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Ever wondered what your heart rate variability (HRV) says about your health? 🤔 HRV isn't just about your heart—it's a powerful indicator of your overall well-being! This insightful blog from Firstbeat Exercise Physiologist Satu Tuominen dives deep into how measuring HRV can give you a clearer picture of your stress levels, recovery, and even your readiness to take on the day.   ❤️ Discover how understanding your HRV can help you make smarter choices for a healthier, more balanced life.   💡 Tracking your HRV is beneficial, but it's not always simple or straight-forward. With Firstbeat Life, we help interpret HRV by turning the data into concrete and practical insights about your stress and recovery status and sleep.   Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dxspRfrk   #WellBeing #HealthTech #HeartHealth #HRV #StressManagement

🏉🏈 Rugby vs. American Football: How Do Their Training Styles Differ? Using our Firstbeat big data, we compared the training styles of men’s rugby and American football players. Here’s what we discovered: • Rugby Players: They train with higher Movement Intensity (average Movement Load per minute) over longer periods (30 minutes), emphasizing speed and aerobic endurance. • American Football Players: Their training involves high-intensity bursts (less than 10 seconds) but doesn’t sustain this intensity throughout the session like rugby players, focusing more on power and speed for short, fast spurts in their interval-based games. Do these findings match your team’s training approach? Stay tuned for more Firstbeat Sports data insights! #firstbeat #bigdata #sportscience #americanfootball #rugby

Huge congratulations to our client @realmadrid for their victory yesterday to win a record 6th UEFA Super Cup! 🏆🔥 #6supercups #realmadrid #firstbeat

💓 What happens when the Mercedes team tries to get the heart rates of TV presenters as high as possible? Firstbeat’s technology was recently featured in Sky’s Heart Rate Challenge with Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, and Toto Wolff. Their mission? See who could send Sky F1 presenters' hearts racing the most as they navigated the iconic Silverstone track, drifting just inches from the wall! 😱   Check out the video below to see how it turned out!   https://lnkd.in/dYwwsCCG  #firstbeat #skysports #f1 #heartratechallenge 

The idea of a holiday is to get a break from work routines and tight schedules and do things that you enjoy. 🤸♀️ There are a lot of ways to take a great holiday; the main thing is to make sure it works for you, your budget, and your needs. This, of course, is not so easy… 🤔 What if your holiday didn't go as planned? Perhaps you got sick? Your schedule filled up with too many things? Or maybe life threw other curve balls in the way of your ideal holiday? It’s important to remember that we shouldn't just live for the holidays! Instead of always pushing ourselves to the limit until the next weekend or holiday, we should take every effort to recharge and recuperate on a daily and weekly basis. If we adopt that mindset and pay attention to balance and recovery throughout the year, we can enjoy life with better energy most of the time - and probably get more out of our holidays, too. 🧘♀️ #recovery #balancedlife   I made a #FirstbeatLife measurement before my holiday to see where I was at and repeated it this week, a few days after being back. My data was not great before the summer (sleep scores were ranging from 31 - 39/100), due to various things going on in my life. My time-off wasn’t all zen-like perfection, either ... I had a cold (probably Covid) right before my holiday and felt far from 100%. I truly enjoyed my time-off, but had to be very conscious of taking it easy (a bit annoying because I'd wanted to do some longer kayaks and hikes). I wondered what my data would be like, but the result made me happy: - Overall score 74/100, with balanced resources and good #physicalactivity pts. from biking to work. - A better #sleep result (62/100) than I've had in almost a year, with higher #hrv, lower heart rate, and less #stress reactions. 😴 - Good daytime #recovery: Stress-recovery balance 76/100, compared to 46 pre-holiday. Of course, this doesn't mean that everything is permanently better now, but a good example of why it's worthwhile to collect some #wellness data once in a while. Sometimes the data might be worse than you thought, prompting you to make a few adjustments. Other times, you get a better result and can give yourself a pat on the back: "I'm doing something right". For me, the result was a positive affirmation - the holiday period boosted my well-being and hopefully I've managed to kick the after-effects of the cold and can head towards the fall with good #energy #resilience. Might be a good time to check what your #Firstbeat data looks like, if you haven't done it in a while! There is always something to learn. 😊 Feel free to share your findings here; I’d love to see it.

We’re excited to share that @slbenfica has renewed their partnership with Firstbeat Sports over the summer! Plus, we’re heading to the SL Benfica Health & Performance Congress in Lisbon on September 10 and 11! 🙌 The event will consist of two intense days covering hot topics in medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, sports science, nutrition, and psychology. Be sure to stop by the Firstbeat booth if you’re attending to learn more about how to use the Firstbeat Sports athlete performance management platform to support your coaching decisions and optimize your team’s training, performance, and recovery. Check out our events page for more info. See you there! 👀 https://lnkd.in/dngfkp7M

We’re heading to the Football Athletic Conference in Dortmund! ⚽🙌 Catch the Firstbeat Sports team at the Football Athletic Conference in Dortmund on September 2nd and 3rd, organized by EINS-A COACHING! Stop by our booth to see how the Firstbeat Sports athlete performance management platform can support your coaching decisions and optimize your team’s training, performance, and recovery. Check out the events page for more info. See you there! https://lnkd.in/dNErGMx9

🏅 Women’s Sports Coaches! 🏅 Did you know we offer FREE reference values for women’s soccer, basketball, and ice hockey? These values, drawn from Firstbeat's big database, can help you see how your players compare to other pros and give you a head start in understanding their performance from day one. 📊 Reference values are available for these key Firstbeat metrics: • TRIMP • Training Effect • Movement Load • Movement Intensity Ready to learn more about your team’s performance? 📈 👉 Download the guides now: https://lnkd.in/dK7rGJkK #Firstbeat #WomenInSports #CoachingTips #SportsScience #PerformanceMetrics

💡 Did you know that as a Firstbeat Life professional client, you get access to our training sessions and clinics for free? In these concise 30-minute sessions, we dive into different topics that help you utilize physiological data effectively and build more impactful wellness services. We just updated our calendar, here are some of our upcoming events: • August 29th - Firstbeat Life ABCs - Getting Started • September 5th - Tips for Selling Firstbeat Life to Corporate Clients • September 11th - Tips for Personal Trainers - How to Take Full Advantage of Firstbeat Life • October 3rd - Utilizing Firstbeat Life in Group Projects and Coaching 👉 Visit our Firstbeat Partner Hub to sign up!

The autonomic nervous system reacts and regulates so many systems in our body. A conductor of our physiological orchestra, as Simon Shepard from Your Brain Health aptly describes it, is where the sympathetic nerves are activated at times of stress and demand, and the parasympathetic branches are key drivers for recovery and restoration.   When treating concussion patients, understanding and monitoring of autonomic nervous system can help on the road to recovery, and #firstbeatlife in assessing it.   Read more in the blog:  https://lnkd.in/gSSGDwdK