How to Use Training Effect: The Firstbeat Sports Feature that Measures the Impact of Training
In this article, we look at how Training Effect is calculated, the Training Effect scale, and how it is visualized in Firstbeat Sports.
Firstbeat Coach Profile: John Marovich – Valparaiso University Women’s Soccer
Valparaiso Soccer´s coach John Marovich is about to use the Firstbeat Sports systems with his team to get valuable insight on the team´s performance levels.
Firstbeat Coach Profile: Jason Kilijanski – Rochester Americans Ice Hockey
The Rochester Americans (AHL) use Firstbeat Sports system to help them get the best performance out of the team when it´s most needed.
How One Insight Can Help Novice Runners Avoid Burnout, Injury, and Become Runners for Life
Inspired beginners often run faster, farther, and more often than they should. This often creates problems down the road that can prevent you from brining.
Many Years of Applying Heart-Rate Information
American professional soccer club Real Salt Lake, the champion of the MLS in 2009 have applied many years’ heart-rate information and especially Training Effect to track players’ physiological loading during…
Firstbeat Coach Profile: Max Rogers – Edinburgh Rugby
Read how Edinburgh Rygby uses Firstbeat Sports to monitor their athletes and what are the main metrics they look at when it comes to training and matches.
How Long Does It Take to Lose Your Fitness?
Just as your fitness improves over time, it declines if you stop training. Significant reductions in your cardiorespiratory fitness, that is VO2max, occur already within 2 to 4 weeks of detraining.
5 Things to Know about Burning More Calories
Intense exercise is an effective way to burn calories in a short time, but it’s okay if you don’t feel like pushing hard. You can increase your energy expenditure and overall health in various ways.
The Bigger the Training Effect, the Better?
You need to push your limits to improve your VO2max and get Aerobic Training Effect of 3.0-5.0. However, exercise can be very useful, although your TE value isn’t that high. The variation is the key to success.
How to Gain Maximum Benefits From Your Team’s Winter Break
The break allows the teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players to recover from their demanding schedule.
Christoph RottensteinerPh.D., Country Manager DACH, Firstbeat