Employee Well-Being Strategy – What Is It and How Do You Create One?
Nowadays there is a lot of talk about employee well-being, but how often is it at the core of a company’s priorities along with finance and product development? Is employee…
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Structure Your Day Better with Firstbeat Life’s Real-Time Results
The newest feature in Firstbeat Life – real-time results – give you a glimpse into your stress and recovery status during the measurement. Real-time data allows you to react promptly and…
Satu TuominenExercise Physiologist & Wellness Specialist, Firstbeat
Navigating a ‘Season Like no Other’
Jaime Fernandez helped the Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball team reach the NCAA national championships final for the first time in their history, using Firstbeat Sports.
Measure Your Stress and Recovery Levels More Accurately – Updated Firstbeat Life Analytics Promote Health and Well-Being
Firstbeat Life is the most advanced technology for balancing stress and recovery. The measurement data provided by the service helps to understand one’s own reactions and resources with science-backed confidence….
Back to Work 2: Post-Holiday Blues or Resilience and Rock & Roll Year-Round?
With the summer drawing to a close, now is a great time to ensure that you stay energized during the months ahead. Tiina Hoffman provides some tips on how… This…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Firstbeat Life and Wearables – What’s the Difference?
From HRV and sleep monitoring to recovery data, here’s how Firstbeat Life differs from wearables.
Building Physical Activity Into Your Days in Lockdown and Beyond
The health benefits of exercise are powerful, and yet, too many do not make a habit of it. 2020 moved people into lockdown and remote work, and the problem of…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Firstbeat Graph: How to Interpret it to Understand Your Stress, Recovery, and Exercise Status
Stress, recovery and physical activity are part of everyday life. The key is finding the right balance between them. Accurate physiological measurements and the Firstbeat Graph reveal a view of…
How to Get Good Quality Sleep: Your Questions Answered
This blog focuses on some common topics and questions surrounding good quality sleep. The Q&A is based on questions received during our Sleep webinar with Sleep Expert and Author Dr….
Microbreak Recovery During the Workday – Manage Workload Remotely and in the Office
It is alarming that many employees do not recover during the work day at all. In continuous work, the body and mind are easily overloaded, which, in turn, increases load and fatigue. Therefore,…
Manual Exercise Input: Fill the Gaps in an Athlete’s Training History for Accurate Data
The new Manual Exercise Input feature ensures your longitudinal monitoring doesn’t miss a beat. Even when you can’t capture session data (maybe an athlete is with their national team or…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Video Recommendations: How to Turn Your Health Insights into Actions
Making healthy choices in everyday life isn’t always easy. And, as individuals, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s where personal health data and recommendations from the Firstbeat Life corporate wellness solution…
Movement Load: Profiling Athletes and Their Individual Characteristics
In my previous blog, Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data, I discussed the general principles behind Movement Load, what it is, and how it can be used…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
How to Navigate the Holidays with a Sense of Recovery Instead of Stress
2020 or 2021 are not like most years, even when it comes to the Holiday Season – reading through my previous holiday blogs made it very clear that my message…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
I Sleep Enough so Why Does Daytime Recovery Matter?
Taking breaks during work and having moments of daytime recovery have been raised as key wellness topics recently, especially due to the challenges surrounding increased remote working. And with good…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Monitoring Training Load Among Goalkeepers on the Rise
Do players with better athleticism score more goals? Maybe. Do goalkeepers with better athleticism save more shots? Yes, says René Stampler, lecturer at the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) and Bavarian…
Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data
Movement Load metric allows you to quantify the movement of your athletes using the Firstbeat Sports platform. But what exactly is Movement Load? What should you do with information it…
Graham StarkSports Scientist
Firstbeat Life Update: Improvement in Automatic Sleep Detection
We have made improvements to our sleep recognition logic. If a sleeping period is missing from the journal entries for some nights, the app will now recognize this automatically. This…