Hello everyone,
last week i did some indoor interval training:
I had to do a lot of short units of around 800w that lasted about 6 seconds. I noticed that the smarttrainer needed a few seconds to set the resistance correctly.
my setup:
the whole thing in the ios XERT app.
is it possible to speed up the regulation of the resistance?
Thanks in advance
Which workout(s) was this for?
FWIW, I would recommend trying SLOPE mode for short all-out sprint workouts. That will allow you to control the efforts through your own gearing & cadence. It takes some time to get used to if you’ve not ridden slope mode much, but in the end I think it provides a much better experience for sessions like the one you’re describing.
Here’s examples of me riding short burst intervals in AUTO mode under ERG control –
Here’s a Slope mode example demonstrating what I can do under my control (gears/cadence) –
And here I am deliberately exceeding the targets towards the end of a set on a different workout.
Only issue Slope mode can’t rsolve is flywheel spindown gaps (red arrows), but those don’t matter.
It’s the high/peak strain points you’re want to capture to improve workout compliance.
Change to Slope mode before the transition countdown begins for the first interval and remain in Slope mode for as long as you want. Once you’re accustomed to doing this you may decide to ride some workouts entirely in Slope mode.
If you haven’t done so already I also suggest turning off power smoothing on KICKR trainers so you can see what you actually generate during intervals – Wahoo Power Smoothing
Thanks for your answer. I tried it, but to be honest…during a workout it is more than inconvenient, to click from AUTO to SLOPE again and again. I hope that the interface to Mywhoosh will be ready at some point. That would possibly eliminate this point or I would only have to switch ERG on/off…in the my whoosh app. The Xert app would then be unnecessary.
Thank you. I’ll check the smoothing, if it’s on. Attached: Imagine to put slope on/off. In this example it’s better, just to ride in slope. More better: To have a interface in mywhoosh what it makes by it’s own.
I recently rode the Criterium 5 series workout split between AUTO mode for a double warm-up then switched to Slope mode for the remainder.
This was a unique session where I ran on EBC iOS while monitoring Xert Magic Buckets (XMB) on my Garmin 830.
After the first set of micro-bursts, I switched to using XMB.
Here’s what that workout looked like –
I met the total low/high/peak targets for the day when the Buckets filled. I could have stopped but I decided to add more XSS since the workout was still running on EBC with remaining intervals.
You wouldn’t normally ride indoors like this, but it demonstrates an advantage to riding in Slope mode and how XMB guides your efforts to meet your XSS targets.
Oh, that looks nice. Unfortunately, I can’t really comment as I have a different setup - including a Wahoo Elemnt Roam. However, this is not active when I ride indoors (see setup above). The XMB’s are new to me and I haven’t tested them yet.
Is there perhaps an overview where slope, auto, ERG etc. are explained in more detail?
Unfortunately Wahoo doesn’t offer a developer platform like Garmin does for their devices. That may change one day but will likely only work with newer models designed to support add-ons.
Xert will be adding XMB features to EBC next so more users will be able to run it on their phone. No timeline on when that might happen but hopefully soon. 
I use the Android EBC, so I put into Slope mode at the start of a block of intervals and then back to erg/auto for the rest parts. This means I’m not forever switching, it does mean you have to vary cadence/gears frequently, but that is a racing skill. My only beef with the interface is you have to go sequentially through the modes to flip between Auto and Slope, would be great if it was a drop down.
I’m hoping the next version of EBC has a toggle configuration option where the only modes active are AUTO and Slope when the toggle option is enabled.
I’m hoping the next version of EBC has MB 
At least a way to directly go to each mode. I often use the ERG mode as well, but you have to cycle through a lot of modes each time you change it.
