Hi here!
I am new to Xert, and like it a lot for all the data and freedom of training!
I already made some indoor workout as well as outdoor using XMB, witch is very nice to use one we understand how to configure it !
My post here is to understand how difficulty should be understood…
I made a workout during I was almost drying during near TP intervals (up and down) and settled my 1 hour power record during this workout. My MPA did not approach my power, so far from BT. difficulty rating : 93 .
To sort out how to understand that, I created a simple workout 3hours at TP… who can sustain that?
“The XSSR (XSS Rate) preference determines how much strain gets packed into the time you have available. The default is 100 XSS/hour, which typically translates to a max difficulty of about 3.5 - 4.0 diamonds. But you can scale this up or down depending on how hard you want your sessions to feel or how much time you have.“
We often describe Difficulty Score as “high intensity difficulty”. I could ride Zone 2 for 12 hours and it’d be challenging, but wouldn’t be all that taxing on my high-intensity systems, so that ride would have a pretty low difficulty score.
Difficulty Score is a moving average of your XSS per hour. Riding at threshold currently results in ~100 XSS/hr which is around 3.8 diamond difficulty.
Take a look at more of the high-difficulty score workouts and you’ll see they’re often repeated high-power efforts (like micro-intervals) or sustained efforts with MPA pulled down (like the higher level Hardness tests, like Level 15 here:
I am so glad that the man from the video help me understanding Xert ! Thank you Man of Steel !
Ok , I understand better now. As I am more of a puncheur rider, I have more hard time when it comes to hold TP for long time rather that repeated surges of power.
Thank you Man of Steel !