The Best of Both Worlds As the popularity of indoor riding continues to rise, many riders find themselves enjoying the safety of riding indoors on their trainer or taking shelter from the elements. Thankfully, structured workouts like those from Xert and online virtual rides from the likes of Zwift not [...]
Xert continues to roll out a wide range of innovations to make it a comprehensive fitness monitoring, tracking, and planning ecosystem. Our latest roll-out is the Training Advisor, an adaptive technology that can guide you day to day with your training leading up to a target date and Focus. As [...]
New Concepts in Fitness Planning Over the years, many of our users have been asking for Xert-based training programs. They appreciate all the great new ideas and ways to measure fitness, but often ask about how they can apply this information towards improving their fitness and preparing for target events. [...]
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 [...]
Advanced Data Analysis with Xert New ideas and concepts continue to come to the forefront on how to apply Xert's revolutionary concepts. Xert's methods to analyze power data and discover new insights into fitness and performance have never existed before. In this blog post, we're going to dive into ways you can learn more about [...]
Hardness as a New Athletic Measurement When we introduced Smart Workouts, we introduced a completely new way to train. Rather than training at a given intensity, smart workouts have you training at a given level of strain. What this means is that smart workouts never get too hard. They are [...]
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. [...]
From Zones to Strain & Focus Training zones have been a long-standing method of prescribing training. Whether they are based on heart rate or power, they are the staple of many training programs. When used for training with power, training zones are often defined relative to your Functional Threshold Power [...]