Measuring Sleep to Help Manage Athletic Performance
As part of sleep awareness week, March 13-19, it seems a good time to have a look at the subject and how you can utilize Firstbeat Sports to monitor your…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Sports Coaching
Navigating a ‘Season Like no Other’
Jaime Fernandez helped the Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball team reach the NCAA national championships final for the first time in their history, using Firstbeat Sports.
Manual Exercise Input: Fill the Gaps in an Athlete’s Training History for Accurate Data
The new Manual Exercise Input feature ensures your longitudinal monitoring doesn’t miss a beat. Even when you can’t capture session data (maybe an athlete is with their national team or…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Movement Load: Profiling Athletes and Their Individual Characteristics
In my previous blog, Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data, I discussed the general principles behind Movement Load, what it is, and how it can be used…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Monitoring Training Load Among Goalkeepers on the Rise
Do players with better athleticism score more goals? Maybe. Do goalkeepers with better athleticism save more shots? Yes, says René Stampler, lecturer at the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) and Bavarian…
Felix LoßGerman Content Specialist, Firstbeat
Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data
We recently introduced the Movement Load metric to Firstbeat Sports, which allows you to quantify the movement of your athletes using the Firstbeat Sports platform for the first time. But…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Princeton Rowing Use New Firstbeat and Garmin Health Solution for Effective Remote Training
With the current postponement of most sports competitions and the disruption of traditional training methods, some teams are adjusting to the ‘new normal’ by using innovative solutions based on Garmin…
Remote Training in Challenging Circumstances
Firstbeat Sports offers a diverse range of features available to meet the needs of teams of all levels during these trying times.
Lap Management Tool: Empowering Learning From Physiological Analytics
Isolate and analyze specific session or game moments using Firstbeat Sports’ Lap Management tool.
How to Use Training Effect: The Firstbeat Sports Feature that Measures the Impact of Training
In this article, we look at how Training Effect is calculated, the Training Effect scale, and how it is visualized in Firstbeat Sports.
Training Status: the Balance of Training for an Individual Athlete
A comprehensive breakdown of the Training Status feature in Firstbeat Sports.
Firstbeat HRV Summit 2019: Key Takeaways on Fitness and Training
This year, the Firstbeat HRV Summit 2019’s Fitness & Training session welcomed speakers from Finland, North America, France and Germany.