Is it time for a mid-season break?
Lately you haven’t had the ‘snap’ you had in the spring. Maybe you’re lacking the motivation to ride and it has gotten so bad that you haven’t even cleaned your chain (and people are starting [...]
Training Using Xert’s Adaptive Training Advisor – PEZ Cycling News
The Xert Adaptive Training Advisor (XATA) uses advanced analytics to not just model your current fitness, but to individually prescribe workouts guiding you towards a desired fitness and time. I relied on it for >90% [...]
The Xert Adaptive Planner: Adaptive Training Meets Fitness Planning
Our users were excited about the Xert's Adaptive Training Advisor (XATA) when we launched it in January 2017; it helped them choose the workouts they should do now to deliver them to their goal date for their [...]
Using Xert before, during and after a Training Camp
Each spring as the sun stays out a little longer and the looming race season closes in many of us are lured to warmer climes to pile on the miles at a training camp. At [...]
Sweet Spot, Threshold and Polarized Training … By the Numbers
Researchers, coaches and sports scientists continue to discuss and evaluate various traditional and alternative forms of training, sometimes quite vocally. There have been some that advocate for sweetspot/threshold training and others that advocate for polarized [...]
Beginner’s Guide: Improvement Rate
This post is intended to help new users of Xert understand what Improvement Rate is and how to use it. An important early step to getting the most out of Xert is to set your [...]
Understanding MPA™ – A Story
The ability to measure Maximal Power Available (MPA™), second-by-second provides insight into athletic performance that has never existed previously. To better conceptualize MPA and to better appreciate what makes it so unique and useful, we'll [...]
Xert’s Magic Setting – Track Your Daily Improvements
Xert was first to introduce the idea that you can obtain fitness information from regular activity data. We then introduced the idea that your Threshold Power could be calculated in real time, on-the-fly, as you [...]
Beginner’s Guide: Interpreting Your Data
This post walks a new user of Xert through how to interpret the data produced during each ride, run or activity. With the sophistication of training tools and training science building every year, this can be [...]
Beginner’s Guide: Adding Activities
This post walks a new user of Xert through how to add activities to your Xert account. This is an important first step because the more data Xert has to analyze, the more accurate it [...]