Monitoring Training Load and Recovery on a Training Camp – Part 1: Active Recovery
Hurdler and Firstbeat’s Key Account Manager Ida Aidanpää-Immonen presents how her body recovers during a training camp in Tenerife.
Listen to Your Body – Also on Sundays
Sundays are generally seen as days in which we athletes “take it easy”, but for me the day doesn’t differ from any other weekday.
Firstbeat on the Road – My Travel Blog
I wore the Firstbeat Bodyguard during a trip from Finland to the UK, including the travel day and a day on the exhibition floor at Health and Wellbeing at Work 2015 conference.
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
What’s Happening in an Athlete’s Mind? – Connecting Sport Psychology and Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
What effect does heart rate variability (HRV) feedback have on athletes’ psychological preparedness and vice versa?
CrossFit Challenges the Athlete’s Ability to Recover
Firstbeat provided real-time training load monitoring for athletes in a national CrossFit competition – the Battle of Jyväskylä – in January 2015 with the Firstbeat Sports Monitor.
In a Jungle of Lifestyle Guidelines, It Can Be Hard to See the Forest from the Trees…
There are a lot of do’s and don’ts, and sometimes it seems that you can find a study that makes almost everything unhealthy.
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Healthy Lifestyle is Crucial in Shift Work
Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment database suggests that especially during the night’s sleep a shift worker’s recovery is significantly reduced.
Satu TuominenExercise Physiologist & Wellness Specialist, Firstbeat
Firstbeat on the Road: My Travel Log
If we want to feel well and perform at a high level, good sleep, sufficient exercise, healthy food, and some enjoyable “non-stress time” daily and weekly are pretty good guidelines to follow in our normal daily life, as well as on the road!
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Searching for Adequate Goals
The Lifestyle Assessment report is like a window to your body’s physiology and the factors affecting it. The most crucial matter is how the information is utilized.
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
A Dream to Reality: Climbing Mount Everest
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…
Good Recovery, Better Performance: Why Monitor Recovery in Team Sports?
The use of Firstbeat Bodyguard sensor allows 24hrs measurements to detect how other factors than training are affecting on recovery.
Life Is Too Short to Be Lived in a Rush
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…
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
Team Firstbeat at the Rokua Geopark Challenge
At the beginning of July Team Firstbeat participated the biggest annual adventure competition in Finland, the Rokua Geopark XTREME 24h Challenge.
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
A Few Thoughts about Summer Holidays, Orienteering and the Continuous Balancing Act…
The summer holiday is a great time to charge the batteries, catch up on sleep, forget about tight schedules and to-do’s and let the phone and computer take a rest.
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Monitoring Recovery on a Training Camp
“Combining the test results with my own experiences gave me a good insight on my state of recovery.”
Floorball from a Physiological Point of View
In order to respond the rapidly changing requirements of the game we need new information on the development of floorball as a sport.
Using Firstbeat in Monitoring an Extreme Running Race
During the last days of March 2014, Budapest became a place for an exciting sport event called the ’Running race in bomb-proof military equipment’.
Physical Activity Is Associated with Lower Objective Stress on Workdays
Objective stress and recovery levels were determined with Firstbeat Analysis Server program from HR recording data.