Your Training Status and Form colour and number of stars provide a simple visual of two very important aspects of you as an athlete: How trained are you? This is the number of stars. How much training and what type of training have you be doing recently? This the [...]
In general, you should not add activities other than cycling to your cycling profile. This is because the XSS you input from other activities will get applied to predictions and, for most activities, the benefit they provide to your cycling fitness isn't easily measured. If you'd like to keep a [...]
Xert does not allow you to directly edit the data in your activity files. If you need to make adjustments to a data file, such as removing a power spike, changing the starting date/time of an activity, or even removing a section of the data, you can use a service [...]
Xert looks for breakthroughs every time you upload/sync an activity. This is one of the main features of the software. Breakthroughs mean that a change in your Fitness Signature has been discovered and has been updated. Xert shows you the breakthrough information including the streetview image and the change in [...]
If you’re seeing more than one of the same activity in Activities > Dashboard or Table, it could be due to one of several reasons: Time zone discrepancies between the source of your activity file and your Xert account; Double syncing i.e. you're syncing your Xert account with both Strava [...]
The precision required to determine breakthroughs is quite high. Imagine that the algorithm is able pick out as few as a handful of seconds from thousands of seconds in detecting a breakthrough. Small variations can play a big part in whether a breakthrough has occurred. Here are the main reasons: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]