VQ Velocity puts a heavy emphasis on leveling up your game metabolically, claiming that their platform can calculate your fat-to-carb utilization (a formula that uses sex, age, and heart rate for a basic output), lactate threshold, and more. The VQ Velocity platform focuses on two main areas within their classes: skills work-like cadence, holding aero position, or standing out of the saddle-and energy systems, like threshold focus, VO2 max focus, or a blend of the two. VQ Velocity is an online cycling platform that preaches the idea that “fast is a skill” on the bike. RELATED: We Review Sufferfest’s New Replacement, Wahoo SYSTM VQ Velocity For only $15/month, it’s a pretty sweet deal: a coach via SYSTM, sessions that can be done indoors or outdoors, and a high-quality virtual world via RGT. Together, SYSTM and RGT form the new Wahoo X membership, where you get the best of both platforms. RGT takes real routes and makes them virtually accessible (complete with avatars) along with weekly group rides – it’s like Wahoo’s/RGT’s take on Zwift. The SYSTM workouts can be used indoors or uploaded to the Wahoo ELEMNT bike computer and replicated outside. The SYSTM indoor cycling platform is focused on working with you via AI (and sometimes with a real coach) to create a progressive training program. Wahoo X is a combination of Wahoo SYSTM, formerly Sufferfest, and Wahoo RGT, formerly RGT. Wahoo X is Wahoo’s new and improved subscription cycling platform. RELATED: Triathlete’s Guide to Indoor Training Section divider WAHOO X (Photo: Wahoo SYSTM)

If you’re looking to switch up your scenery from Watopia to, say, the streets of a small town in Italy, there’s no better time than now to test out a new virtual cycling experience.

While Zwift is one of the most popular indoor cycling softwares to sync with your trainer and/or bike, it’s not the only one out there. And now, most people are searching for something perhaps unthinkable even a decade ago: the best apps for indoor cycling. We went from using a resistance knob on the back of a trainer and staring at the wall in front of us to smart trainers altering the resistance while we cruise around a virtual Innsbruck on virtual indoor cycling platforms. Indoor riding has come a long way in the past decade. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!

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