Zwift

Coachbox and Zwift: your session in Zwift's custom workouts

You export the session and drop it into Zwift yourself. It then waits under Custom workouts. The automatic connection is still being built.

What you put into Zwift yourself

  • Planned workouts

What this connection cannot do

  • This is a manual flow. You export the file and put it in Zwift's workouts folder yourself. Nothing travels on its own yet.
  • Only power-based cycling and running sessions can be exported. A session built around heart rate or pace does not work in Zwift.
  • Moving the file is something you do on a computer. Zwift on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV cannot take a file directly, so put it on your account from a computer first.
  • Finished rides do not come back into Coachbox by themselves. They arrive through whatever other connection your athlete uses.

Zwift is where a lot of winter volume actually happens. An indoor block falls apart if the session on screen is not the session you planned, so getting your own workout into Zwift matters.

Today you do that by hand. It is three steps and it takes about a minute.

How the session gets there

You export the workout from Coachbox as a Zwift file. Then you move that file into the workouts folder Zwift reads on your computer. Start Zwift and the session sits under Workouts, Custom, coachbox, with your intervals and power targets exactly as you built them.

Zwift only reads that folder when it starts up. So move the file first, then launch Zwift.

What does not work yet

Nothing travels on its own. You export, you move the file, you ride. Finished rides do not come back into Coachbox through Zwift either; they land in your calendar through whatever other connection your athlete uses.

We are building the automatic connection together with Zwift. Once it is live the session goes across by itself, on every device you ride with, and your rides come back the same way.

Two things to check first

The workout has to be power-based cycling or running. Zwift cannot run a session built around heart rate or pace, so the export option stays greyed out for those.

And the file has to reach your Zwift account from a computer. An iPad or an Apple TV cannot take one. Do it once from a computer and the session is available wherever you ride afterwards.

Riding a Tacx trainer? Your Coachbox workouts also reach the Tacx Training app through the Garmin connection, and that one does run by itself.

Connecting Zwift

  1. 1Open the workout in Coachbox and click Export in the Planned workout block. Choose the .zwo option and the file downloads.
  2. 2Move that file into your Zwift workouts folder: Documents, then Zwift, then Workouts, then the folder with your Zwift number.
  3. 3Start Zwift. The session is waiting under Workouts, Custom, coachbox.
Full step-by-step guide in the help centre

Questions about integrations

Why can I not export this workout?

Zwift only takes power-based cycling and running sessions. If you built the session around heart rate or pace, or it is another sport, the export option stays greyed out.

Where does the session appear in Zwift?

Under Workouts, Custom, coachbox. Zwift reads the folder when it starts, so launch it after you move the file, not before.

Can I do this on an iPad or an Apple TV?

Not directly. Those cannot take a file. Put the file on your Zwift account from a computer once, and it is there when you ride on any device.

Is an automatic connection coming?

Yes. We are building it together with Zwift. Once it is live your session travels by itself and your finished rides come back the same way.

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