"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 [...]
Once you have set up your Xert running account, this guide will walk (run!) you through how to combine the power of Xert with your Stryd running power meter to improve your fitness and deliver your best performances yet. CONTENTS If you're familiar with Xert and want to skip [...]
Updated MPA Charts Give You Even More Insight Into Your Activity & Performance Announcing the new MPA charts! These latest updates will help you better understand your activities, workouts, performances and fitness improvements in a way never done before. Here's what you'll see, and how to use them. Colour-coded MPA [...]
Xert is a powerful system that can help runners of all abilities discover their potential, improve their fitness, and achieve their goals. Below are some insights into how Xert can help you get even more out of your Stryd running power meter. CONTENTS If you want to skip ahead to [...]
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 [...]
We first introduced the idea that workouts can be designed using methods that calculate fatigue versus being based on zones and %FTP. Xert's smart workouts enable athletes to perform workouts that are highly individualized to their specific capabilities, across all intensities from easy pedaling to sprinting. In addition, workouts [...]
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 [...]
Xert can help you coach yourself to reach new limits, and it can also be an invaluable tool for coaches seeking better tools to help coach others to achieve more. If you're a coach, below is a quick guide to help you setup & manage your coaching community in Xert. [...]
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. [...]