Top 5 Tips for Charging Your Batteries and Recovering During the Summer
There is more to a vacation than closing the office door and plugging in the personal re-charger. Here’s our TOP 5 list of things to remember on a vacation.
There is more to a vacation than closing the office door and plugging in the personal re-charger. Here’s our TOP 5 list of things to remember on a vacation.
2 weeks ago I had a chance to attend the Institute of Functional Medicine’s annual international conference in San Diego, where the theme was innovative movement and restorative strategies. Firstbeat’s…
Is it dangerous when your resources are decreasing? Resources decrease, if recovery is not sufficient in relation to stress.
Different cultures have different drinking habits. Let’s take a closer look at those of Finnish people. According to statistics, an average Finn older than 15 years consumed 11.2 litres of…
In some of my blogs I’ve discussed the personal lessons that Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment reports have taught me over the years: exercise in the evening delays my sleep recovery significantly…
The basic elements of well-being can be grouped into three main categories: exercise, rest and nutrition. The technology provided by Firstbeat focuses on the exercise and rest categories to offer…
Tiina Föhr M.Sc. in health sciences/sports medicine, physiotherapist Currently writing her doctoral thesis on the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and work stress with special reference to heart rate variability…
Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment is typically a 3-day measurement during daily life, at work and during leisure time and sleep, with the idea of looking where no one has looked before…
Johanna Gustafsson had been dreaming about climbing Mount Everest since she was a child. Many people dream about this adventure but for Johanna, it ended up being more than a…
After a hot summer and the summer holiday season, it is time to head back to work and face our everyday routines and schedules. Fall is the time of new…
Objective stress and recovery levels were determined with Firstbeat Analysis Server program from HR recording data.
The analysis in Firstbeat Sport provides us a tool to observe how the training and behavioral lifestyle factors are affecting the athletes’ bodies as a whole.