This guide will help you better understand the various settings that go into deciding on what fitness will you have on race day (or on the day you're looking to reach your achievement). The settings affect how you'll need to train and what will be needed to achieve the [...]
Introducing Race AI Everyone is familiar with training plans. They generally give you workouts with perhaps the goal of preparing you for a race or maybe just to "get fit". How fit you will be at the end of the training plan is a bit of an unknown. Will you [...]
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 [...]
Xert's Multi-Dimensional Performance and Training Model About 7 years ago, we were the first to introduce a multi-dimensional Impulse-Response Model. We brought in Xert Strain Score, i.e. XSS and the 3 dimensional XPMC. Since then, Xert has been helping athletes quantify their training in unique and powerful ways. Over the [...]
An Introduction to Xert Relative Power A Bit of Background on Power-to-Weight Ratio For anyone that's ever watched a professional cycling race or raced in Category-based races, you're likely to be familiar with power-to-weight ratio or watts per kilogram (W/kg): take your power output and divide it by your weight [...]
Analyze Group Rides and Race Data From Other Riders Together With Yours Introducing Group Ride Data Analytics with Flyby. This new feature from Xert Breakthrough Training allows athletes, coaches and team directors to analyze team data all on one screen. Xert now detects when an activity was performed with other [...]
We first introduced the idea that workouts can be designed using methods that calculate fatigue versus being based on zones and %FTP. Xert's smart workouts enable athletes to perform workouts that are highly individualized to their specific capabilities, across all intensities from easy pedaling to sprinting. In addition, workouts [...]
The latest changes to Xert allow coaches to manage their athlete's training and track their fitness with greater ease and flexibility. Coaching your athletes with Xert presents a number of unique and valuable features that enable you to enhance the services you provide to your clients. Here we'll describe some [...]
Xert can help you coach yourself to reach new limits, and it can also be an invaluable tool for coaches seeking better tools to help coach others to achieve more. If you're a coach, below is a quick guide to help you setup & manage your coaching community in Xert. [...]
Nearly all athletes that have used a structured training plan will have reached a point in their training where they couldn't complete a workout. Most think that somehow they weren't trying hard enough and that they need to toughen up if they expect to reach their goal. [...]