Load Monitoring Across the Training Week in Women’s Football
When: Wednesday, 14 October 2026 @ 16:00 BST | 17:00 CEST | 11:00 EDT | 08:00 PDT Join Dr. Laura Bowen, Lead Physical Performance Coach at Tottenham Hotspur Women, and…
Sports
Webinars
Beats Per Purpose: Back to the Basics of Heart Rate, in Practice
A free webinar with Martin Buchheit and Firstbeat. When: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 @ 15:00 EET · 14:00 CET · 13:00 GMT · 08:00 EST Heart rate straps are back…
Preparing for Game Day: Combining Internal and External Load in American Football
Preparing American football players for game day requires more than understanding how much work they’ve done. It also means understanding how each athlete responds to the demands of training…
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
F.C. Como Women Begins Partnership with Firstbeat Sports
F.C. Como Women is proud to announce the start of its partnership with Firstbeat, a company specializing in the analysis of physiological data applied to sports performance, training load, and…
New to Training Summary Report: Track Weekly Time in Heart Rate Zones
A section on time in HR zones has recently been added to the Firstbeat Sports Weekly Training Summary report. This new addition to the report now makes it easier to…
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…
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
Athlete Training Load Guide
Firstbeat guide
Internal Load Matters in Women’s Soccer
Internal Load Matters in Women’s Soccer
Understand how your players respond and adapt to training.
Firstbeat guide
Training Load Guide for Soccer
Events
Firstbeat Sports to Attend FORGED Volleyball Summit
Nov 26–29, 2026, Mesa AZ The Firstbeat Sports team will attend this year’s FORGED Volleyball Summit, from November 26-29 in Mesa, Arizona. This event brings together elite coaches and world-class…
Speed Training Conference: The Evolution of Multidirectional Speed
The Firstbeat Sports team will attend this year’s Sportsmith Speed Conference: The Evolution of Multidirectional Speed, at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester from the 2nd-4th October 2026. This event brings…
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…
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…