When I started riding indoors seriously, the first thing I did was sign up for Zwift. Then TrainerRoad. Then Wahoo's platform for a month just to compare. By the time I sat down and added it all up, I was paying over $60 a month just to train on a stationary bike in my garage.

That bothered me.

Not because the apps aren't good — some of them are genuinely excellent. But there's a gap in the market that nobody was filling: a solid, no-nonsense training tracker for cyclists who know what they're doing and just want to log their work without a recurring subscription eating into their budget every month.

That's why I built VeloWorkout.

The Problem with the Subscription Model

The big indoor cycling platforms have converged on roughly $15–20/month. Zwift is around $20. TrainerRoad is $20. Wahoo's subscription is in the same ballpark. That's not a criticism — building and maintaining software costs real money, and these companies employ real teams.

But it does mean that if you want to track your FTP progress, log your interval sessions, and see how your fitness is trending over time, you're looking at $240 a year, minimum. For a lot of cyclists — especially those training on their own, not chasing race results, just trying to get fitter — that's a hard sell.

What We Actually Built

VeloWorkout focuses on the core things that matter for structured training:

FTP tracking. Your Functional Threshold Power is the single most important number in cycling fitness. VeloWorkout makes it easy to log your FTP tests and watch how that number moves over weeks and months.

Session logging. Every ride gets recorded — duration, intensity, power zones, notes. You build a real training history you can actually look back at.

Progress stats. Charts, trends, personal records. The data you want to see when you're mid-block and wondering if the training is actually working.

That's it. We didn't bolt on a virtual world or gamified group rides. We focused on being really good at the training side.

Who VeloWorkout Is For

If you're the kind of rider who already knows their zones, plans their own training blocks, and wants a clean place to log and review that work — VeloWorkout was built for you.

If you want to race digital rivals through French countryside at 6am, Zwift does that better than we ever will, and that's fine. Different tools for different riders.

Where We Are Now

VeloWorkout currently doesn't require a subscription. We're focused on building something genuinely useful before we think about monetisation. That might change at some point — we're honest about that — but right now the goal is to earn your trust by being the best training tracker we can be.

If you're a serious cyclist tired of paying for features you don't use, give VeloWorkout a try. We built it because we wanted it to exist. We think you'll feel the same way.