Gradient – Indoor Cycling

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About this app

Gradient turns your smart trainer into a training plan you can ride. Choose a workout and the trainer sets the resistance for you, so you never have to shift. Choose a route and the trainer follows the road, from the ramps of Alpe d'Huez to the Poggio above San Remo.

WORKOUTS THE TRAINER HOLDS FOR YOU
• 18 ready workouts: recovery and endurance rides, tempo, sweet spot, threshold 2x20, over-unders, VO2 max 5x3, 30/30 and 40/20 intervals, microbursts, Tabata, sprints, a pyramid, cadence drills, a ramp test and a 20-minute FTP test
• ERG mode: the trainer holds each step's power, whatever your cadence or gear
• Targets in % of your FTP or in watts, with ramps and cadence goals
• Harder or easier in 5 % steps at any time, or skip to the next step
• See the current step, its target, the time left, what comes next and the whole workout in zone colors

HEART RATE TRAINING
• Ride by heart rate: the app sets the power that brings your heart into the zone and keeps it there
• Shows the heart rate expected by now, because a heart lags behind the effort, so you don't chase it
• Made for honest Zone 2 rides and aerobic intervals

REAL ROUTES
• The five Monuments of cycling: Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Il Lombardia
• Alpe d'Huez, the Norseman Xtreme Triathlon bike leg, and a short resistance check
• The trainer gets every change of grade; your speed comes from your power, your weight and the road
• The profile is colored by grade, with the distance and climbing left
• Adjust the difficulty from 0 to 150 % of the real grades
• Create your custom routes on our site

CLEAR NUMBERS
• Big, readable fields: power with its zone, cadence, speed, heart rate and the trainer's resistance in watts
• The last 5 minutes as graphs of power, resistance and heart rate
• Set your FTP and max heart rate in the app; zones follow
• The screen stays on while you ride

YOUR TRAININGS, ORGANIZED
• Workouts and routes in folders
• Add your own as CSV files: open them, share them to the app, or link a folder (Google Drive, Downloads…) that stays in sync

YOUR RIDES ARE YOURS
• Every ride is saved as a standard FIT file on your phone, every minute while you ride
• Take it to Strava, Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, intervals.icu or any app that reads FIT files
• No account, no subscription, no ads, no tracking, and no internet access: your data stays on your phone

WORKS WITH
• Smart trainers with Bluetooth FTMS (Fitness Machine Service), which most current trainers support, and Tacx trainers on older firmware (FE-C over Bluetooth)
• Bluetooth power meters, cadence and speed sensors, and heart rate monitors
• When two sensors measure the same thing (power from the trainer and from your pedals), you choose which one the app uses
• Your sensors are remembered and connected again when you start

Indoor training is hard work: ride within your limits. Gradient isn't a medical device.