Jaakko Kotisaari, Author at Firstbeat

Less Stressful Life Starts from the Inside: Harness Your Inner Voice to Support Stress Management

Traditionally, stress means a situation where the demands and challenges that we are faced with are so great that our resources are stretched to the limit – or insufficient. Quite…

#Stress & Recovery

Let’s Drink to That! What Recovery Data Shows About Alcohol, and How Coaches Can Use It

Alcohol is one of the clearest reasons a client’s recovery looks poor in measurement data. In Firstbeat’s analysis, drinking 1 g of alcohol per kilogram of body weight reduced recovery…

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Facts About Sleep: “Night is a Picture Painted with Daily Choices”

The basic elements of well-being can be grouped into three main categories: exercise, rest and nutrition. The technology provided by Firstbeat focuses on the exercise and rest categories to offer…

#Exercise and Fitness

Searching for Adequate Goals

The Lifestyle Assessment report is like a window to your body’s physiology and the factors affecting it. The most crucial matter is how the information is utilized.

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Life Is Too Short to Be Lived in a Rush

After a hot summer and the summer holiday season, it is time to head back to work and face our everyday routines and schedules. Fall is the time of new…

#Exercise and Fitness

Team Firstbeat at the Rokua Geopark Challenge

At the beginning of July Team Firstbeat participated the biggest annual adventure competition in Finland, the Rokua Geopark XTREME 24h Challenge.

Heading Towards the Marathon of Dangers

Firstbeat will be represented in the 15km, 43 km and the ultimate 86km routes. For some of us, it will be the very first marathon.