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 [...]
Loes Adegeest Wins the 2022 UCI eSports Women's World Championships On February 26th, 2022, athletes from around the world competed in the UCI eSports World Championships. It was the second edition of the event and in the women's race, former World Champion and professional rider Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (who also [...]
"I got a fakethrough! What's happening?" Xerters are intimately familiar with near breakthroughs or what we often call fakethroughs. In this blog post we're going to step through the principles of how this aspect of Xert works in helping you discover how your fitness is changing - ride to ride [...]
Winning Comes in Many Forms After seeing Xert grow over the past 2.5 years from a few keen and forward-thinking users to now thousands of athletes from all across the globe, I've started to learn what they all share in common: they are simply looking to understand how to reach [...]
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 [...]