This was from Monday using my Wahoo Kickr (soon to be gifted to my son ), they yellow power line is smoooooooooth as glass in ERG mode on that unlike the helter skelter line from my Wattbike, also in ERG mode.
Stick your trainer in Resistance mode and pedal as smoothly as you can at 200 watts (or whatever) for 5 minutes. Look at that power trace. See the variation.
Now. Is it possible for you to produce a smoother trace? Possibly. Have another go. Any better? Try again. And again. And again.
After half a dozen rounds youāll reach peak smoothness.
It is physically impossible for you to produce a smoother power trace, and if you can do so in Erg mode itās a lie, because your legs control the trainer, not the other way round.
Iām not going to say that Iām extra smooth ( Iāll leave that to John Smith) but I would say the tip that worked for me was trying to keep my cadence very steady. So pick a cadence and stick as closely as you can to that, and I reckon your power should settle down and become smooth.
So as you move through a workout and the blue bars change the resistance, thereās a few seconds as it adapts and then smooths out again.
Maybe that explains why the really short intervals are so difficult to execute. But that said, a really short interval outdoors is pretty difficult too.