ErgVideo comes packed with free training plans designed by qualified coaches, including Hunter Allen, Scott Moninger, and Paul Smeulders. Our traditional plans start with a library of ErgVideos. Our coaches designed custom sessions from the videos and scheduled them into progressive training sequences for different riders with riding goals. Built-into the plans are several daily options for different ErgVideos but equivalent training sessions. With your ErgVideo subscription and access to all videos, you can modify these plans to provide nearly infinite variety.
Our "new-style" plans work the other way around. We start with a progressive training sequence of free-mode workouts (so you can do a whole plan, using ErgVideo free mode, completely for free!). From there each workout is mapped to several different ErgVideo sessions. With your subscription to access all ErgVideo titles, you could do a whole 16 or 20 week plan and never ride the same session twice!
This page has instructional videos on how to use our plans, and how to configure them to select your daily workout.
On Feb 13, 2025, our streaming service partner made a change that breaks ErgVideo streaming playback in the desktop application. It came as an unannounced surprise.
The ErgVideo application has been out of development for several years and supported only for current subscribers. Costs to update and further maintain the application and web services infrastructure now exceed revenues.
As such, we have:
Refunded any subscription that was affected by an outage Feb 13. That is, any subscription that renewed after Jan 13, 2025.
Terminated all recurring monthly subscriptions as of today, Feb 17, 2025. You will see no new charges.
Further, on May 31, 2025, we will:
Remove all web services and the website. This means that the free ErgVideo desktop software will stop working on that date.
Be assured that these are not temporary measures while the outage exists. We are no longer investigating a fix. It is truly the end of the ErgVideo application, web services, and support.
If you purchased a legacy video license (DVD or one-time download), you will still be able to playback videos in any desktop player like Windows "Films and TV" app, or "Windows Media Player"**. What won't work (after May 31) is the desktop software ("ErgVideo 6.009") that controlled your trainer with its own synchronized video player. Since our first release in 2007, we've always provided, maintained, and supported the desktop software for free.
Thank you for your business and understanding,
Paul Smeulders
ErgVideo Inc.
** If you did a standard install, the video files are in .wmv format and located in subfolders of C:\Users\Public\Videos\ErgVideo. Each subfolder is named by the title of the video.
...and note that the "traditional training plan" video talks about needing some limited-number of ErgVideos to do the plans. With your subscription, you'll have access to all of the videos! Here's a shorter video on the traditional plans, assuming you are a subscription user.
Here's a new seminar-style video that introduces the new training plans and describes how the free plans and free sessions map to ErgVideos using the TOE workouts scan. It contrasts the traditional ErgVideo plans with the new ones, and show how you make use of your ErgVideo library even when using the new free-mode plans.
Paul discusses "if you have the video in your library..." in this video. Well, now with your subscription, of course you do, you have them all!