Customisable HR ERG aggression

Feature Requests
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I use HR ERG mode to do a 45 minute zone 2 ride. However, I’m often nearly 15 minutes into my ride before I reach my target BPM.

I saw this topic, which explains I can create my own custom ramp-up phase before switching to HR ERG mode. However, it would be more convenient if there was some ability to customise the aggression of HR ERG mode.

Ideally, I’d like to hit my target BPM in 5 minutes or so. I’d love to see a new setting we can tweak, to add a scaling factor to how quickly the power increases.

In a truly perfect world, I’d love some way to say “Get me to the target BPM in X minutes” when planning the training session.

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I will have to think about that. It scares me :slight_smile: Rather than designing custom workouts you can always manually do it as well, meaning just start pedalling in ERG or slope mode for a few minutes then click on HR+ and it will take off from the power level you were at in ERG.

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I’m also in favour of such request (already suggested)

I would create a sort of gradient based on interval duration. To be safe you can set a cap to the max resistance increased per minute.

4

This seems like it would have a high risk of introducing problems. I think Alex’s idea to keep it simple reduces the risks of issues.

Use erg to bring HR in range and then hold it. Use plus minus in the erg section if feeling good or bad that day.

The biggest issue I have is that I get uncomfortable and need to get off about every 30 or 40 minutes and HR mode doesn’t like that

Dave

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Yes, HR hates movement in general. We need to find a way to do zone 2 without movement… Thanks for agreeing with my thinking :slight_smile: