Advanced Data Analysis with Xert New ideas and concepts continue to come to the forefront on how to apply Xert's revolutionary concepts. Xert's methods to analyze power data and discover new insights into fitness and performance have never existed before. In this blog post, we're going to dive into ways you can learn more about [...]
Hardness as a New Athletic Measurement When we introduced Smart Workouts, we introduced a completely new way to train. Rather than training at a given intensity, smart workouts have you training at a given level of strain. What this means is that smart workouts never get too hard. They are [...]
A Completely New Way to Train Xert has ushered in revolutionary ideas and innovations in measuring fitness, how much power you have, which energy systems you use as well as highlighting how traditional methods miss key training variables like strain and focus. When we bring all these concepts to bear and use [...]
What Xert Tells Us About How to Train During the Off-Season As many of you will be training during the off-season to try and reach new highs, it would be interesting to examine what the data has told us on how to train over the winter, after analyzing hundreds of thousands of activities. [...]
The Next Generation in Impulse Response Modeling With our success helping athletes answer the question: "What's my fitness?", we set our sights on answering the question "What will my fitness be?". Answering this question is difficult, since it requires a prediction of what is going to happen to your fitness based [...]
From Zones to Strain & Focus Training zones have been a long-standing method of prescribing training. Whether they are based on heart rate or power, they are the staple of many training programs. When used for training with power, training zones are often defined relative to your Functional Threshold Power [...]
Understanding Fitness Signatures Your fitness signature and how it changes over time, is the foundation of Xert. Xert uses your fitness signature data in a variety of ways: Tracks how it changes over time. This is referred to as your Progression. It is used to derive your Athlete Type fitness, such as [...]
Fitness Testing Most athletes dread test days. These are the days in your training plan where you test your fitness to see where you stand: "Am I improving?", "Do I need to change to workout targets?". They are dreaded because they require a lot of motivation. Your FTP can fluctuate 30-40 [...]
Dissecting Power Data With the knowledge of MPA and fitness signatures in hand, we can now start to examine how power is generated. That is, we can look to determine to what degree your individual fitness signature parameters impact your power. When examining a power-duration relationship, an athlete's peak power contributes [...]
Workout Design Assigning workouts, for many, is considered an art more than a science. Given the number of variables that need to be accounted for, coaches and sports scientists combine scientific research, home-grown tools, coaching systems, and software in deciding on what workout to prescribe for an athlete at a [...]