

The product has always centered around the training plans, which started with a broad selection of plans covering a spectrum of cycling disciplines, training volumes, and athlete levels. These pillars were established in the beginning, and support every enhancement that has been introduced since. The Philosophy of TrainerRoadTrainerRoad is built on three pillars to make people faster: Spending an hour with him was fun, informative, motivating, and a really interesting look into TrainerRoad’s culture. Jonathan is passionate about cycling - racing MTBs, crits, or time trials just about every weekend. With Jonathan in his garage in Reno, Nevada, and me in my fit studio in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana, we discussed TrainerRoad’s philosophy, target audience, and deliberate approach to product improvement. I had the pleasure of doing my first TrainerRoad group workout with TrainerRoad’s Communications Director, Jonathan Lee. Where only the pointy end of the field had access to expensive, proprietary training tools before, TrainerRoad opened the doors to a much larger crowd. They weren’t necessarily the first to do any of these things, but they put them together in a tidy package that made it easier and more affordable for more people to train with power. Through the use of VirtualPower, adoption of the open ANT+ protocol to support a wide variety of sensors, a robust selection of workouts designed as part of a an equally impressive collection of training plans, useful metrics, and a simple user experience, TrainerRoad ushered in a new era in indoor cycling by bringing power-based workouts to the masses.

If you want to get faster, you need to give TrainerRoad a look. There are certainly flashier or more entertaining products out there, but for the individual who is intrinsically motivated by seeing their own improvement, there are few that will do a better job of giving that rider the tools they need than TrainerRoad.

Since TrainerRoad’s introduction in 2011, the goal has always been to create an intuitive and easy-to-use tool that allows an athlete to focus on their cycling performance goals. That simple philosophy is at the heart of what makes TrainerRoad continue to thrive in an increasingly crowded indoor training market. That is the first question the TrainerRoad team asks themselves when they consider new features for inclusion in the application.
