New to Xert? Start training smarter with Xert Xert is an adaptive training platform that helps you understand your fitness, plan and choose the right training you need to do, and review how every ride contributes to your progress. Instead of relying on one FTP number or a fixed calendar [...]
Manage all your training activity in one place With new advanced training systems, athletes have greater flexibility in deciding how they wish to train. Gone are the days of sitting on your trainer during the off-season doing workout after workout. Athletes are now able to incorporate different types of training [...]
Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions when it comes to doing workouts: Why am I doing this particular workout? Why do I need to do these intensities and these durations? Am I hitting the workout interval targets sufficiently well and if not do I stop or keep [...]
Xert's Forecast AI Looks Into the Future to Predict the Training You Will Need In recent years, adaptive training has grown in prominence within training circles. Static training plans have become a thing of the past. Xert's Adaptive Training Advisor was an early adaptive training platform, providing athletes day-to-day training [...]
Cycling is a fantastic way to improve cardiovascular health, build endurance, and strengthen muscles. Whether you're a casual rider or a seasoned cyclist, the pursuit of improved fitness is a constant endeavor. For many athletes, the winter months provide a time for athletes to follow a methodological, structured training [...]
Introduction If you’ve trained for any amount of time, you have likely experienced some interruption to your training routine - whether that's a family vacation, an unforeseen business trip, or a unexpected injury, or just taking some downtime after a long riding season. While being away from your bike [...]
Introduction With the creation of the Adaptive Training Advisor, Xert has radically changed the way in which we train & prepare for events. Rather than prescribing workouts weeks & months in advance, Xert takes a day-to-day approach for workout recommendations. Xert’s recommendations are based on a variety of factors [...]
In addition to making cool-looking Xert Workout Reports, research has shown that micro-intervals are potent training stimuli. In this blog post, we will dig in a little more to understand exactly why those micro-intervals can be so beneficial to your cycling fitness. We will also look at Xert’s analysis [...]
What is a Fitness Breakthrough (BT)? Many software training platforms use some method to track your fitness progression throughout the course of a training program or season. Typically, these require some form of test - whether a FTP test, ramp test, or other type of testing. With Xert, we can [...]
Introduction In a previous post, we looked at how the body responds to the demands of cycling by tight regulation of metabolic pathways: aerobic respiration, anaerobic glycolysis, and phosphocreatine. In this article, we're going to expand on that thought and show how we can manipulate our training to enhance our [...]