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The Big Picture of Wellness – Stress Management, Good Sleep and Nutrition Go Hand in Hand

Weight management and healthy eating are issues that wellness professionals face every day with their clients.

Looking at Cheerleaders. What Can Science Tell Us About Game Day?

When it comes to cheerleading, very little – if any – research is available that squads can use to help prepare themselves to perform. Monitoring cardiovascular load is vital to best train athletes in all sports.

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The Tissue Box Psychologist: What Does Your First Reaction to Getting Sick Say About You?

Cold and flu season are knocking on the door once again. That means now is the perfect time to look deep and uncover what your reaction to falling under the weather says about you.

tim beltz training load monitoring in basketball

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NCAA Basketball: Challenging Players with the Right Training Load

The ability to track intensity and quantify training loads using technology plays a big role in today’s game, giving team experts the ability to see in specific terms how individual athletes are impacted by training and how they respond at a physiological level.

Employees are company's valuable asset, so they need to be taken care of.

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Work Hard, Play Hard, Rest Even Harder

Employees are companies’ most valuable asset, so their well-being should be priority number one. We need to act to change the tune of how Britons work.

a student of the University of Jyväskylä did the Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment

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3 Days in the Life of a College Student

See how a student is dealing with college life, and what kinds of insights the Lifestyle Assessment might offer to students in general.

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15 Years of Firstbeat – What Have We Learned?

Little by little, year after year, we have built and sharpened the analytic tools needed to untangle and decode the secrets embedded in our personal heart rhythms.

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Block Training to Boost Your Endurance Performance

Olli-Pekka Nuuttila writes about his master’s thesis “Comparison of the predetermined and HRV-guided block training: the effects of 8-week intensive training period on endurance performance”.

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Ask the Expert: All-day Stress Added to Garmin Forerunner 935 and Fenix 5. What’s It All About?

Garmin recently announced a significant update to the Forerunner 935 and Fenix 5 series watches. New feature, All-day Stress, powered by Firstbeat.

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Solving the Training-Injury Prevention Paradox

In August 2017, Firstbeat Sports hosted a special webinar featuring Dr. Tim Gabbett, an internationally renowned physiologist and leading expert on the topics of training demands and injury prevention.

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Back to Work: Post-Holiday Blues or Resilience and Rock&Roll Year Around?

Holidays can and should be a great energizer, but why not also use them as a reminder to carry some of the holiday mood into our lives year around.

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5 Reasons to Boost your VO2max

Results matter. In terms of understanding whether your activity and lifestyle profile translates into real health benefits, VO2max – the defining metric of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) – is the perfect resource.