Dead Rising Off The Record Trainer

[Jon Levatte]

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He is an animal trainer and guardian of Snowflake, one of the Yucatan Casino's tigers. Due to his low intellect and sensitivity to others judging him, he prefers to stay away from people and be with his prized tigers instead.

Following the zombie outbreak, Ted vowed to find Snowflake fresh meat, which means killing unfortunate survivors. Being pointed at by other people for his obesity and illness, Ted believes Snowflake is his only friend and goes berserk when he suspects someone is making fun of him.

At 4 a.m. on September 25, Chuck Greene enters the Yucatan Casino. Walking around the casino, Chuck sees a man named Lenny Mooney in front of him, who immediately runs away when he sees him. Surprised, Chuck turns to see Ted in front of him, who overwhelms him and knocks him out, saying "Snowflake hungry". Chuck wakes up to see Ted dragging his body straight under the sleeping tigress. Happy Ted says that Snowflake will have a fresh meal, to which Chuck replies that there are zombies around for her to eat. Ted, however, is outraged at this idea, noting that Snowflake needs fresh meat as opposed to the rotted offerings the zombies give. Chuck gets an idea and tells him that he will go find some fresh steaks for her, but Ted refuses to agree to it. The trainer walks up to the tigress and tells Chuck about his life: how people made fun of him and that his only friend is Snowflake. Chuck, wanting to smooth things over, asks Ted for his name and tells him that there may be a way out of this situation and that they just need to slow down and start the conversation all over again. Unfortunately, Ted interprets Chuck's words that Chuck thinks he himself is slow in the mental sense, further enraging him. As Snowflake rouses from her slumber, Ted tells her that people aren't nice and they both need to attack Chuck.

After the fight, the defeated Ted falls to the ground in the Snowflake's paddock and says that he is not feeling well. Ted begins to crawl and calls Snowflake to eat him, believing that the tigress will feed on his corpse and dies.

With Ted dead, Chuck has a choice: either kill Snowflake or try to tame and save her. Killing Snowflake does nothing. For saving her, Chuck will receive a large amount of prestige points and the opportunity to give Katey the tigress as a gift. After killing Ted and taming Snowflake, Chuck can save Lenny Mooney, who is hiding at the casino reception. In return for saving the him, Lenny offers to turn on slot machines in the entire casino.

You can pair a power meter or a heart rate strap here, but not other sensor types like a smart trainer or cadence sensor, which is honestly a bit weird since they already have that code based in the other app. Seems like a silly limitation.

At that point you can tap next to pair up any trainers or sensors that you might have. You can save multiple sensors here. You can also add a virtual partner, which is where you might add a friend that recently did the ride and try and beat them.

The company also has training plans as part of the app, as well as videos and workouts beyond just cycling. These include yoga workouts, strength training, and a handful of running ones. And even mental focused exercises.

The workout will iterate through, automatically adjusting the power on your train accordingly. You can skip or go ahead in an interval by pressing the VCR-like buttons above. Or you can adjust intensity by pressing the +/- buttons. You can see your target and actual watts.

Hi

Great write-up.

I just started using Xert and love it. The way Xert constantly adjust and the way it make you work hard for that next breakthought effort.

With Xert you dont need to do that dreaded 20 min. FTP test. Xert calculate your FTP from all you rides and pretty accurate. Xert had my FTP at XXX watts without doing a FTP test. I then did a FTP test and it was within 1 watt of what Xert had calculated.

I use the Tacx app exclusively for ad hoc workouts. Basically my coach creates workouts for me to do. It was great because it used to allow you to make quick changes to power through the app. But they cut that feature out in the new version.

Excellent review. One of the things that the review does not cover in detail is the community aspects of app. As someone who uses the Sufferfest, the online community that mostly congregates on FB, is one of the most valuable and supportive aspects of the app. The spirit, encouragement, and support that come from the community is really incredible (especially around the time they do the Tour of Sufferlandia).

I have been a user of The Sufferfest for a decade and a seasonal user of Rouvy for two years. I also have tried RGT in its early iteration but gave up when it required two devices to run and while TrainerRoad is excellent for what it is I find the chart format not very motivating.. Zwift is not for everyone and I am one of those.

Love the detailed write up. For what its worth I have been a TR sub for over 3 years now and just love it. The team, forums, calendar, workout builder, podcast and community are top notch. If you want to get faster it will do that for sure.

For others that want something with a little more interaction zwift group rides are a lot of fun and Fulgaz works well. Peloton digital app is meh without the bike personally (used to have one) but the app overall with meditation, running, yoga, bootcamp, dancing (most recent), etc are pretty hard to beat for $12.99 a month.

Non-pro tip:

For those not able to purchase a smart trainer right away and need help, Zwift + the Speed Transmitter app will allow you to bypass the need for power sensors. Not sure how many other apps that Speed Transmitter works with?

Hi, I have an old Tacx Flow with the Tacx smart head unit that plugged into a USB port on my laptop to control resistance when using the now defunct TTS4. Are any of the new apps able to provide this same functionality i.e. connectivity via USB cable as opposed to Bluetooth? Thanks.

Most underappreciated feature of Zwift is the seamless integration with TrainingPeaks. My coach puts a structured workout into TP, and it shows up that day for me to do in Zwift without me doing a thing. You mention TP integration with Rouvy. I assume that works the same way, but the integration in Zwift is pretty much the single biggest reason that I continue to use it as opposed to TR (which seems, in part, to want to be a competitor to TrainingPeaks).

Awesome review. I too mainly use TR for last 4 years. Tried sufferfest but novality wore off on me. Think seasoned athletes like just plans and target. Follow the numbers. I just watch Netflix or YouTube on trainer.

Thanks again

Andrew. IG. @ lufbra88

Question to anyone. If you are just the normal recreational rider, no coach, no plan, just want to ride beautiful scenic rides that does well simulating those rides on my trainer, which is the best platform for that? Kinomap rouvy?

Be sure to take full advantage of the search function! In addition to the map search, you can also find routes by filtering through classifications such as the average grade, distance, or total ascent. That search is easily accessible through the website.

Personally what I do is dual-record all my workouts with my Garmin (so my training load stats stay up to date), and then leave Strava with the export from TR/Zwift (but delete the Garmin one), and then I delete the TR/Zwift one from Garmin. Yeah, I know, stupid.

I have tried several of the above platforms, but in truth not all of them. I found my way to The Sufferfest and have never looked elsewhere. I find the workouts are so well designed to train specifically a certain area of your cycling fitness, but when combined in a training plan in their prescribed order the results are simply staggering.

If you want interaction, and virtual worlds this will not suit you, but if you want to get fitter and faster with structured training indoors not aimless riding then The Sufferfest will take some beating.

Thanks for those comments, Leighton! Indeed, the Sufferlandrian community is one of the most relentlessly positive, fun and supportive groups anywhere. For anyone keen to see it, you can see the fun here: link to facebook.com

It is awesome that there are so many good apps out. Reading the comments, all of them of have big fans. Each one seems to appeal to a slightly different user that is looking for an experience that meets there needs. Or they use multiple apps. I have only used Zwift but will be checking out others.

Having just discovered BigRingVR can wholly recommend! Great interface, easy to setup on PC with ANT only. Worked flawlessly with my ancient ant dongle and the elite suito! And love the rides available.

I can only confirm, Veloreality is great. As a long-time user, I am currently testing the 720p streaming offer: excellent for extending the already huge range of courses available and it works absolutely flawlessly.

I have my garmin only to receive from the C1 and the phone to receive from both the C1 and the trainer.

I will remove the pm from the phone and do a ride with just the trainer connected to the phone and the pm connected to the garmin. That should give me a good idea if there is major issues with using just the trainer.

I got the perfpro and has no regret. Only one time payment and very good value. The only downside is it is PC only and has no android or iOS version so I have to use my laptop for it instead of tablet.

Bollocks.. Tacx is filmed with Bertha.. hence it has the highest film quality in the industry, by a mile.

Look at the actual leaning into the corner. Garmin recompresses them to shit.

But the film quality is by far the best.

Anyway I thought it would be good if you could mention the new Group Workout feature in your review. I know it has just been launched, but it might appeal to some who want to have a social aspect in their deliberate cycling training.

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