In today’s elite football environment, load monitoring has become a non-negotiable component of high-performance coaching. Balancing training stimulus, recovery, and performance demands is complex, and it requires more than just…
How do you measure a training session? By the hours you put in? Maybe the distances racked up? Or asking an athlete for verbal feedback? These are useful guides, but…
TRIMP (Training Impulse) is a powerful metric that helps sports teams quantify training load using heart rate data, enabling coaches to optimize performance, manage injury risk, and ensure athletes are game-ready….
In today’s competitive sports landscape, simply tracking heart rate isn’t enough. Coaches need deeper insights to optimize training, manage injury risk, and maximize performance. Firstbeat Sports takes team heart rate…
Selecting the right physiological monitoring tool can significantly impact how athletes train, recover, and perform. An effective system goes beyond basic data tracking, offering insights that empower teams to make…
In this article, guest writer and Firstbeat client Konstantinos Stratakis discusses the role of off-season conditioning in team sports, including balancing sports-specific and non-specific conditioning like HIIT. He also explores…
Konstantinos StratakisPerformance and Sports Scientist
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Simon Heidenreich is the strength and conditioning coach at Blue Devils Weiden, a professional ice hockey team competing in Germany’s DEL 2 league. In this article, Simon talks about how…
Arnau Pina is the Strength and Conditioning Coach at Halcones de Xalapa, a basketball team competing in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, Mexico’s top professional basketball league. In this…
It takes up a little bit more of my time, but I’d rather not guess. You can see when people are tired but if you’re a good strength coach, you want to figure out why. Firstbeat gives you enough information to figure out why someone is tired or why someone is not tired.
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How can coaches help youth players thrive in first-team soccer? Webinar with Dr. James Malone, Sport Scientist and Founder of Malone Performance. We explore how internal load data can support…
How can physiological data help optimize training, enhance player performance, and manage injury risk in women’s football? Join special guest speaker Lead Sports Scientist at Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Catarina…
Discover how internal load metrics can be used to individualize microcycle plans, manage player fatigue, and enhance performance in soccer. This webinar is designed for sport scientists, coaches, and practitioners…
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Firstbeat Sports is attending this year’s NSCA Connecticut State Clinic, an event which brings cutting edge research to strength and conditioning coaches. The event will be held on May 30…
Firstbeat Sports is attending this year’s Performance-4 conference, an event which brings together the nation’s best college basketball strength coaches. The event will be held on April 4 in San Antonio,…
John Lally and Veli-Pekka Kurunmäki will attend the PFPCA Vendor Trade Show on April 2 in Orlando, Florida on behalf of Firstbeat Sports. They will meet with participants to talk…
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Firstbeat Sports and 1.FC Köln have announced a new multi-year agreement that will see the German club from the Rhine metropolis implement Firstbeat as part of their long-term performance strategy….
KSV 1919 and Firstbeat Sports have entered into a strategic partnership to take player performance management and development to the next level for approximately 150 players across the professional and…
Firstbeat is excited to announce a new agreement with Atlanta United FC that will see the men’s professional soccer team use the Firstbeat Sports Premium Plus solution for the next…
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