Hands down my favorite workout. Great structure and great tunes. When that jam kicks in and the sprints begin…it’s the perfect combination of pain and satisfaction.
+1 for Local Hero. Huge Downward Spiral fan as well. they are all really great.
Fight Club, Angels, and A Very Dark Place have always been my go to when I’m needing about 60 minutes for a work out. ISLAGIATT is great if you need a longer trainer ride. Killer workout!
The 2nd video I bought and one of my favorites when I want a ride over 75 minutes. Otherwise my other favorite is The Hunted. However, I don’t own the full set.
Fight Club, Angels, and A Very Dark Place have always been my go to when I’m needing about 60 minutes for a work out. ISLAGIATT is great if you need a longer trainer ride. Killer workout!
This for me too. Honestly with my FTP set correctly I definitely suffer.
Yup my favorite as well.
I like Fight Club and The Rookie
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am i the only one who struggles sometimes with the intro power requirements? I swear it takes me a few minutes to go to 150 watts, the old pins hate going straight to 150 watts as soon as i hop on the bike
You are not alone…I always start the warmup a few minutes before iI start the video to get a warm up for the warm up!
rich
You are not alone…I always start the warmup a few minutes before iI start the video to get a warm up for the warm up!
rich
Yep, same here. I ride early in the morning and I have to spin for 10 minutes before I can jump into any Sufferfest video. Maybe it’s because I am in M40-44…
Fight Club, Angels, and A Very Dark Place have always been my go to when I’m needing about 60 minutes for a work out. ISLAGIATT is great if you need a longer trainer ride. Killer workout!
JT, I doff my hat to you for getting through the 2 hours of ISLAGIATT at the set levels… For me, I just have to knock off 10% for the first hour or so and then maybe add a bit to 95% for the last hour, but at 100%, I’m GONE…
same as Hell Hath No Fury… that’s a 90-95% session right there, but the last 6 min time trial to the end at 100% is pure gold.
The Rookie with basically 3 x 10 min or road racing efforts is my go to session at the moment, with 9 Hammers making an occasional appearance.
what am I saying, they’re all great.
Local hero seems to be on the easy side of the sufferfests.
for example nine hammers and long scream are much harder when done with same scaling of sufferscale to watts.
Oh I don’t ride 100% of FTP. I try and ride 92-95% for those tt efforts. Basically I try not to be a moron 
I leave mine set 100% and just go with it. The warm ups are usually interesting for me. I start them wondering if I’m going to get through the workout, given I feel like I’m struggling to maintain 170ish watts. But by about 20 minutes in, I’m suffering just fine… My FTP is a meager 250w, but I’ve only been training with power for about a year, and only riding for a year and a half.
I have 12 of the vids. My top ones in order of usage are: Angels 2015, Wretched, Nine Hammers and The Hunted. Though with it getting colder and less daylight, I think Blender and ISLAGIATT will probably start working into the once a week rotation again.
I’ve started to download Local Hero several times, and then didn’t. Since you guys like it, maybe I’ll give it a shot.
I bought all of them last year when our team still received a 50% off discount… best $90 I ever spent!
I’m partial to The Rookie as I enjoy the story… which, I know, is like watching porn for the plot. My other favorites are probably The Hunted, Local Hero, HHNF, and ISLAGIATT
Local hero seems to be on the easy side of the sufferfests.
IF for Local Hero 0.93. Nine Hammers is 0.91.
Violator for the win at 1.06. Revolver is 1.07 but is less than 60 minutes.
HHNF (pre 2013 or whenever they revised it) has my nomination for hardest sufferfest video. I’ve never really managed to have a good second 20 minute effort. As far as I remember its the only sufferfest that trainerroad has a warning beforehand.
Personally I like blender and 9 hammers.
TR description of HHNF (IF 0.93???)
This is a bread and butter 2x20 workout with footage from the UCI Women’s World Cup courtesy of TheSufferFest.com. This is a VERY hard workout. Don’t be afraid to lower the intensity if you’re not interested in puking.
HHNF (pre 2013 or whenever they revised it) has my nomination for hardest sufferfest video. I’ve never really managed to have a good second 20 minute effort. As far as I remember its the only sufferfest that trainerroad has a warning beforehand.
Personally I like blender and 9 hammers.
You ain’t kidding. HHNF is a beast of a workout…I did The Rookie today, and 9 Hammers on Monday. I also like Angels, Giatt, and Blender. They’re all good, though…Tough as heck all of them.
I’m about to restart my trainerroad membership and those videos, combined with TR, show now mercy…
I’m pretty new to Sufferfest and have enjoyed them so far but how do you know how hard to go when they set their levels. Like, if they say 7/10, do you do 70% FTP?