PerfPRO©
is a software application for the athlete who uses a CompuTrainer™, Tacx™, PowerTap™, SRM™, iBike™, Velotron™ and many other power training devices.
It is a complete performance analysis tool that can produce complete statistical information on individual performances as well as overall progress. It can also produce
many easy-to-understand reports and graphs. PerfPRO helps analyze your strengths,
but more importantly it helps identify your weaknesses, which makes this software the perfect fit to your training needs.
There are many great benefits
to using a CompuTrainer™ (CT) and Velotron™. Anyone who owns a CT or has had
the opportunity to train with one knows it's leaps and bounds above the
standard trainer. From its ability to calculate SpinScan™ values (pedal stroke
efficiency) to providing extremely accurate wattage measurements, the feedback
you get from these devices put the user at an extreme advantage. What also
absolutely ROCKS about these trainers are the performance data files it
produces after each ride. Within these files, for every second you're riding
your CT the unit is providing roughly twenty lines of performance data (e.g.,
watts, SpinScan™, Heart Rate, etc). This allows for very accurate measurements
to give you the precision you need.
So here's the issue for CT users; the only way to really use your performance files
is by loading them up into the Coaching Software, which is provided with the
CompuTrainer unit. The Coaching Software is pretty good, but its intention was
to provide you with specific feedback, not track continuous progress throughout
a given timeframe. If you are relying on the CSV file that's updated after each ride then you're missing out on a lot of valuable data.
When you have an organized way of housing all of your
performances along with the ability to analyze specific sections of your ride
it becomes much easier to track your progress. The reports the 3D software creates are not enough
to provide data that shows you're improving or not.
By loading your performance/wattage files PerfPRO can display all of your rider information
(when present), complete performance statistics with Max/Min/Averages, maximum wattage thresholds at given
timeframes, heart rate zones, and course information. You can then create
additional reports from this data, produce graphs for watts, speed, heart rate,
SpinScan™, RPMs, and PulsePower™, as well as the course profile associated with
the performance. From there, athletes can also begin analyzing their
performance. For one example, PerfPRO can provide stats on your best
wattage output for 5-mins and give you the exact location within your
performance where that output occurred. You can also have it show stats from
minutes-15 to 35 or whatever time/distance you want. If you know your workout
had hard efforts during a certain timeframe then you can have PerfPRO
show the stats for that phase. It can even be setup to show interval sets with rest time inbetween!
PerfPRO isn't limited to just watts. The
software can provide the same feedback for SpinScan™, Heart Rate, PulsePower™,
and Speed. It can give just the information you're looking for and it's easy to
get to it.