dgutstadt wrote:
mvenneta wrote:
Been using Xert for this specific reason, for 2 years
Awesome addition for TR
can Xert now do both running and cycling in the same account, or is it still ignoring run load on the cycling account and vice versa?
that killed even trying Xert for me, can't do two plans that totally ignore each other
yes you can in a number of ways. You can enter any kind of effort based event, either manually assuming you can estimate the effort in Xert talk XSS (similar to TSS), or they have the ability to infer effort from heart rate data. This I find tends to underestimate efforts. If you have running power then it acts as it should.
The thing with Xert is because there is a far bit o stuff under the hood and much of it is not common knowledge or their flavour of the thing then the learning curve s steep, but once you get your head wrapped around it from what I have seen and read from other users it works.
Xert also has something no otehr platform has that I am aware of. Something in their workout designer called smart workouts. because they have the ability to determine your rate of fatigue while you are actually performing the effort in real time. So you can drag down your reserve to x% and it will estimate based on your fitness signature how long that should take, if for some reason you are way different from that, ie either faster or slower in time it will change the length of the segment. I forget the % threshold but I believe it is more than say 5 or 10% of the target set in the workout plan.
So there are pretty cool things happening there that are not AI but are using more info than a simple per centage FTP as a means of setting workout efforts and determining your relative change in fitness.