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…
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…
Short turnaround between matches, long-haul travel, different environments, and extreme pressure. International tournaments push players to their limits, but how should practitioners shift their approach to ensure that athletes are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…