Power Analysis and Smart Training All In One App The new Xert Mobile app for iOS closes the gap between you and the athlete you wish to become. It has been completely redesigned with an Activity Dashboard, Adaptive Training Advisor and a powerful new Workout Player user interface. Now you [...]
Introduction In this article, we will provide an overview of metabolic pathways and how these pathways affect your riding and racing. Through these metabolic pathways, the body converts stored chemical potential energy from food, into mechanical energy used to power our bikes or our runs. How this energy is converted [...]
Training isn't easy, but choosing the right 'training plan' is even harder. Here are 5 rules you’ve probably broken, and what you can do now to be better next season. #1 Don’t plan with hours, plan with Strain Intuitively, we all know that every hour [...]
Who doesn’t love Titanium I was hit by an SUV on March 24, 2018, towards the end of a 6.5 hour training ride with a friend. The crash resulted in several injuries including a badly broken left hip. I was operated on several hours later and [...]
Cycling power meters have re-entered the spotlight with the ASO's (the organization behind races like the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix, and the Tour of California) Christian Prudhomme announcing their desire to ban the use of power meters at the Tour. "We reassert our desire to see the end of power [...]
We recently launched a number of new features and improvements...have a look below for a peek at some of the changes and to find out more. 1. Load Your Favourite Xert Workouts into Zwift Export. Upload. Ride...It's that easy. How To Load Xert Workouts Into Zwift 2. Improved [...]
Many of us track our power numbers with an interest in achieving max power output and hitting the #BOOM of a breakthrough effort. Tracking these max efforts is indeed important, and it is true that ultimately we are aiming to get Peak Power (PP), High Intensity Energy (HIE), or Threshold [...]
When we look outside to find rain, snow, or traffic-choked roads, many of us head indoors for exercise. The increasing popularity of software like Zwift makes riding your trainer, or running on a treadmill, much more enjoyable. Whereas in the past you'd be doing boring, monotonous intervals on the trainer, [...]
Photo: Steve Morris We were lucky enough to race on the 2018 Canadian National Cyclocross Championships course during a recent club race - and course test - put on by the well organized Peterborough Cycling Club in late September. As expected, we captured all the power data. Here [...]
By Chris Bennett As I lay in the hospital after four hours of facial reconstruction surgery following a crash in the Tour Aotearoa I could only think how inconvenient this was given that in four months I would be starting the biggest bikepacking adventure of my life: [...]