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% of my training this winter leading up to April’s gravel season. Read the whole story [...]
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 Xert we're no different; we just got back from a great week in beautiful Brevard, [...]
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 training. For some athletes, sweetspot training (SST) is too hard, requiring too much concentration whereas [...]
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 [...]
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 explain it in very simple terms. We're going to use a story of you going [...]
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 [...]
Are you looking for a Training Plan, perhaps something with a set of predefined workouts on given days-of-the-week? Did you know that you don't need a Training Plan to improve and achieve the best fitness you can achieve?Xert's Adaptive Training Advisor replaces your predefined, rigid Training Plan with a flexible, [...]
Xert's Focus Duration is a Powerful Training Concept We often get the question "What is Focus Duration?" It's a very new concept and only available in Xert but we are convinced that once you understand its meaning it will change the way you think about training, forever. Recap First, a [...]