MPA Analysis is a tool to help you determine your fitness at the time of the activity. This is a powerful concept and unique to Xert. To perform MPA Analysis on an activity, open the Activity Details - MPA tab for the activity. On that page you have a chart showing [...]
If you’re seeing more than one of the same activity in Activities > Dashboard or Table, it could be due to one of several reasons: Time zone discrepancies between the source of your activity file and your Xert account; Double syncing i.e. you're syncing your Xert account with both Strava [...]
You can instruct Xert to go through all your activities, re-extract fitness signatures, look for fitness breakthroughs, and recalculate MPA, strain, XSS and XEP for each activity. This is like an account "reset" as it throws out all previous calculations and recalculates them all over. Use this to correct errors [...]
The Xert Remote Player is a web-based tool that allows you, your friends and even your coach to view your workout live as you're doing it. It's composed of three elements that can be viewed all at once, separated, resized, and even overlaid on top of other views (like Zwift) [...]
Adding Manual Activities Adding manual activities to your activity history is easy! In this post, we will show you how to add manual activities to your account. This can be helpful in situations where your power meter died or for rides on bikes without power meters. To start, navigate to [...]
During the initial account setup process you were asked to select what kind of Athlete you were from the range in the image above. Although the names of the categories relate to road cycling, in principle they apply to nearly any sport. Some sports require high power over short durations [...]
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 Improvement Rate (IR). Don’t worry if you don’t know what it should be! You can [...]
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 ride. But in the past couple of months or so, a new feature was quietly [...]
This post will help a new Xerter interpret their power data from each ride, run or activity. This can be a daunting task, given the constant increases in sophistication of training tools and new developments from training science every year. But it doesn't need to be! Xert exists to [...]
This guide will walk you through how to add activities to your Xert account, and how to manage your settings to ensure you're getting, and sharing, the data you'd like. Skip ahead to: Sync with Strava Sync with Garmin Connect Import files from TrainingPeaks Manually Uploading your Activity [...]