of workout recommendation engines is easy to build. (Case in point: Strava’s new “Instant Workouts” feature, which hasn’t impressed anyone I know of.)
Zwift is completing a major rollout of their Next Up personalized recommendation engine this week. And while Next Up is still very much a beta in Zwift, and some of the feature requests I make below are already being worked on internally, I’m sharing this post now in hopes of sparking useful conversation and actionable feedback for Zwift’s team. This will, in turn, help to drive the development of what I believe is an important feature. So let’s dive in!
First, a Quick Explainer
If the Next Up feature is enabled for your account, you’ll see it at the top of your homescreen. It’s pretty hard to miss:
If you’re signed up for an event that’s coming soon, it will show that event as your first option. Otherwise, it shows the selected workout as your next option:
Click “Start Ride” to begin the recommended activity, or “Tune” to see and/or modify the recommendations. Next Up currently serves up four types of recommendations:
- Planned: events you’ve signed up for, or today’s scheduled workout if you’re syncing from a third-party training plan provider like TrainerRoad. (You won’t see the “Planned” option if you aren’t signed up for events or syncing from a third-party provider.)
- Workout: a structured workout from Zwift’s library
- Route: a route from Zwift’s library
- RoboPacer: a RoboPacer moving at a pace that works for your current fitness and freshness
Once you’re on the “Tune” screen, you can click the “Shorter” or “Longer” buttons to select a shorter or longer Workout, Route, or RoboPacer ride. You’re given two shorter options and two longer options, plus the default option, for a total of 5 possible Workouts, 5 Routes, and 5 RoboPacer lengths.
If you “tune” your RoboPacer ride, it just adds or subtracts 30 minutes from the stated duration. There is a timer in the game’s center HUD that pops up intermittently to show how much time you’ve got left to hit your goal:
Two more things to call out:
- Next Up has a limited presence in the Companion app as well (more on that below)
- Next Up refreshes its activity recommendation once per day at this time (more on this below as well)
Rollout Plan and Target Audience
As I explained in this week’s post on Zwift’s version 1.106 release, Zwift released Next Up to all English-speaking Zwifters this week. The plan is to roll it out for all other supported languages by the end of February.
In terms of target audience, while the current iteration of Next Up can provide value to every Zwifter, it should prove especially useful to newer Zwifters and less experienced cyclists. More experienced Zwifters don’t necessarily need guidance on the next route to ride or which RoboPacer group to join, and many experienced cyclists already have some sort of training plan they’re following.
While Next Up could someday provide great value for all Zwifters (I discuss this more below), in its current form, it’s most helpful to newer riders. I would say this sort of Next Up’s “unofficial target audience.”
Feature Requests
Option to Turn It Off
Update April 13, 2026: Zwift has added a generic support link to their Next Up support page saying, “If you’d like to disable the Next Up feature, please select this link to contact our Community Support team.”
I’m seeing more and more riders asking if the Next Up feature can just be toggled on and off, as they don’t have a use for it. While Zwift has never been big on letting people toggle key features, I think there’s some sense in this idea. Turning it off would save AI processing and free up screen space for the features people do want.
The Next Up feature, as it currently stands, isn’t super-useful to everyone. Until Zwift can build it out so it’s really good at knowing what you should do next, it makes good sense for Zwift to add a setting to turn it off.
Refreshing After Each Activity
Currently, the recommendations in Next Up for Workout, Route, and RoboPacer only refresh once a day. This is done to save AI cycles, no doubt, but it makes the feature feel rather “dumb” if you’re a rider who often does multiple activities in one Zwift session, or you’re a rider who does two distinct Zwift sessions in a day.
I would love to see the recommendation refresh after I save my Zwift activity. That means, for example, on Tuesdays I might log in for my ZRL race. It would recommend a race warmup for me (see that feature request below), then recommend the ZRL event to me, then recommend a cooldown.
To save on AI cycles, perhaps they could just add a refresh button to the UI, so I could easily get a new recommendation if I want it?
Remember My Week
Currently, Next Up seems to recommend 1-hour activities every day. Yes, you can click to tune them longer or shorter, but it feels like the engine is a bit blind to my weekly habits.
For example, I’ve led my 100km Pizza Burner ride every Thursday morning for a year, yet it still recommends a 1-hour ride for me on Thursdays. And Saturdays are always a long day for me (2.5-4 hours, typically), but it’s still just recommending 1-hour rides. (And even if I try to tune them, the longest options are sometimes only 2 hours).
Next Up needs some logic to spot day-of-the-week patterns.
Event Recommendations
Zwift has always struggled to surface (or let people discover) events that will leave Zwifters coming back for more. Think about it: there’s still no tool in Zwift that says, “Show me the most popular events happening in the next hour” or “I want to do VO2 work in a group, what events are coming up?”
This is an untapped area with huge potential wins for Zwift.
Imagine if it could find the best event for you that was coming up soon? And you could tune the selection a bit, to choose between a handful of event options?
Currently, the “Planned” section of Next Up will show the next event you’re signed up for, assuming it’s coming up soon. But that’s just the most basic functionality Next Up should have. There’s much more Zwift can do…
Warmup Recommendations
If Zwift knows I’m signed up for a race that starts in 15-60 minutes, it should be recommending race warmups for me. There are several race warmup workouts in Zwift’s library, and there are also routes and RoboPacers I could ride that would do the job.
Route Recommendations
Zwift’s huge library of routes (well over 200 free rideable routes now) can be a bit overwhelming, especially to newer users. Add route badges into the mix, Route of the Week, and the huge variation in length and difficulty of routes, and you can see that a strong route recommendation engine would be a great addition to the game.
To Zwift’s credit, they’ve improved this portion of Next Up since its initial launch. It’s now recommending Tour de Zwift routes for me, for example – even though the explanation text doesn’t explain this (that’s coming soon).
Personally, I’d love it if the feature just brought up routes I haven’t ridden yet, and explained that if I ride the route, I’ll get the achievement badge and XP.
Improved Explanation Text
Speaking of the explanation text (we need a better name for this text that explains why a particular activity is being recommended) – there’s a lot of improvement that could happen here.
First: as a text guy, it’s mildly infuriating that I can’t read the full text from the screen in game. It ends with …, but there’s no way to click and read more. Zwift needs to fix this, as that explanatory text is going to play a key role in convincing Zwifters of the value of Next Up selections far into the future.
(To be fair, that text is fully readable in the Companion app).
Fixing the way the text is displayed is the easy part. Improving the actual text, I imagine, is much more challenging. You’ve got to keep it short, but also informative. Right now, the text feels overly simplified to me. I know there are unmentioned factors (like weekly goal settings) driving Next Up to recommend a particular activity, and I wish it would mention them.
Companion App Buildout
Currently, the Companion app only shows you the default Next Up activity. That means it shows you your “Planned” activity (an event you’ve signed up for, or a third-party workout), or if you have nothing planned, it will show you the selected workout of the day.
There’s no way to tune the workout in Companion. And no way to see selected routes or RoboPacers.
For Next Up to be useful, it definitely needs a strong presence in Companion, since this is where people go to plan their next activity. But right now, its presence in Companion feels a bit half-baked.
Zwift Training Plan Integration
It’s a bit odd, but if you’re signed up for a Zwift Training Plan, nothing about that plan shows up in Next Up. Ever.
Workouts from third-party providers like XERT will show up, but Zwift’s own Training Plan workouts do not.
My guess is this hasn’t been fixed yet because Training Plans have their own UI in game – a popup window where you select your workout for the day. That would need to be modified/removed, and Next Up may need to be modified somewhat to replace that functionality.
One possible solution: surface the day’s planned workout in Next Up, just like you’d do if I were using TrainerRoad for my plan. Swap the “Longer” and “Shorter” buttons for “next” and “previous”, so I can choose to execute a workout that’s scheduled for tomorrow, if that’s what I want.
Smart Activity Type Selection
Next Up currently defaults to showing me the recommended Workout for the day, and I have to click “Tune” to choose a non-workout activity.
Here’s the problem: I rarely do workouts! The vast majority of my activities are events, RoboPacer rides, or solo efforts on particular routes.
The feature should be better at choosing which activity type to display based on my habits and goals.
Don’t Forget the Runners
Zwift is nearly ready to enable the addition of our running activities to Fitness Metrics (it’s coming very soon!), so my guess is they plan for Next Up to expand into running recommendations in the future as well.
Final Thoughts
I’m sure there are other great things Zwift could do with Next Up that I didn’t cover above, and conversely, some of what I recommended above won’t prove useful to everyone. But the big thing I’m hoping Zwift and the Zwift Community both understand is that the Next Up concept has huge potential. Like I told Eric Min over 2 years ago, Zwift has the historic data needed to make smart activity recommendations. That engine in turn will:
- Increase engagement among existing users as it helps them discover and participate in the types of activities that suit them best
- Grow the subscriber base, because people are looking for fitness tools that provide simple, accurate, and affordable guidance
- Help people build fitness, as it provides basic coaching guidance
In talking to contacts within Zwift, it’s clear the company knows that Next Up is an important feature, and is planning to continually invest in improvements.
I’ll wrap up with this: many Zwifters are asking if they can just turn off the Next Up feature. While I think a toggle is a good idea, I also know Zwift can make Next Up compelling enough that everyone will want to keep it turned on. Here’s hoping!
Share Your Thoughts
What do you think of the Next Up feature? Share your thoughts below! I would also recommend sharing your thoughts on this topic in Zwift’s forum.
I’m very surprised they rolled this out in the current form, I’ve been in their test pool for weeks on this feature and it is not even close to being ready. As you mention many of the short comings above, a major one is wether or not Zwift even knows what I’m working towards, what my goals are, what if any events IRL I might be training for… without any direction from the user what exactly are these recommendations even training me for? And not everyone is looking for a coach or has goals other than to log into Zwift and spin around having some fun chatting with folks. There should be options to tailor this toward a specific goal, or just turn it off. Another issue is that it doesn’t look froward far enough, as you mention only 60 minutes. What if I have multiple events I’ve signed up for in the coming days, some races, maybe a zone 2 ride, and a meetup? Why doesn’t the system know these things and then either suggest something to accompany them or simply just show me what I have coming up the next day? I’ve had many occasions where I’ve finished a ZRL race on Tuesday morning, have a route recon the next morning scheduled, and then a TTT on Thursday… but this system still tells me to do a workout with tons of intensity. It is completely useless for me, and I’ve been sharing that feedback, unfortuanetly I don’t think anyone is listening (and I’m not the only one in the first beta group to share these observations). Yet it was rolled out to everyone without any improvements.
I agree. It’s lousy and I would gladly turn it off.
Sorry Zwift. Swing and a miss, as they say.
There IS a timer in-game when choosing a Robopacer that tells you how much you have left to ride to attain your preset goal.
Oh really? *heads off to Zwift to check it out…*
Hehe
Didn’t see it at first… then it popped up, in the center HUD! Looks like it pops up at intervals, but isn’t always visible. I modified the post above!
I did a robopacer ride yesterday and it seemed to pop up every minute with a tone like I’d gotten a ride on, passed a milestone towards my bike upgrade or a zwifter I follow has come on line. It was kind of annoying.
Non-inclusion of their own training programs is a big miss for me.
Could be more a sign of where their current training plans are? Haven’t heard much positive
I’ve completed a couple of them and have had good results. I started from literally nothing and after the Return to Fitness and the Gran Fondo plan, not much I don’t feel I can do in the game.
The only thing I want is the ability to turn it off. It’s not useful to me at all. Zwift is not my coach, zwift will never be my coach.
There are so many other things that zwift could focus on, mainly just fixing or finishing existing aspects of the game.
The physics model that breaks down at people get further from the average height and weight.
ZRS which has never worked in the way their own FAQ says it should and is outperformed by vELO.
The lack of event organiser tools which mean that event customisation is handled through emails.
The broken detection of unreasonable performance, turn it into an education piece about what level of athlete can actually produce that performance and what can be done to get a more realistic measurement.
Even just getting more reliable bug fixes so our socks don’t disappear every few months.
Not everything needs AI. Particularly when it feels very A and not at all I.
Some of us may just be exhausted from experiencing Al getting applied to everything and watching it frequently making things worse (cough, cough, Windows 11 and especially Copilot”)
I think AI can work very well for certain focused situations. But it’s frequently not easy to make it work well.
Very well said! To me the physics of the game and racing score are- and have been- at the top of the list of things that matter, and for a long time.
I like the idea, especially if they can get some of the issues with the choices being more tuned for who you are as a rider. But seems like there are other simple UI fixes that they could do to make the interface more useable (with or without AI). For example, why isn’t there a filter on the workouts or routes pages where I can start typing the name of a route or workout? The libraries are so large that it is annoying to find that one workout I want to do sometimes even though I know the name. It’s not a big deal but it would definitely make it easier to use. Also, when an event has late join why isn’t it still possible to see that on the event screen? Like if I miss the start by one minute there is no way in.
At the risk of topic drift… I see events to late join on the events list.
My first recommendation says “Welcome to the first bike workout in your Zwift Academy Tri journey!” I have just reached level 28 done a handful of races, participating in the Tour de Zwift.
I doubt this is for me – I’m 74 and cannot swim or run. 😃
Kind regards,
Paddy
Yeah, that’s Zwift accessing their whole library of workouts and finding one they think will work for you. The confusing things is that the workout’s description text is ZA Tri specific, which doesn’t apply to… anyone… at this point. 😀
Was running stress recently enabled, briefly? My training score doubled from in the 30s to in the 70s for a couple days and I wasn’t cycling more. Now it’s back down to normal levels…
Yup. They’re working to import past running activities from Garmin/Wahoo/Hammerhead, and will be adding running to Fitness Metrics very soon.
It should really be opt-in at this stage while it’s in beta. From a user perspective, it shouldn’t be the first thing I see if it’s not a finished product.
It needs to learn about us before it makes recommendations. Seems like a simple thought, but somehow Zwift missed that part of AI interaction.
No one opens ChatGPT and expects it to read your mind and recommend what you were about to ask it. AIs use prompts from the user before responding. Why don’t they ask the user what type of zwifter they are (badge hunter, XP hawk, frame upgrader, zone 2/drops lover, workout/training specialist, etc).
A simple example, if I’m a badge hunter, recommend a route with a badge I haven’t earned, it’s not rocket science once they try to know me! If I wanted all the badges and it recommended the next badge for me (assuming it knew a bit more about my fitness level and time constraints), it could make some easy recommendations of what I should do next and since it’s the top of the first screen, I’d probably follow its rec. But just guessing without any understanding of who I am is artificial mind-reading, not “intelligence”, and I don’t think computers can read minds…yet
Agree that it needs to learn about us first – which it’s definitely doing alread, to some extent. I don’t think we should need to answer any questions for it to learn… it should be able to look at our activity history and figure out who we are. It’s not fully there yet, but that capability exists.
It “can” learn about us, but if we tell it what we want, it will become faster at recommending what we want. If I switch from XP to Drops, how many activities will it take to figure that out (assuming it starts doing that), versus us just saying “I want drops now”.
So yes, it should learn about us, but being in beta, it cant hurt to have us tell it. Otherwise engagement will fail before the AI is ever really up and running…
But how is it supposed to know, if we were just ill for like 2 weeks and are not fresh and ready for hard wo? That wouldnt work without asking.
Zwift continues to “roll out” features that are “half-baked” at best. This is another example. Why do they want to try to be TrainingPeaks? They cannot even integrate their own running side of the platform into the training score, much less the new feature suggested workouts. I have had it on my screen, taking up valuable real estate, for a week or so and all I want it to do is go away. Zwift isn’t now, nor ever will be, the place I go to for workout suggestions. They are not any good at it. Truly, they should “stay in their lane” I also remain concerned that Zwift will raise prices based on non useful, intrusive and generally not well thought out additions. I would really love to have the option to turn off any/all features I don’t need.
I know training plans and stuff is important to a lot of riders.
For me it’s not. For me Zwift is a game that keeps me fit.
All I really want is Velodrome racing. Sprint races, TTs, Pursuits, Points races, Elimination races, Kirins, etc…. Omniums, , six day races
Short hard fun races, hard, fast races. Races that you can do several in a day.
Have not seen one appropriate activity yet, and it take up too much space on Companion App meaning constant scrolling to see what I want.
Please give us the option to turn this off completely.
Seems like they are prioritizing training/workouts a bit more than they have in the past. Do you think they will ever update the workout player? With all these new connections like Trainer Road and these workout recommendations it would be great to be able to customize the HUD with data we want to see and also remove things we don’t need to see while in workout mode.
A pause and rewind button at the minimum but instead we get a fast forward button which I never want to press but occasionally press accidentally when I am deep in the red but still want to give someone a ride on!
My suggestion is that they need to add a second “axis” to the Tune feature. Right now you just have the option to decrease or increase the length of the activity (L/R). We need a second “axis” that modifies the difficulty of the activity (U/D). So if you get a workout with lots of sprints or z4/FTP work and your tired, you can tune it down to give you more Z2/3 segments or vice versa. For routes, it would change how much climbing the route has while keeping the same basic length.
Another option is for it to recognize which routes you haven’t done and prioritize those routes when giving you a suggestion to help gain XP.
Phase 2 definitely needs to incorporate user end goals into the equation. As people have correctly pointed out, how do you give suggestions / directions if you don’t know the end goal? All it can currently do is give you recommendations based on the path it thinks your taking or just “more of the same thing”; which isn’t terribly useful to most people.
An option to turn this off would be very welcome. I have no use for this.
I think one thing that needs work is the weekly number of hours goal. Mine is set at 20 with auto adjust turned on. Even in my big weeks of climbing when I did 25-35 hrs in a week, the weekly goal was stuck at 20, so it was not auto adjusting at all.
I mentioned this in the official Zwift forums –
AI does not know me.
I will not take training advice from AI.
This needs to be an option to turn off.
If nothing else, to “save AI cycles”.
“Everyone” is a very tall order. Since all current AI models are stochastic by nature they will do reasonably well on the middle of a distribution and suck rather badly for anyone who is in one of the tails on pretty much any axis.
My biggest gripe about this feature that I do not need is not that it exists (I’m sure some people will benefit) but that it takes over even more screen real estate in the Companion app. It assumes that I care about performance and training, and assumes that I want performance and training suggestions from Zwift, but neither is a safe assumption. It’s OK to simply enjoy riding without chasing gains, and it’s OK to get coaching from another source.
This is a randomizer, no AI. Zwift is a community game with fitness benefits. Why don‘t they keep building out that differentator?
I like how you suggest is it’s a community game. I agree, Zwift seem to want to be something else and I’m not sure the user base want that. They should as you suggest develop in game features that help them keep head of the competition.
There are tons of in game features that people request, some I like and some I don’t. I’d be happy if they developed any of these as it’s what the user base want.
Why can’t zwift give me a workout like xert/ training peaks ect.
I don’t want to pay for 2 things but I don’t mind if I have to pay more to zwift to get a good/great training plans.
Next Up is inherently useless with workouts because Zwift’s fitness/fatigue tracker is total crap. I have tracked form/fitness/fatigue on Intervals, Strava and TrainingPeaks for over 5+ years doing structured training and they’re all pretty agreeable. Companion app says I’m constantly fresh, no matter what, despite doing 10+ hour weeks and having recently PR’d nearly every time duration including 305w for >60 minutes. It also doesn’t factor in outside runs or other activities really. So why would I even consider a workout from it when I’m already fatigued and it thinks I’m fresh 24/7?
Agreed. I have been using data for myself and athletes I coach for 10+ years back to the WKO4 days, and the fitness tracker is so terrible, even new riders know they are not “fresh”. Intervals is the best out there IMO.
I’m signed up for the Tour de Zwift and, for the last four weeks, I’ve done (almost) nothing but TdZ stages as group events.
When I log on at 10 to the hour, it should be bloody obvious I want to ride a TdZ stage on the hour.
And when the TdZ finishes, I’d love recommendations of the next event to join.
I just want to turn this feature off; please design a toggle switch for it. How does Zwift even make recommendations without knowing my specific needs? Why assume ‘Next Up’ is a one-size-fits-all feature? Having to scroll past this completely useless section every time I open the app is a terrible user experience.
While I can see tremendous potential for some of the audiences you mention, and purposes, there needs to be the option to turn this feature off, from my perspective.
I want to know what I can do when I have that question, not what the developer and AI think I SHOULD do. My preference is to design the interface to make searching or asking a question easy. I am personally put off by the experience that the system is herding me in directions I didn’t ask for.
It’s wonderful that the platform has interest in exploring the potential for AI and other approaches to being helpful. But they should never stop providing paid subscribers with the capacity to decline use of those feature, and allow them to determine what would be helpful.
I appreciate recommendations. I do NOT appreciate the recommendations taking up almost half of my companion app Home Screen with no way to move them or shut them off.
I also don’t understand my recommendations. I’m half way or more through several different workout sets and other achievements yet my zwift recommendation comes from some other random set I’ve never seen nor started.
To further illustrate how unintelligent this feature is, today’s recommendation for me is the Alpecin Workout 1 – telling me I need a “steady ride” today. Thing is, I completed this workout YESTERDAY. It was the last ride I did before this recommendation popped up.
Recycled my post from initial feedback in Zwift forums: After scrolling through thousands of future requests and the 2026 Wishlist – nowhere did I see a request for a “Next Up” card in the ZCA that takes up 3/4 of the screen on my iPhone; nor did I see any requests for a “Next Up” card on the Zwift home screen bigger than the Tour de Zwift banner or that dwarfs the current ongoing Tune-up challenge.
It’s quite obvious that Zwift develops things they feel are important versus what the user base really wants. The day I let AI on a platform touted as a cycling “game” tell me what’s best for my body, is the day I lose all faith for humanity.
I have been experimenting w Zwift’s Recomendations. I like it. Gets me out of my rut and introduces me to new things, esp group rides I didn’t know about and wouldn’t have tried.
My suggestion is to be able to give it a human language description of your current goal (which can then be fed into the AI). Such as: maximize fitness, earn XP, meet new riders, explore new routes, etc. If it knew your goal it could help you reach it.
Cheers
Wait: how is it recommending group rides for you? I thought it currently only recommended events you’ve already signed up for?
I wonder if he means the robopacer rides, which are technically groups.
It’s not useful until it takes into account the other activities (not just cycling) people do. After a 5 hour 85km ice skate I’d expect it to understand I don’t need a long and intense workout on the trainer. But it knows only about bike rides, so it will only work for those who only cycle.
Echoing the thoughts of others: It might be useful for some who only cycle, but not for me – it takes up too much room, is too prominent and I just want the option to turn it off.
similar to Fitbit forcing Cardio Load down peoples throats, if it remains in it’s current form without the ability to turn off, it could be a subscription breaker
I just want to ride my bike when I want without feeling nagged by AI
Excellent suggestion. The top part says I’m overreaching, the Next Up says I’ve had a lighter period
As above, it’s both annoying and useless
Well, I’ve left it on to see the ‘suggestions’. But like the ‘Fresh’ status that comes up after every ride, it’s a good idea, and I know it’s beta, but, for me it’s ALWAYS wrong, not just the duration but the intensity. It’s always too high
Recommendations and advancement are always welcome but it’s so darn big.
Short answer: You can stick it up your AI…
Long answer: Long time ago, a visionary at Zwift (or so the investors whispered) decided it was destined to become the next Peloton. Hardware was the golden ticket, they thought—because why not? Spoiler: we all saw how that fairy tale ended.Fast forward, and now another genius at Zwift has declared the company will morph into the next TrainingPeaks. Déjà vu, anyone? Let’s just say we already know how this sequel plays out.
I would also like to turn this “feature” off. Zwift should be able to look at my past activities and see that I have done maybe 5 workouts in the last 2000 activities, 58,000 km, and 9 years. Yet it only recommends workouts. Maybe that shows that the AI programmers or whoever implemented the feature are clueless.
Respectfully, the workout is all you see in the preview. If you click on the banner, you will see that it also suggests a routes and a robopacers based on your past activities.
Last week we got 15 inches of snow, and since then I’ve been cross country skiing. According to Zwift, I’m detraining. Until Zwift can “see” everything I do, I really don’t want any recommendations about my “training”. I’d like to see a toggle to turn Next Up off.
I had the same issue. Sometime I want Zwift to pick me a sunny warm route. In the middle of summer at 100 degrees I want Zwift to give a ride in the only a cold snowy route!
“The Next Up feature, as it currently stands, isn’t super-useful to everyone.” You have a typo here, it isn’t useful to anyone. The recommendations are random garbage, when I’m signed up for a race it doesn’t take that into account, and, as is typical Zwift, the UI/UX impacts are very poor. It takes scrolling through two screens of junk now to see the event I’m signed up for next in Companion. This has the potential to be a really nice feature but it’s currently awful and I have no confidence it’ll ever be useful.
Zwift still cant see my rides on other platforms like MW. So the whole recommendation is useless. For example Sunday Race Club is essential and a big load of TSS, but Zwift always says fresh…so all the recommendation is invalid. The only feature I request (Text TLDR) is to turn recommendations off…
Like many others I do my own thing so would like to see a switch to toggle this off, or on.
I’m not a fan…at the moment. So for me I wish there was an on/off switch. Or a switch to choose the default option of workout, route or robopacer.
I am primarily a runner, I use Zwift and cycling to compliment my running so I don’t put to much stress into my already broken legs. So when they do role out the running side it will be useful to see what it reccommends cycling wise.
I hope that one day we could enter what races we are doing running/cycing and it can recommend options around building fitness for these.
Maybe off topic, but I am wondering how to start workout listed in “My list” in Companion app during acutal ride. And why I cannot get “Recommended workout” into the menu after pressing “E” during ride as well.
You can only see “My List” in game on the homescreen… and the recommended workouts as well. I think it would be nice if that was available while we were actively riding, but for now… that’s how it works.
I think this feature could be great with a little more work. I love the idea of a Zwift AI recommending workouts to me to help me meet my goals, like a custom training plan.
Of course, to do that Zwift needs to know what my goals are, and incorporate all non-Zwift activity (weight lifting, running, swimming, etc) into it’s AI. We need a way to tell Zwift that we want to be better crit racers, or we want to ride a grand fondo for the first time, or we have an extremely long outdoor ride coming up next month (that’s me), or we are just trying to unlock the tron bike.
For those of you complaining about the Next Up system not realizing you have an event coming up, that capability seems to have been added.
I signed up for a TDZ race this morning and when I logged into the game about 30 mins early, the race was shown as my Next Up.
Now, do I wish that the system was smart enough to ask if I wanted to do a warm up and give me suggested warm ups, absolutely. But it is apparently learning / improving as time goes along.
I like the idea of it but my main issue is that it uses your Status from Fitness Trends which isn’t always accurate, this alone has me treading a very fine line between fresh and overtraining.
The last thing I need is AI recommending workouts based on having a “FRESH” status when I feel rather ordinary or not sufficiently recovered, which has been the case the last few days. Wanting to give it a chance I went with the recommended workouts the past few days, my status today is “FRESH”, I’m definitely not feeling fresh and it would definitely be unproductive to attempt the suggested workouts.
It would be ideal if we could adjust our status in order for the AI to recommend more suitable workouts based on how we feel.
Zwift should stick to why most people subscribe to it, create a nice virtual environment to cycle in and make sure everything just works with no to minimal user intervention
In this case I’m very thankful for the “AI is destroying the environment!!!!!” crowd, because it will inevitably pressure Zwift into giving us the ability to turn this feature OFF!!
Echoing here the previous comments WRT being able to turn this feature off, it is completely useless for my Zwift experience, and also having another half baked AI based bell+whistle being foisted on us veteran Zwift users. As time goes on, the optics continue to show to me that despite Zwift’s tooting their horn that their large user base and community is oh-so-precious and unique to their smart trainer app platform, they are *NOT* listening to us when it comes to what features are being worked on, and other improvements that they absolutely need to work on and deploy (cough, “sortable items in the garage and saveable frame/wheel equipment configs, and why not a rider’s 3 or 4 favorite virtual clothing choices like jersey+socks+gloves+headwear+glasses, cough).
As time goes on I’m really beginning to lose my patience. I’m ready to trial other smart trainer app platforms like Rouvy and FulGaz.
So how DO you turn it off?
Of all the useless features no one gets excited about, the one that could be useful people hate. I’ll never understand cyclists, and I am one.
Turn it off to save AI computing power… LOL
we’re all paying subscribers. Keep it, get ride of it I don’t care, at least give us the option to turn it OFF.
Interestingly enough, when I learned I couldn’t toggle this feature off I just started doing them. 😂
I’ve never been a workout guy on Zwift for over 8 years. The number of choices always seemed daunting.
I’m actually just enjoying doing the suggested workout on days when my normal riding buddies aren’t there.
Winning!😂
You have pointed out the best value I’ve seen from the feature. Picking a workout is difficult and a time consuming effort search thru all the options. At least they have made a recommendation OR they are showing off some great options one would not easily or normally find the time to do so.