Wahoo Bolt Power Zones

trswem · December 26, 2018, 6:22am

I did some googling and couldn’t find anything. Does anyone know if you can rename Wahoos power zone names? I would like it to correlate with what we’re using for TR.

Thanks!

Captain_Doughnutman · December 26, 2018, 6:31am

You cannot relabel the Wahoo zone, but if you go with 5 zones, they are almost all the same as what TR uses:

miro.rides.bikes · December 3, 2020, 8:20pm

Hey I also have a similar question.
I recently purchased a Wahoo Elmnt Roam and would like to match the Trainerroad Zones to the settings of my Wahoo.

Is there a simpler way to auto calculate the zones in the wahoo app? The 7 Zone settings of Wahoo doesn’t seem to correlate to the zones as by Dr. Andrew Coggan. I now manually entered the values for the 7 zones as I have them in TrainerRoad in the Wahoo Companion app, what is annoying is that the names/categories do not match at all. And it makes updating my FTP on the device quite complicated. Anyone got some tipps?

rentagreement · December 13, 2020, 12:30pm

Same question here, would this be the right setup on my wahoo app?

bbarrera · December 13, 2020, 4:12pm

Those are CTS zones.

Does the Wahoo companion app allow you to manually set zones as % FTP?

You want something like this (Garmin app):

rentagreement · December 13, 2020, 4:28pm

No, it does only allow to enter the values manually, which I calculated above based on the TR zones and their percentage or FTP.

The naming is just completely different and actually confusing

bbarrera · December 13, 2020, 4:30pm

Some context on zone names, if you are interested:

https://www.strava.com/training-plans/cycling-training-glossary

rentagreement · December 13, 2020, 4:32pm

Thank you. So eventually TRs naming is different from the norm, right? So Sweet Spot at TR is nothing else than Steady State etc?

bbarrera · December 13, 2020, 4:34pm

TrainerRoad uses Coggan classic level names for the zones. That is standard terminology.

I don’t know why Wahoo uses CTS terminology. Perhaps CTS vs Coggan is a setting? I bought a Wahoo years ago and returned it. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

miro.rides.bikes · December 18, 2020, 9:09pm

That was was in the end my solution too. I sold my wahoo and decided to stick to my Garmin for a bit longer. I wanted to give Wahoo a chance since they have quite a few good features and my Garmin had made me angry a few times in the past but after all it made me realise, that my Garmin was not that bad after all. The fact that I cannot manually adjust power zones, that I cannot create multiple bike profiles and the button stiffness were some basic requirements which were not really met by the device.