Combination of TrainerRoad and Xert

It’s sort of like asking MyFitnessPal how much you weigh by inputting everything you ate. It depends on what your starting weight was. It’s the same with Xert; it depends on what your starting signature was. A recalculation by default uses your current signature and assumes it’s your starting signature. In the same way, if you insert or add rides before your first ride, things can change.

Xert uses signature decay by default to help correct things but if you do a lot of easy riding, then there isn’t a lot of information to help hone in on a precise signature. In these cases, having a good starting signature and/or using the No Decay algorithm for periods where there aren’t breakthrough rides is the best way to set things up.

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Weight loss was just used as an analogy to help better understand what the system is doing since how much you weigh today depends on how much you weighed yesterday and so on. Since signatures get propagated from the beginning, your starting signature can have a big impact on your current signature for some athletes and how much it will impact will depend on the nature and frequency of your specific breakthroughs (everyone is different).

Thanks for your comments.

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