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Research: Is Subjective Stress Associated with Objectively Measured Stress?

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…

#Stress & Recovery

Eye-Openers and Insights from Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment Results

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…

#Corporate Wellness

Back to Work! Post-Holiday Reflections

Firstbeat’s Exercise Physiologist & Master Trainer Tiina Hoffman reflects on her summer holiday, having just returned to work after a 4-week holiday.

Track and field athlete measured her recovery during a training camp

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Measuring Training Load and Recovery on a Training Camp – Part 2: How Does Training Hard Affect Recovery?

Hurdler Ida Aidanpää-Immonen presents data she got from conducting measurements with the Firstbeat Bodyguard device during a training camp at Tenerife.

Track and field athlete used Firstbeat to track her training load and recovery on a training camp

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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.

#Exercise and Fitness

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.

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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.

#Sports Coaching

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?

#Exercise and Fitness

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.

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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.

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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!