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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]