Tacx Training‪™‬ 4+

Good: The interface is good. It connects with my trainer great. I can upload my own GPS routes and ride them. I get to experience the elevation changes smoothly. The view shows a cool overhead map view as I progress on the course while also showing current cycling data and an elevation profile- all the things I want at once. The rides will sync with my Strava account automatically if I choose.
Bad: No way to edit my own uploaded GPS workout names/titles. Also - GPS rides feature a “select subcourse” option but there are no subcourses when I select it and no instructions for creating a subcourse in a GPS file. No instructions for the app on TacX or Garmin sites - and no manual either. Tutorial videos? TacX tutorial videos are way too old and don’t match the current program. FAQs don’t scratch the surface.

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I have been using my Tacx trainer for a little over a month and love it. Who knew that it’s more enjoyable to ride the virtual/real course than train with a movie? Or a book? I appreciate the scenery, the automatic adjustments for terrain, it makes the ride almost real. Add some earphones and music and you could believe you are there. Amazing experience riding around the world on beautiful locations or historic routes

On the needs improvement side, since I am both running and riding indoor/outdoor and mostly use the Tacx when it’s not ideal to go outside on the road (dark, winter, rain, etc.) I wish the transition between the Garmin training plans were more seamless across devices. As it is, you pretty much need to choose one or the other. You can ride your Garmin Connect plan on the Tacx, but no video. You can create a Tacx coaching plan, but can’t modify the days, #of days, etc. and can only ride it on the Tacx. All the pieces are there to create a seamless Garmin fitness ecosystem between real and virtual world. Raining? No problem, just keep on your training schedule and hop on the Tacx to ride in Ireland…. Hopefully it’s in the works. Overall, light years head of my old resistance wind trainer, highly recommend.

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I like Garmin products and feel that this compliments nicely with their trainer. It does a good job of giving me an excellent work out, excellent logging and data about my performance. My wife and I each have an iPad and ride side by side using this app in our training room. We like being able to ride together and motivate each other. Would really like the ability to cast our two sessions to a tv in split screen mode.

Now for the downside. The program seems to be full of random glitches and occasional crashes. Today we couldn’t do a group ride, got an error message. Sometimes it won’t show the amount of ev elation changes at the bottom of the screen. Often the screens freeze with a spinning circle then resume. Strangely often in exactly the same place for both my wife and I. Also randomly won’t connect to the trainer if we leave the trainer on. We’ve learned to unplug it each to,e we’re done training to avoid having to reboot the trainer (Tacx).

Hi, thank you for your feedback. We will take this feedback with us to improve the app.