Answering the Fitness Question with Science
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When it comes to your health and fitness, it’s easy to ask the wrong questions. “Am I fit?” is one of these questions that just creates problems. Thinking about your fitness in terms of VO2max is the easiest way to get started.
Block Training to Boost Your Endurance Performance
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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”.
5 Reasons to Boost your VO2max
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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
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See how the Lifestyle Assessment helped crossfit athlete Laura Hämäläinen manage her everyday life activities in terms of stress, sleep and training.
Firstbeat Gets Calorie Counts Right
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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
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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.
About Exercise, Alcohol and Recovery
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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.
Why Should I Exercise, If I Don’t Feel Like It?
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Battling stress and tiredness isn’t easy, but there are a few things you can do to help yourself.
Focus on Recovery: Firstbeat Helps Cross-fit Athletes Stay Goal-Oriented
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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?
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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.
Listen to Your Body – Also on Sundays
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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
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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.