Tacx Training‪™‬ 4+

Outdoor cycling indoors

Garmin

    • 4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
    • Free

Description

Take your indoor training to the next level. From phone to tablet to desktop, this app gets you the best virtual cycling experience. Simply connect your Tacx Smart trainer to the Tacx Training app and the world becomes your playground. Explore our large collection of high-quality training films, including everything from famous spring classics to the Alps. Or create your own workouts, and control just how much pain you’re feeling tomorrow.

While you ride, your speed, power, cadence, and heart rate are displayed on-screen. All your indoor training data automatically loads to the Garmin Connect™ app where you can track and analyze your training stats afterwards.
Year-round cycling has just got simpler.

Download and use the app for free or choose for Premium or Premium HD

Premium and Premium HD:
Streaming high-quality video workouts
3D GPS map workouts
Live opponents
Import your Strava routes or create GPS workouts

Free:
Structured workouts based on slope, power, or FTP
Analyze your activities with Garmin Connect
Export your data to Garmin Connect
Sync your workouts and activities between devices


Connectivity:
Connects your Smart trainer only through Bluetooth 4.0.

Please Note: Internet access is required. When Internet connection fails, functionality is limited.


Don’t forget to email our support team if you have any questions, concerns, compliments, or feature requests. https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?productID=696770&tab=topics

Designed and Produced in the Netherlands

What’s New

Version 4.54.3

The Feed has been replaced by 'My Activities'.
Several bug fixes and other enhancements to improve your training experience.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

Flowrpwr ,

Meets my needs but needs refinement

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.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback, we are taking your suggestions into consideration for our product backlog.

MD_425255 ,

Pretty amazing and could be even more with a few tweaks

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.

Developer Response ,

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

W9W ,

Great alternative to Zwift, but a few problems remain in training analysis

This is a really outstanding app to use with a smart trainer. The virtual ride experience is much more realistic than Zwift; the model used for the climbing and descending is much better, and the road feel available on a Tacx Neo trainer or Neo Bike is a nice feature.

Problems: both on the iPad and iPhone version, the analysis graphs (of speed, power, heart rate, etc.) available at the end of a ride do not get plotted with proper scaling of the data; much of the data goes off scale, and there is no way currently to resize the y axis of the graphs. This needs to be addressed.

Also: there should be a way to send the ride data to the Garmin Connect service in addition to Strava. At least one would expect that the Garmin Connect service would be an option given that Garmin International now owns Tacx. Maybe this can be added in a future version.

Overall, this is really great app, and I prefer it to using Zwift because these rides available are real world. One can try out the courses for Milan-San Remo or the Tour de France climbs. (I need to be much fitter to survive the latter...).

App Privacy

The developer, Garmin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
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  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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  • Identifiers
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