From looking at blank walls and riding in isolation, to being immersed in a virtual world where you can interact with others, Zwift has become a cycling household name.
Featuring expansive worlds to ride from the comfort of inside from fictional landscapes to real-world climbs, Zwift has helped make indoor cycling something to explore and provide fun. Featuring more gamification elements than many of the other indoor cycling apps available, it utilises challenges and community events to keep users coming back for more.
What is Zwift?
Zwift is an interactive cycling platform that mimics real-world cycling, via a turbo trainer or exercise bike and a screen, allowing you to train and race against other cyclists from all around the world in the comfort of your own home.
But it’s more than just a game, there’s a physical element that makes it a captivating and immersive experience thanks to the relationship between rider, bicycle and turbo trainer.
If you are riding a smart trainer (see below), using clever in-game algorithms, the resistance you pedal against will automatically be adjusted by Zwift to match the topography of the Zwift road you’re riding on, increasing on hills and decreasing on descents. The game will even detect when you’re drafting behind another rider and reduce your required power, albeit fractionally, just like in real life.
Zwift is compatible with a host of platforms including Mac and PC, smartphones, Apple TV and iOS or Android tablets with built-in Bluetooth LE. There’s more on this below and we’ve also explained the options and documented the minimum system requirements in our post on the best…
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