Block Training to Boost Your Endurance Performance
Olli-Pekka Nuuttila writes about his master’s thesis “Comparison of the predetermined and HRV-guided block training: the effects of 8-week intensive training period on endurance performance”.
Exercise and Fitness
5 Reasons to Boost your VO2max
Results matter. In terms of understanding whether your activity and lifestyle profile translates into real health benefits, VO2max – the defining metric of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) – is the perfect resource.
Insights Behind Life with CrossFit: The Results of Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment
See how the Lifestyle Assessment helped crossfit athlete Laura Hämäläinen manage her everyday life activities in terms of stress, sleep and training.
Laura HamalainenGuest Author
Firstbeat Gets Calorie Counts Right
Accurate calorie counts provide insight for better personal health decisions and reveal the effectiveness of weight management efforts.
Smarter Endurance Training with Heart Rate Variability Guidance
The ability to predict how a particular individual will react to a training protocol in advance is a critical step in getting training prescriptions right.
Ville VesterinenGuest Author
About Exercise, Alcohol and Recovery
If the goal is to improve fitness, training must be matched with good recovery. One of the factors known to have a negative effect on recovery is alcohol.
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Why Should I Exercise, If I Don’t Feel Like It?
Battling stress and tiredness isn’t easy, but there are a few things you can do to help yourself.
Satu TuominenExercise Physiologist & Wellness Specialist, Firstbeat
Focus on Recovery: Firstbeat Helps Cross-fit Athletes Stay Goal-Oriented
Staying goal-oriented in training is important, and today my daily challenge is to maximize recovery. There are times when my head is tired, but my body feels alert and ready to go.
HIIT as a way to spice up your fitness routine?
HIIT is a trendy form of training today – according to American College of Sports Medicine’s Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends 2015, it’s the no. 2 fitness trend in the world.
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Listen to Your Body – Also on Sundays
Sundays are generally seen as days in which we athletes “take it easy”, but for me the day doesn’t differ from any other weekday.
CrossFit Challenges the Athlete’s Ability to Recover
Firstbeat provided real-time training load monitoring for athletes in a national CrossFit competition – the Battle of Jyväskylä – in January 2015 with the Firstbeat Sports Monitor.
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.
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
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.
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
Monitoring Recovery on a Training Camp
“Combining the test results with my own experiences gave me a good insight on my state of recovery.”
Using Firstbeat in Monitoring an Extreme Running Race
During the last days of March 2014, Budapest became a place for an exciting sport event called the ’Running race in bomb-proof military equipment’.
Developing the Sixth Sense
The analysis in Firstbeat Sport provides us a tool to observe how the training and behavioral lifestyle factors are affecting the athletes’ bodies as a whole.
Marko MalvelaGuest Author
A Day in the Life of an Athlete: Training and Mind Processing
An athlete’s life is continuous observation and analysis of feelings, state of recovery, muscles and other performance-related factors.