As an open question, you'll get a few interpretations. Our interpretation (Disclosure: I am the founder of Xert) is that there are a number of factors that make you "faster", more power available for the event you're racing in is one aspect. "More" really depends on what you're tracking: time, distance or some other quantifiable measure of "more cycling". Xert uses 3 dimensions of "more", namely more lower training load, more high training load and more peak training load, each of which contributes to you being faster but come into affect over different intensities. More lower training load correlates with higher FTP (or TP in our lingo), more high training load correlates with a larger High Intensity Energy store and more peak training load correlates with higher Peak Power. The *more* training load you can accumulate, the higher each of these values.
So, in general, more cycling makes you faster but the dimension you're increasing affects which part of you gets faster.
Does this answer the question? :-)
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