Preparing for Game Day: Combining Internal and External Load in American Football
Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:00 PM CDT | 4:00 PM EDT | 1:00 PM PDT | 9:00 PM BST | 10:00 PM CEST Preparing American football players for game…
Sports
Webinars
Managing Individual Responses in Elite Ice Hockey
Thursday August 27th, 2026 @ at 13:00 CEST, 14:00 EEST, 12:00 BST Join Joel Wenning (Firstbeat) and Marko Haverinen, Head of Performance at Tappara, Finland’s most successful ice hockey club and current Liiga champions, for a…
Using Heart Rate Data to Plan and Deliver Pre-Season in Elite Soccer
Wednesday 17th June 2026 @ 14:00 UK BST, 15:00 CEST, 16:00 EEST Every coach knows that pre-season is vital. It sets the tone for the rest of the campaign and…
User Stories
Train As You Play: How Firstbeat Helps Syntainics MBC Navigate A 60-Game Season
Simone Controne is Strength and Conditioning Coach at Syntainics MBC, a professional basketball team competing in Germany’s Basketball Bundesliga. In this user story, Simone discusses some of the challenges of…
How EV Landshut Manages Weekly Training Load and Keeps All Players Match Ready
Leo Loibl is the Strength & Conditioning Coach at EV Landshut, a professional ice hockey team competing in Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2. In this user story, Leo shares the…
How FFHG Uses Firstbeat Data to Guide Training on the Road to Milano Cortina
In this Firstbeat interview, players and staff from the French Ice Hockey Federation (FFHG) share how they integrate Firstbeat into their training program as they prepare for the 2026 Olympic…
News
New Research Highlights Training Consistently Underdelivers High-Intensity Cardiac Stimulus for Non-Starters
Firstbeat Technologies has co-published a new research paper with renowned sports scientist Martin Buchheit, analyzing heart rate data from 20 professional football teams across 9 leagues. The study examined 948…
Firstbeat Sports Introduces Reference Values for Easier Use of Data on the Field
Coaches can now instantly put results into context by comparing them with typical values for their sport or with athletes’ previous training sessions. This makes data immediately actionable on the…
Firstbeat and Eerikkilä Enter a Long-Term Partnership – Data Supports Individual Development
Firstbeat and Eerikkilä have signed a long-term partnership agreement aimed at supporting the training and well-being of young athletes and active individuals with physiological data. Eerikkilä is a sports facility…
Trainings
SMFT Made Simple: Live Insights with Philipp Lussi, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Watch the recording. Real-Time View. Automated Results. No Manual Work. Firstbeat’s Joel Wenning joined by Philipp Lussi from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim to demonstrate how coaches can now measure SMFT automatically…
Assessing Athlete Performance and Trainability
Every athlete is unique, and so is their response to training. Understanding these responses is key to maximizing performance. In this session, we’ll explore how individual characteristics affect trainability and…
Behind the Firstbeat Data: Real World Athlete and Team Monitoring Case Studies
Wednesday, October 29 @ 13:00 GMT, 14:00 CET, 15:00 EET In this educational session, we’ll go beyond the data and examine real-world cases, exploring how to interpret Firstbeat data, taking…
Blog
Who Is Ready Today? Start With Recovery, Then Ask Why
It’s a familiar scene in team sports. The athletes arrive at the facility for the morning meeting. Some look energized and engaged. Others seem flat. A few mention sore legs,…
When the Heat Rises, So Does the Load, And It’s Different for Every Player
Every coach knows a hot session feels harder. What’s less obvious is that the same session in the same heat puts wildly different strain on different players. That’s the case…
Optimizing NHL Performance: How Firstbeat Data Drives Player Insights with the Colorado Avalanche
In this article, based on an interview with Alexi Pianosi, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Colorado Avalanche, we explore how one of the NHL’s top teams uses physiological…
Guides
Firstbeat guide
Training Load Guide for Soccer
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How-To-Guide: Return to Play After Injury
Firstbeat guide
How-To-Guide: Hard Training Sessions (GD-3/4) with Firstbeat Sports
Events
Firstbeat Sports Attending Hockey Performance Xchange (HPX)
Firstbeat Sports will attend this year’s Hockey Performance Xchange Summit from 28-29 May 2026, in Malmö. Hockey Performance Xchange (HPX) is a professional education and networking platform dedicated to advancing…
Firstbeat Sports Team Attending 2026 Sport Science Symposium
Matt Tardif will attend the Sport Science Symposium from May 29-31,2026, in Houston, Texas, on behalf of Firstbeat Sports. The Sport Science Symposium is organized by a group of leading practitioners…
Firstbeat Sports Team Attending 2026 WCBA Convention
Matt Tardif will attend the WCBA Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, from April 2-5, 2026, on behalf of Firstbeat Sports. He will meet with participants to talk about how women’s basketball coaches…
Podcasts
Coaching Across the AHL, NCAA, KHL, and Liiga: HIFK’s Matias Sarvela on Adapting to Different Hockey Cultures
In this episode, we’re chatting with Matias Sarvela, S&C Coach at HIFK. Matias is an experienced strength and conditioning coach with a uniquely international background in professional ice hockey and…
Data-Driven Football Performance in Bundesliga – with Jonas Bode, Lead Performance Coach at Borussia Mönchengladbach
Jonas Bode is a performance coach working with the first team at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga. He has built his career through the German football system, starting in…
Data-Driven Training in the UFC – with Roman Fomin, Director of Sport Science at the Ultimate Fighting Championship – Ep. 20
Welcome to the Firstbeat Sports Podcast where we talk with coaches and sports scientists to explore the latest in performance monitoring and how it is making a difference in NCAA…