Train smarter in winter: With ROUVY on real routes and with real progress

Winter interrupts continuity... and your performance suffers as a result

Germany's winter months are long, cold and often wet for cyclists. It's dark on the way to work, the cycle paths are icy and storms at the weekend make it difficult to carry out good training sessions. The result is a lack of interval training, less time on the bike and then a necessary rebuild of fitness in the spring that simply takes too long. You need a way to keep your training structured while minimising the risk of accidents - without losing the feeling and passion for real cycling.

With ROUVY, indoor training feels like outdoor riding - and it works

ROUVY's indoor cycling app is designed for cyclists who are passionate about real roads and real progress. High-quality videos of real routes are synchronised with your smart trainer so that the resistance matches the profile of the landscape - hairpin bends, long climbs and 10% ramps feel exactly as they should. You ride normally: at your appropriate pace, you shift gears, you sprint and you feed yourself just as you would when riding outside. The result is authenticity and credibility: a training session that "feels" right for your legs and is "reflected" correctly in your data.

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Why performance-orientated cyclists choose ROUVY

• Real routes, real gradients: A huge collection of video-realistic routes from Mallorca to the Stelvio Pass, where the resistance is precisely adapted to the metres in altitude.
• Structured workouts on real terrain: Complete FTP blocks, VO₂ intervals or speed increases underpinned by real terrain profiles.
• Data you can trust: Power, cadence, heart rate and altitude are tracked precisely - ideal for analysing and long-term progress.
• Seamlessly integrated planning: The app can be synchronised with TrainingPeaks, Garmin and other training apps in terms of plans, goals and evaluation of a ride.

Mallorca, the Alps, Grand Tours: your personal training camp - at home

What better way to escape the winter blues than by riding the popular summer routes, such as along the sunny coast of Mallorca? With ROUVY, you can tackle legendary climbs such as Sa Calobra and Puig Major or train on the hilly coastal roads at the appropriate speed before your planned journey there. Do you want to prepare for the Alps? Then give it your all on the steady climbs of Stelvio Pass or Großglockner.

Do you prefer the intensity of the Grand Tours or the spring classics? Then take advantage of the short, crisp climbs on stage routes of the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France or Vuelta a Espana or ride the routes of the Flemish or Ardennes Classics to train your anaerobic performance. Whether you are working on your strength or endurance, you train with a specific goal on each route - so your indoor training immediately improves your outdoor performance.

Workout mode: precision meets realism

Indoor training works best when the goals are precise and repetitions are possible. With the Workout mode from ROUVY, you can complete structured training sessions on your favourite real routes. For example:

• FTP/Threshold: 2×20 or 3×16 minutes on climbs with a gradient of 5-7% to internalise rhythm and nutrition.
• VO₂-Max: 5×3 minutes or 30/30s on challenging terrain to improve aerobic performance and interval runs.
• Sweet spot/tempo: Longer blocks on hilly routes to increase your CTL without overloading your legs.
• Endurance: Ride easy kilometres in a landscape that relaxes you and allows a steady cadence.

There is also a wide range of training plans with many different specific goals, so there is something suitable for cyclists of all levels. They have been put together by experts, offer targeted consistency and reliability and fit perfectly into your weekly schedule.

Plans, platforms and progress

ROUVY synchronises seamlessly with your favourite third-party training apps so that you always have all your data to hand.

• TrainingPeaks: Transfer your weekly plan to ROUVY, complete your indoor training and keep your trainer up to date.
• Garmin: Synchronise your workouts or analyse your data after the ride in your Garmin ecosystem.
• Clarity after the journey: Clean performance files mean clearer trends - look at how your FTP improves, how your time to exhaustion (your TTE) increases and how your VO₂ tolerance increases over the course of the block.

You can also track your progress in the ROUVY Companion app to get even more control and data about your rides.

Professional expertise: Ride and train like the best

ROUVY works together with top organisations such as Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Lidl-Trek, IRONMAN and Life Time Events. Not only will you ride like the pros on WorldTour stages, official IRONMAN routes and world-class gravel routes, but you can also train like the pros. You'll also get expert advice, background knowledge and structured sessions inspired by world-class methods: progressive threshold blocks, VO₂ climbing intervals, race-specific 'over-under' intervals and route exploration workouts. Conquer a WorldTour-style climb, take an exploratory ride on an IRONMAN bike course to build muscle memory and confidence for race day, or hone your off-road skills for long days on the gravel bike.

Explore thousands of real routes: Turn your training into a journey

The choice brings fulfilment. ROUVY's constantly growing collection of routes includes Thousands of realistic routes throughout Europe and beyond - with exclusively selected collections for the Alps, Mallorca, the Dolomites, the Black Forest, Flanders, the Pyrenees as well as for North and South America, Asia and Australia. Choose according to distance, altitude metres, country and/or riding time. Combine routes into mini-tours (e.g. a Mallorca week: Sa Calobra, Coll de Soller, Cap de Formentor, Andratx) or simply ride at your own pace across entire continents. It's not just escapism; it's Exploration with a goalbecause each route can be selected to suit your training programme, which makes the A thirst for adventure keeps you alive while you build up your fitness.

Weekly activities provide variety and keep you going - with rides, races and challenges

Motivation thrives on rhythm. ROUVY's weekly plan gives you good reasons to get on your bike every day: Group trips as joint endurance training, Race to increase the intensity and alternating Challenges for specific goals (such as conquering mountains, riding a certain number of hours, earning badges). Evening and weekend slots fit into a training week; choose the activity that suits your plan: Tempo in a group, short and crisp race sessions during the week or a longer challenge route on Sunday.
And sometimes the start list also takes on star character. Keep an eye out for Trips with very special guestswhere athletes from partners such as Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Lidl-Trek, IRONMAN or one of the global ROUVY ambassadors. These 'special guest' participations allow you to ride on legendary routes ride together with your cycling idolsto keep up with their pace and get practical tips directly from the best. It's a special mix of inspiration and background knowledge - and the perfect preparation for the next season.

Sensing reality: Why realism delivers better results

Indoor training should feel like cycling, not like a pixelated simulation. You want to ride on roads that really excite you, climb mountains that are challenging and see landscapes that look the same on your screen in terms of light and texture as they do outside. That's the ROUVY difference: real videos of real routes, paired with precise control of the gradient via your smart trainer. When the ramp reaches 10%, your legs learn to stay in the flow; when the climb gets easier, you recover just like you would outside. When the routes are more real and the feeling is more realthen the training is more real. And this combination delivers real benefits - more customised pacing, better food habits, smoother cadence choices and performance gains that show up as soon as you get back on the road.

A winter that not only maintains fitness, but also builds it up

Consistency is everything. With the unpredictability of the weather removed, you can schedule 8-12 weeks of training in a row without missing important training sessions. The real routes keep you motivated; the structured goals ensure adaptation. Once spring arrives, you don't have to worry about building up your form again, you can proactively decide which event you want to prepare for.

Your perfect training partner

ROUVY helps you maintain your fitness throughout the winter, fine-tune your performance before you travel so you can hit Mallorca or the Alps with confidence. It's indoor time that pays off outdoors - because the routes are real and the training is precise.

You'll be ready to go in 10 minutes

• Download the app, create a ROUVY account and connect your smart trainer and the sensors.
• Choose a route (or a workout), select "Start" and the trainer's resistance control (and your legs) will take care of the rest.
• Your ride is automatically synchronised and saved - and you can choose a new adventure ride.

Pro Tip: It's best to start with a familiar route from your neighbourhood to get a feel for riding and then switch to a legendary climb to experience the difference. Shift gears as you would in reality and make sure you maintain a steady cadence. Everything else will be determined by the route profile.

Are you ready to use winter to your advantage?

Experience the difference for yourself. Explore real routes, follow your training plan and watch your training data change. Try ROUVY and start building for next season today.

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