I’ve been training on a Wattbike at the gym for about 6 months – they hold classes on them a few times a week so I try to go at least once a week, often with a spin class in between and then my big MTB ride at the weekend. What I like about the Wattbike is that you can easily measure your progress. I usually try and do the 3 minute MMP, 20 minute and 2 x 8 minute tests every 6 weeks or so and am seeing decent progress of roughly 25% increase in power in the last 6 months. In between the tests I usually just do interval training and mix it up to keep it interesting,
Last week was a 10 minute warmup, and then 3 minutes at Zone 5 power then 3 minutes at Zone 2, repeated 5 times with a view to keep the power at the upper end of the zones at all times which I just about managed.
Previous week was a 10 minute warmup and then 10 seconds absolute max power, then 50 second recover repeated 5 times. The aim being to keep the max power as constant as possible. Mine went from 1150 to 950, to 750 then 480 and I could hardly do the last one which was sub 400. Couldn’t get off the bike for 10 minutes afterwards!
Only discovered the app this week so will start using that – have been taking photos of the screen at the end and am slightly annoyed the trainer hasn’t pointed out I could just sync my phone..