Today Zwift is flipping the switch to go live with their reorganized workout library, simplifying its organization and reducing the number of workouts by removing those that are similar to each other.
(Not seeing the reorganized library? Be patient – it is supposed to go live today, but we don’t know a precise time.)
The main workouts screen has received a welcome reorganization. It’s now a much shorter, goal-oriented list of collections:
There are only 14 collections listed, compared to 58 before the reorg. Clicking a collection brings up all the workouts it contains:
Download Legacy Workouts
Did a favorite workout of yours get removed in the reorg? You can download a ZIP file from Zwift containing all the legacy workouts (new, reorganized zip file updated Dec 14, 2023):
To use the workout, you’ll need to unzip the file and copy the workout to your custom workouts folder (learn more).
Our Workouts Wishlist
The collections re-org is a step in the right direction for sure. But what else could Zwift do to make the workouts library more useful? Here’s our shortlist:
- Favorites: let us mark workouts as favorites, and make those available under a particular collection or left-hand menu item. This list could even be auto-generated based on our workout history.
- Search by title: sometimes we know the name of a workout, but don’t know where to find it. A quick alphabetical search for full title search would be handy.
Questions or Comments
What do you think of Zwift’s workout reorg? What’s your top feature request when it comes to Zwift workouts? Share your thoughts below.
It would be great if they organized the garage also. You could have your favorite setups at the top. Then broken out by category, road, TT, gravel, climbing.
To be able to favourite workouts would be amazing. Can’t believe they’ve not done this. The reorg does look better mind you.
You can ‘favourite’ a workout by making a copy of it- it then appears in your ‘custom’ workouts. This also allows you to tweak them if you want.
How do you make a copy?
i guess from pc app not mobile. zwift is strange app in term of interface and UI/uX even in Elite app i can arrange customs workouts, copy ready ones.
Yes please please give us a “Favorites” tab
My experience is that Zwift does not pay attention to the wishes of its customers.
Next level – select said favorites – or Next – from the Companion App and have them ready for you when you sign into the game.
Optimal – be able to build a workout calendar in Companion App.
+1 on search by title. Can’t believe they still don’t have this.
I saved my favourites and regular workouts under my custom workouts and have an extensive library already.
How?
I’ve been saving them for over a year now. Open a workout, edit and save. I also created my own. They’re all available on whatsonzwift.com web page too. Not the detail and just then create from scratch if you have favourites. Doesn’t take long.
I would really just love to run workouts with only the companion app. During a workout my avatar isn’t really interacting with the terrain anyway. I’d rather have the option of watching youtube and just run the erg with my phone. Just give me a slider to pick if I want it to count more towards a flat route or more towards a climby route if people are worried about ERG miles.
I don’t really understand, this is something you can already do. Just minimize Zwift and open Youtube while still controlling the workout in Zwift Companion.
But if you want to do your workouts in the Companion app without any Zwift graphics anywhere, why would you do it in Zwift at all? You can easily run ERG mode from plenty other apps (most of them free) on your phone, such as the apps made by the trainer company (Wahoo, Tacx, etc.) or even from your head unit (Garmin or similar).
Flexibility my friend. I want to use 1 thing service, 1 training plan and i’d like to use it how I feel like it that day. Sometimes I hookup my laptop and sometimes I’m on an ipad. I’ve done everything you have described before and I don’t want to. I simply described how I would prefer to use it.
Wife was upset they removed one of the workout plans she was using from collections. I will download the zip file but I’m sure the progress she had made will be lost which is what was bothering her when she logged on and couldn’t find it.
Long overdue, the old library was basically unusable with all it’s completely arbitrary category names.
Not sure this is going to be a whole lot better. The workouts listed still seem to fall under the broad umbrella of “let’s make sure we use a lot of all the colors to look more exciting!!” with only a few tried and true, bread and butter workouts like 40/20
How to choose an individual workout from plan after the reorg?
Looks like most of the Workout Plans are gone. That’s a bummer. I liked the 4 wk FTP Booster.
I agree about the favorites. I thought it was a no brainer. Most athletes are creatures of habit. Which leads me to my next point I had a couple workouts that I would use frequently that were in the “plans” and it looks like now you cannot access those unless you’re currently in that plan. They locked the “plan” workouts again??
Lame. Should’ve left it alone. I was in the middle of the 10 to 12 week FTP booster. Now I have to mess around with zip files.
Its a real shame that you removed the “Baby on Board” workouts. These were really helpful and it was encouraging that you were promoting being safe and active in pregnancy (designed by pregnant athletes). It felt like such an inclusive initiative – and now I have 5 months ahead without them….
I didn’t remove anything… Zwift Insider doesn’t control what’s in the Zwift game. We just write about it.
You might contact Zwift and let them know! Some of them might be in other folders… you can also download the workouts from the link above.
Did they drop the FTP Builder plans or am I going blind in my old age?!
Has anyone had luck getting the downloaded workouts to show up in their custom workout folder. I downloaded them and tried dropping individual folders into my workout folder then just the individual .zwo files. Any luck from anyone less as I’m in the same boat as I was halfway through the TT Tuneup
Terrible, terrible idea.
Why not leave the old workouts where they can be accessed?
Just a box marked ‘legacy’ would have done it.
Once again, Zwift proves they don’t listen well.
So how do you access individual workouts in a plan? Like I would pick some out of the XC plan etc…
Why do you now have to “enroll” in a training plan? Unnecessary complication. Also as noted elsewhere the 10-12 week FTB builder has disappeared. I was just about to start.
Would it be possible to put the baby on board workouts into their own folder? The workouts are still there but it would be far easier to have them all in their own folder rather than having to try and scroll through the 292 30-60 minute work outs to try and work out which ones were part of the baby on board group
bad bad very bad
I am very displeased with this feature from the new update. Couldn’t the new organisation have been added to instead of replacing the old one? Every major changes like this affects people training. The options now of either having to upload or create workouts is not user friendly and is time consuming. Please zwift keep in mind that any changes you make to the platform affects people – not one box fits all! Don’t assume!
I am very displeased with this feature from the new update. Couldn’t the new organisation have been added to instead of replacing the old one? Every major changes like this affects people training. The options now of either having to upload or create workouts is not user friendly and is time consuming. Please zwift keep in mind that any changes you make to the platform affects people – not one box fits all! Don’t assume!
How do you download/copy the run workouts? there is no copy button like they have in the bike workouts. Is there maybe a way I can pull them out of the files? kind of like how you add custom workouts, can I also extract the built in ones?
I like that they reorganized the main page…that is great. I utterly hate that they deleted all the “legacy” workouts and training plans. I was using the Le E’tap training plan…now I have to download everything and somehow organize them all in a single folder which allows for no organization. Which means my structured training is essentially hosed.
They need to fix it so you can download the old folders individually and they add themselves to the rest of the folders. (i.e. you want the Le E’tap plan, or the GCN Zero to Hero? Download it only, and it’ll show up with its own folder, in order, like it was.)
And seconding the need for being able to favourite workouts. And add them to a personalized calendar–it would be great to be able to plan your workouts out ahead of time all at once, instead of having to try to find the next one when you log in.
I’ve just downloaded the 10-12 wk ftp builder, and loaded it into the custom workout folder. The workout file names were all logical/sequential, but in zwift I now just have 12 files called day 1, 12 files called day 2, etc. Not very helpful! Is there a way to change the display names?
You can group files by the week folder in main training plan folder. Then you will see grouped training plan in your custom workouts.
How do you fo that when your not a bloody IT wizard?
Yes but the 10-12 week FTP builder was a progressive plan; i.e., the program got harder as the weeks progressed. You can’t see that in the files as far as I can see. So just grouping each day doesn’t help. Where can you find Day 1, week 10 for example _ how do you know which day goes with which week?
I cannot stand the latest round of updates, why have you wiped all the training programs!? What a royal pain in the ass. You have made the experience sooooo much worse!!!!
Jerome – I’m not Zwift. I just write about Zwift. You’ll need to take up your complaints with them!
One of the worst ‘enhancements’ in zwift that I can remember in my ddddd years of zwifting. They have cleaned up the main screen which is great if you use one of the few standard workouts, but what if you have hundreds and need to organise, filter and search them? If you go into a ride and then workouts you can access the old layout, but that still doesn’t have scroll wheel or keyboard key scrolling.
I’m currently going through to see how to organise workouts as the update has changed the ZWO file schema, eg. Categories and subcategories no longer work to organise workouts (shame). Contacted Zwift support who tell me there is no guide/reference material for the ZWO schema (bizarre, or the just don’t want to share it). I have found that in the customer workout folders you can use sub folders to organise workouts (windows platform).
Why couldn’t they have just copied someone’s workout pages like Trainerroad or Xert with a search, filter and favourites option for all workouts. Or enhance the web/companion to let you find a workout and then mark it to do, then we you login that ‘to do’ workout is listed at the top.
Feels like this is an enhancement aimed at the new users, or Peloton market, making it simpler to find the basics, but removing features or lacking features that the more experienced users who have lots of workouts need….. will these people look towards other systems if Zwift is making changes like this? I’ve just signed with Trainerday for their workouts, plans and HR zone workouts… I’d happily pay extra for decent training features inside of zwift, but this change indicates that Zwift are moving away from the serious training focus.
Note, I’ve been using Zwift daily for 5 years, help manage a club and lead ~3 rides a week. Great platform, but this workouts enhancement has me perpelexed. I see users already moving to another new platform who offer cash prizes, we don’t want to lose more who go in search of better workout management and training features.
Please someone have 10/12Week FTP Builder in .ZWO file ?
I’ve just sent this to Zwift because I can’t believe what a mess they’ve made of the training plan refresh:
Who was responsible for the ‘refresh’ of the training plans? I can only think that the project that oversaw this did no consultation with end users whatsoever.
I accept that occasionally things need freshening up. And it was good that you can still access previous plans so you can download them and then upload them back to your custom workouts.
However.
When you download them, the ordering of the plan is included within the file name. So for Hunters it had 1.1; 1.2 etc built into the file name. You could therefore see which ones you needed to do in relation to all the other workouts.
When you access the Zwift app, the file name has changed and the app presents the workouts back to you in alphabetical order!!!!!
Who thought this was acceptable?! The whole point of a training plan is you do them in a certain order. Any athlete of any discipline will tell you this.
Presenting workouts to you in alphabetical order is so pointless from a training perspective. Oh I’ll do a workout that starts with a D today.
The vast majority of folk won’t know how to string together individual workouts.
Do I focus on recovery? Do I focus on Threshold? Endurance etc etc. And even within those categories – Fast pedalling? Taper? Pacing etc etc.
Just think it’s really really poor. And a massive retrograde step for the software.
I’m gonna hope I can edit the name of the custom work outs I’ve imported to include a numbering format so I can see what order I’m supposed to do this 28 sessions in. Otherwise it will be a waste of time.
Where can I find the 4wk FTP Booster? I can only see the FTP builder under plans and the 10-12wk FTP Builder in collections.
I can see nothing good about this reorganisation at all. Inflexible filtering, no ability to ‘favourite’ workouts, good plans removed.
In the menu option on workouts I can no longer see the FTP nor the time of each block…2 most important bits of info…have these been moved somewhere else as only way to now see it is to open up and start the workout which is rubbish
I liked it better when selecting a running workout, it used to show the exact speed and number of minutes for each segment.
Now, it’s all percentages of some kind.
I don’t get it.
The Zip file doesn’t exist. I just don’t know how Zwift keep messing up the workouts section.
Exceedingly bad idea, because now the only training plans are the official plans and everything else is geared to individual workouts, e.g. the GCN from Zero to Hero has disappeared. This is absolutely not user friendly. They could have just added the new categories to quickly find a one-off workout but not remove the other collections…