Focus Type in the Adaptive Training Advisor provides guidance on what the Focus needs to be for the workout at this point in your training program. It also factors in whether you are Tired or Very Tired. The guidance is not meant to provide a workout structure but provide some simple [...]
One of the main premises that Xert works under is that it when an activity is synced/uploaded, it uses your latest Fitness Signature to determine if you had any maximal efforts. If a max effort exceeds the MPA determined by your Fitness Signature, you get a breakthrough, and your Fitness Signature [...]
It is not uncommon to see your Training Deficit/Surplus increase over one day or sometime even a few hours. Training deficit depends on your activities in the past week. Activities don't accumulate continuously. The deficit calculation is based your Improvement Rate and takes into account your activities from the past week. [...]
The Xert Player for Garmin ConnectIQ requires that you configure the trainer as part of the app. You need to select it in the app in order to get Trainer Control. Unfortunately, due to the restrictions within the Garmin ConnectIQ environment, the power and speed data collected from the trainer [...]
Adding Manual Activities Adding manual activities to your activity history is easy. Simply use the Fitness Planner and click on the day when you had the activity: You can update the time of the activity (use the pencil beside the time) and be sure enter in the duration, XSS, Focus [...]
Sometimes you may open an activity and see lots of yellow dots or the Difficulty Score is off the chart. You may see the left axis start with MPA over 2000W. Whenever you see this it generally means that the system didn't understand your data. Xert expects your data to [...]
How can I Sync Historical Activities from Strava to Xert? If you are looking add more of your historical activities from Strava into Xert, simply follow the steps below: 1. Navigate to Sync > Strava from the top left panel (from the top menu if you're on a tablet/mobile device): [...]
How to Export My TrainingPeaks Workouts and Import them into Xert TrainingPeaks unfortunately no longer allows third-parties from accessing data on TrainingPeaks, even if you're a paying user. Previously they allow access via an Internet-based API but as of December 2016, this has been shutdown. You can still bring over [...]
Setting Up Your Garmin Device (Read this guide prior to following the video on setting up the app. There are some differences with the latest version of the app.) Use the Garmin app store to download the app onto your Garmin. Once the app is downloaded, you'll need to make some initial [...]
The Xert Remote Player is a web-based app that receives data being collected and processed by your Garmin Edge Connect IQ device or Xert Mobile for Android and displays the data in real-time via your browser. You can view the Remote Player from any device with recent browser such as [...]