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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The mere mention of cyclocross can make some rider’s heart race with excitement. Usually riders who love a little mud. Or to suffer. Or ideally both! Because CX differs from what many of us do - or train to do - the rest of the year, questions about the specific [...]
Everyone can agree that achieving new personal records out on the road is one of the things that makes cycling so much fun. Seeing all the hard work you've put into improving and then to see it come together when you get your best time on your favourite stretch of [...]
The Xert Adaptive Training Advisor (XATA) uses advanced analytics to not just model your current fitness, but to individually prescribe workouts guiding you towards a desired fitness and time. I relied on it for >90% of my training this winter leading up to April’s gravel season. Read the whole story [...]
Each spring as the sun stays out a little longer and the looming race season closes in many of us are lured to warmer climes to pile on the miles at a training camp. At Xert we're no different; we just got back from a great week in beautiful Brevard, [...]
The ability to measure Maximal Power Available (MPA™), second-by-second provides insight into athletic performance that has never existed previously. To better conceptualize MPA and to better appreciate what makes it so unique and useful, we'll explain it in very simple terms. We're going to use a story of you going [...]