It’s August and, if you’ve caught a case of CX fever, this is one of the most anticipated times of the entire season. Whether you’ve planned your season completely around CX, or whether you’re looking to extend your racing season after a full season of road/MTB, CX demands a specific [...]
When it comes to road cycling, pro cyclists like Peter Sagan, Greg Van Avermaet and Philippe Gilbert are often seen as the strongest riders in the peloton. They strike fear in everyone around them. They possess incredible power that they can unleash and make it difficult if not impossible for others [...]
A Completely New Way to Train Xert has ushered in revolutionary ideas and innovations in measuring fitness, how much power you have, which energy systems you use as well as highlighting how traditional methods miss key training variables like strain and focus. When we bring all these concepts to bear and use [...]
What Xert Tells Us About How to Train During the Off-Season As many of you will be training during the off-season to try and reach new highs, it would be interesting to examine what the data has told us on how to train over the winter, after analyzing hundreds of thousands of activities. [...]
Understanding Your Fitness Signature Your Fitness Signature is at the heart of everything Xert does. It represents your unique ability to generate power across various intensities and is constantly evolving based on your training. Xert uses your fitness signature in multiple ways to track and optimize your performance: Progression Tracking: [...]
With Maximal Power Available (MPA) Analysis in hand, Xert enables these four concepts to now be measured, tracked and used with precision as part of an endurance training regime. Each of these are built on the foundation of MPA and your fitness signature: Stress being the work you perform measured against your [...]
Fitness Testing: A New Approach For many athletes, fitness testing is a dreaded part of their training routine. The questions loom large: “Am I improving?” or “Do I need to change my workout targets?” Fitness tests can often be mentally and physically taxing, and finding an accurate way to estimate [...]
Workout Design Interval training is a staple of many athletes’ training regimens, but designing the right workout can often feel like a mix of science and art. Coaches must consider a range of factors—fitness level, fatigue, and motivation—while relying on experience and intuition to craft effective sessions. However, with the [...]
What is Maximal Power Available? Maximal Power Available (MPA™) is a measurement of the maximal power that can be produced by an athlete for a given exercise, factoring in fatigue. Simply, MPA establishes at every given instant, exactly how much power you have. It is a concept that is [...]
A Brief History of Our Research - Xert and Bioshift Many of you are likely wondering: "How do Xert and Bioshift relate? They seem so different." To answer that question, we turn to another seemingly disparate topic: Heart-rate data and analysis. About four years ago, our research began by examining [...]