Technogym offers cyclists high-tech training solution

Technogym has launched MYCYCLING, a complete home cycling training solution aimed at enhancing and transforming avid cyclists’ outdoor performance.

MYCYCLING combines a hi-tech smart trainer, a native app with personalised training programmes and access to a network of professional trainers who can guide cyclists throughout their training journeys.

A key feature of MYCYCLING is the inclusion of a specific training system called Technogym Neuromuscular Training (TNT). TNT is a collaboration between Technogym’s Medical and Scientific Research Centre and high performance athletes, coaches, physiologists and sports trainers. TNT aims to enhance metabolic and neuromuscular characteristics to improve outdoor performance.

The MYCYCLING smart trainer

The smart trainer is designed to offer maximum stability during training, especially when simulating outdoor sprints, and is suitable for use with your own mountain or road bike. The heart of the product is the electro-mechanical brake that controls every second you are in the seat with acute precision. MYCYCLING also features a torque sensor that directly measures your power with a precision tolerance of approximately one percent.

Optical sensors analyse the thrust during training, and allow you to visualise the smooth circular pedaling stroke as well as the symmetry between left and right foot. The fly-wheel has been designed to ensure a natural pedaling sensation that provides the same sense of inertia felt when pedaling outdoors.

The MYCYCLING app

The dedicated MYCYCLING app (available from most app stores) encompasses programmes, tests, different routes and bio-feedback. You control the trainer using a handlebar-mounted smartphone that connect to the trainer via a Bluetooth connection. The MYCYCLING app can also be connected to Garmin and Strava accounts to enjoy an overview of your indoor and outdoor training data and drive yourself towards increasingly higher performance levels.

The MYCYCLING app will see South African cyclists ‘ride’ along the world’s most iconic cycling routes, such as Passo dello Stelvio, Col de l’Alpe d’Huez and many others. You can even challenge yourself to compete with other MYCYCLING users anywhere in the world, via the app.

Personalised training programmes

MYCYCLING users will discover a range of personalised training programs that will enhance their performance using TNT. TNT starts with a preliminary test to ascertain your anaerobic power and cadence thresholds via two tests carried out indoors: the Technogym Maximal Test and the FTP (Functional Threshold Power) test.

Based on the results, your training will be personalised and will last 18 weeks, comprised of three phases of six weeks each. The three phases are preparation, development and transition. You can start from the first phase and follow the entire programme or begin from a later phase, ideally integrating it with outdoor, long-distance sessions.

The TNT programme consists of training sessions of 40-70 minutes that constantly changes the cadence and power levels for comprehensive neuromuscular activation.

Professional coach network

Whatever your goals are, you can access the MYCYCLING app and select one of the programmes designed by professional coaches to help you achieve specific training goals, or you can also choose to train with the support of the best cycling experts in the international cycling community, certified by Technogym, whether you are an amateur, an athlete or a coach.

The MYCYCLING system was launched by Technogym and local distributor PentaSystems at the 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour Expo, and sells for a recommended retail price of R29,995.00 including VAT.