After seven years of producing interval videos overlaid onto official race footage, The Sufferfest has an app that integrates with heart rate monitors, power meters, cadence sensors and smart trainers for interactive trainer workouts. It works on iPhone, Mac and PC, and an Android app is in beta.
The licensed race footage from events like the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and Paris-Roubaix syncs nicely with the prescribed intervals. Apex Coaching founder Neal Henderson (who works with pros like Rohan Dennis) translated The Sufferfest's interval scale for perceived effort to a specific power target, based on your FTP (functional threshold power).
The videos are well done and have been popular in trainer classes. Having power targets makes the workouts much more specific than rate of perceived exertion (RPE), and of course having power allows you to not only quantify the workload but also measure improvement.
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There are 36 workout videos, searchable by type and duration. The preview function for each is good, showing the workout in bar-graph form, giving a text overview and bullet-point synopsis, but also offering a video preview of the workout.
Each workout has intervals with specific targets for heart rate, power and cadence. When tools for each are paired via Bluetooth or ANT+, you get color-coded feedback as to whether you are at, above or below the targets. If you are using a smart trainer like a Kickr, then the app controls the resistance. If you don't have a power meter (or a smart trainer), the app has a virtual power function that lets you train with watts based on a trainer-specific algorithm that incorporates speed and cadence.
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