REAL Strava Secrets: Get More From Strava // Free and Subscriber Features!

There's always something to learn about Strava! This video covers one of the most popular (yet not very well known) kudos tricks, a number of very useful Strava Labs features, ActivityFix, and how to 'Ghost' yourself for some on-the-fly privacy during an activity. 

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Video Index:
0:00 Intro
0:17 SEVEN Tips/Tricks/Secrets Overview 
1:01 Kudos Secret Shake 
1:59 Kudos Rate Limits 
2:37 Project Kodos 
5:28 Global Heatmaps
7:45 FlyOver comes to IOS
8:58 ActivityFIX 
12:28 Ghosting Yourself (Privacy Tip!) 
16:21 Wrap Up 

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#Strava​ #Cycling​ #GPS

[WowRixter]

I've lost count of how many videos this month for Lama but it must be a record. Kudos 👍🏻 and Merry Christmas 🎄

[jamesengelsma]

Wow this channel has been in overdrive lately! Appreciate all the content!

[RaiAlsemgeest]

I can spend hours in global heatmaps. Open water swims are fascinating. Merry Christmas!

[appleseeds]

Thank you!! I’ve wanted a way to give kudos to a whole group and had no idea this already existed. That really needs to be a more visible feature.

[TomSchillemans]

Thanks s much for activity fix!
This changed everything for me!

When Zwifting, I always need to change my bike used to the one i use for indoor cycling, no more!
And I often make shorter walks to close out my Apple Fitness rings and I don't want to broadcast them. Normally I just don't import them in Strava but now I can use the Mute feature!

Thanks a lot!

[stephencharles]

Hahaha. This ghosting option is really a 'naughty boys charter' for your secret stop offs en route !!

[chrisridesbicycles]

Thanks, very useful stuff. The main feature I am still missing is the „auto create a route with that many km“ on the web version and also being able to enter the number of km my self.

[terryforsythe]

Thanks Shane, added a Christmas jersey and did my first ride wearing it, today. Merry Christmas and keep up the great Zwift work. It’s great help.

[ca]

Shane, this was VERY useful, thank you!

[paulallen]

Thank you for reminding me about the time option on the analysis charts. I was wanting a method to find places where I've stopped.

[servusgunter]

Great work Shane, super nice-to-have infos👌

[davidweisz]

I don’t know how it could be done, but some direction indication in heatmaps would be super useful. For example in the same way you mentioned no heat on a busy road, sometimes people only use a road in one direction (like taking a busy road downhill but never uphill). I ran across this recently putting together the heatmap but asking a local friend to confirm. Thanks for the great tips!

[gerbryf]

Excellent stuff Shane, thanks for sharing..

[erikmmartens]

Ghosting yourself is something I have used before. But it also happens in other scenarios, for example if you take a ferry. On Wahoo and Apple Watching simply pausing the activity is enough. Strava will just draw a straight line between the last point before and the first point after the pause. So if you really want to clear out a friends home, you ride back to where you paused and resume from there, making it look like you actually paused there. I believe the only thing to see in the data could be your heart rate potentially having gone down (but that’s really hard to see and could for a many other reasons). The only other thing to see can be your total time spent on a segment that indicates you have paused, in case there is one on the path you deviate from and then rejoin while the activity is paused. But again, you could have actually paused legitimately for many other reasons (as it usually happens at different places during the ride), so nobody can tell that was because of being close to your friend’s house.

[stephenprice]

Wow a few things that are good to know. Thanks for all the great videos this year. Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻

[wattswheelhouse]

Activity fix is fantastic! What a cool service.

[michaelkay]

Hi Shane, great content as always and appreciated. Flyover is up and running.

[mvp_kryptonite]

Shane you legend! Excellent video. How does Strava not promote this stuff themselves is beyond me. Keep em coming

[jonathanzappala]

When I had a Microsoft band, you couldn’t ghost yourself, Strava counted all the movement until you hit save. That came in handy a few times though if I forgot to hit restart.

[banderoguitar]

This is a million times better and more useful than the GCN one...