How does Xert take account of age?
It does so indirectly, as age can have an impact on your fitness signature parameters. Age can have an impact to how you respond to āVery tiredā and āTiredā status. This isnāt currently accounted for but is something we are looking into.
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Its interesting because, you can find quite a bit of information on how things change 30+. Butā¦I am 50+ (Yea I know!) And how much extra rest is needed is a bit of a mystery!
@Armando, glad to read that you are looking into āAgeā. By the way @Martin Harris, I am 70+ and the āVery tiredā - āFreshā often does not fit me either. Going by how I feel seems to work better for me.
Iām interested to find out if age was factored into the Xert Training Advisor, or if this is something still being considered? Iām 65 and increasingly find that too little recovery or workouts are too long without sufficient intensity are programmed.
I know I can change the āfreshnessā slider to the left (tired), but this seems to result in Xert prescribing longer, more endurance based workouts.
Whilst I canāt pretend that I understand the physiological details, I believe that as we age our bodies require longer to recover from activities. Also my understanding is that older riders tend to loose the ātop endā (fast twitch?) faster than āenduranceā capability, and itās important to keep on with shorter/harder efforts to reduce the rate of decline.
Bottom line, Iām not after a detailed explanation of the Xert system, however I would like to know that age is/will be factored into the model so that I donāt have to constantly manually adjust system settings because Iām not a young buck anymore!
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