In today’s elite football environment, load monitoring has become a non-negotiable component of high-performance coaching. Balancing training stimulus, recovery, and performance demands is complex, and it requires more than just…
Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), is a professional soccer team competing in Major League Soccer. In 2022, LAFC won the MLS Cup for the first time and the Supporters’ Shield,…
At Firstbeat Sports, we’ve utilized our extensive big data to compare the time youth soccer players and men’s professionals spend in each heart rate zone during their training sessions. The…
Using our Firstbeat big database, we have analyzed the typical Acute Load (7-day TRIMP sum) across different age groups in men’s basketball, ice hockey, and soccer. The data shows that…
Eintracht Frankfurt are impressing fans, coaches and peers with their achievements this season. The picture of Eintracht celebrating following the DFB Cup victory against Bayern Munich last season is still…
In this article, Markus Hödl, Sports Scientist and Athletic Trainer at Hertha BSC, talks about optimizing training for young soccer players with Firstbeat Sports. Hödl was brought into the Hertha setup…
English Championship high-flyers Norwich City have agreed a three-year deal to use Firstbeat Sports, the leading provider of physiological analytics in sports. The Canaries will use Firstbeat Sports’ Premium player monitoring solution to unlock the…
Firstbeat Sports’ simple dashboard provides a fast and effective way to gauge our players. Our performance team also uses the data to open discussions with individual players. They like to know if they are improving on their HRV scores and if they are hitting the individual numbers to maintain or improve performance.
England Women’s soccer international midfielder Jade Moore discusses her use of Firstbeat Sports to aid training, recovery, and performance.
A growing number of collegiate athletes are benefiting from technology as they pursue their performance dreams. With 2022 coming to an end, we thought we’d take a look back at…
With the FIFA World Cup in full swing, many European soccer teams are having a short break during this time. This break period allows teams to build their strategies, work…
Christoph RottensteinerPh.D., Country Manager DACH, Firstbeat
We caught up with assistant Strength & Conditioning coach Alex Buchman to discuss how using Firstbeat technology has helped assess player fitness, improve recovery and boost performances on the field.
Using the Firstbeat Sports platform to monitor training allows Hertha BSC to quantify training loads and watch those loads accumulate in real time.
Discussion about how individual fitness profiles are built, critical contributing factors, and how they contribute to better training decisions.
A growing number of collegiate athletes are benefiting from technology as they pursue their performance dreams. With the NCAA Women’s Soccer and Field Hockey tournaments getting underway this week, eight…
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…
Head Coach John Marovich talks about how he and his staff at Valparaiso University have utilized cutting-edge sports monitoring technology from Firstbeat over the past 18 months to help student athletes in women’s soccer reach their full potential.
This season there’s a new kind of kick going on at Harju Stadium in Jyväskylä. The local soccer club, JJK, earned its way back into the Veikkaus League, Finland’s top competitive league.
