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 [...]
What is Progressive Overload? If you've fallen off the training plan wagon or not sure if you're making the progress you had hoped to make, you can apply the principles of progressive overload to pick things up from where they are now to move you forward. Xert uses these principles [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Xert's Training Status provides a simplified way to visualize an athlete's current Training Load and Recovery Load. The number of stars indicate the total amount of Training Load an athlete has accumulated. The colour of the athlete's stars is determined by their form (e.g. Training Load - Recovery Load) and [...]