I have been running a training program since last September and it is going great. Recently I decided to slightly modify the program and increase the max hours. These max hours are still within the available hours I have. However the program almost never get anywhere close to the max hours. It does this while saying that I will not be as highly trained at my goal in June.
I am a believer in the Xert system. I have seen some great improvements over traditional coaching since September. But I would just love to understand more why the program doesn’t believe I can, or need to train the amount of hours I think I can, at least for my biggest weeks.
Hi Nick! Thanks for the feedback - and great to hear your training is going well so far! 
Just to clarify: your Max Weekly Hours and Daily Availability act as ceilings, not targets. In other words, they define the maximum amount of time Xert can assign, but not what it will assign each week.
Xert only gives you the amount of training needed to reach your goals and the amount it believes your body can realistically handle based on your current training loads. For example, if your body is used to training 8 hours per week, and you bump your availability up to 25 hours… that doesn’t mean you should suddenly start training 25 hours/week. The system will still ramp you up progressively.
If you’re open to it, feel free to share more about your program or goals - maybe even a screenshot of your Forecast Chart. That’ll give us more context and help us offer better suggestions!
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Thanks ManofSteele
So I am a cat 2 40+ masters racer, who will do 35 to 40 race days a year. These races often are raced at very similar speeds to cat 1/Pro fields with just a shorter duration. So I am looking to push my training as close as I can to cat 1/2 levels. I just don’t want to leave anything on the table.
I have in the past trained 17 to 20 hours a week. When I switched to Xert I listed that as what I was able to do. I know this is just peak training weeks. I would have 10, 12, 15 etc., hour weeks as well.
Now I want to say, that xert has gotten me in pretty great shape so far this year. So I should really just shut up and keep going. This is really only a question, and probably part of the fallacy of man type thing. “If I am training this hard and am this good, wont I get better if I train more!?”. Perhaps as xert sees I am getting stronger in coming months and years it will start to use more of the allowable hours…….