Case Wellness Specialist & Acupressure Massage Mat
#Stress & Recovery
2 weeks ago I had a chance to attend the Institute of Functional Medicine’s annual international conference in San Diego, where the theme was innovative movement and restorative strategies. Firstbeat’s…
Applying Supercompensation in Life: How to Turn Stress into Resources?
#Stress & Recovery
Is it dangerous when your resources are decreasing? Resources decrease, if recovery is not sufficient in relation to stress.
Let’s Drink to That! Reflections and Findings on Alcohol and Recovery
#Stress & Recovery
Different cultures have different drinking habits. Let’s take a closer look at those of Finnish people. According to statistics, an average Finn older than 15 years consumed 11.2 litres of…
Reflections and Insights on Recovery – Quality over Quantity
#Stress & Recovery
In some of my blogs I’ve discussed the personal lessons that Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment reports have taught me over the years: exercise in the evening delays my sleep recovery significantly…
Facts About Sleep: “Night is a Picture Painted with Daily Choices”
#Stress & Recovery
The basic elements of well-being can be grouped into three main categories: exercise, rest and nutrition. The technology provided by Firstbeat focuses on the exercise and rest categories to offer…
How to Gain Maximum Benefits From Your Team’s Winter Break
#Sports Coaching
The break allows the teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players to recover from their demanding schedule.
Research: Is Subjective Stress Associated with Objectively Measured Stress?
#Stress & Recovery
Tiina Föhr M.Sc. in health sciences/sports medicine, physiotherapist Currently writing her doctoral thesis on the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and work stress with special reference to heart rate variability…
Eye-Openers and Insights from Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment Results
#Stress & Recovery
Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment is typically a 3-day measurement during daily life, at work and during leisure time and sleep, with the idea of looking where no one has looked before…
Back to Work! Post-Holiday Reflections
#Corporate Wellness
Firstbeat’s Exercise Physiologist & Master Trainer Tiina Hoffman reflects on her summer holiday, having just returned to work after a 4-week holiday.
Measuring Training Load and Recovery on a Training Camp – Part 2: How Does Training Hard Affect Recovery?
#Sports Coaching
Hurdler Ida Aidanpää-Immonen presents data she got from conducting measurements with the Firstbeat Bodyguard device during a training camp at Tenerife.
Monitoring Training Load and Recovery on a Training Camp – Part 1: Active Recovery
#Sports Coaching
Hurdler and Firstbeat’s Key Account Manager Ida Aidanpää-Immonen presents how her body recovers during a training camp in Tenerife.
Listen to Your Body – Also on Sundays
#Exercise and Fitness
Sundays are generally seen as days in which we athletes “take it easy”, but for me the day doesn’t differ from any other weekday.