Microbreak Recovery During the Workday – Manage Workload Remotely and in the Office
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It is alarming that many employees do not recover during the work day at all. In continuous work, the body and mind are easily overloaded, which, in turn, increases load and fatigue. Therefore,…
Manual Exercise Input: Fill the Gaps in an Athlete’s Training History for Accurate Data
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The new Manual Exercise Input feature ensures your longitudinal monitoring doesn’t miss a beat. Even when you can’t capture session data (maybe an athlete is with their national team or…
Video Recommendations: How to Turn Your Health Insights into Actions
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Making healthy choices in everyday life isn’t always easy. And, as individuals, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s where personal health data and recommendations from the Firstbeat Life corporate wellness solution…
Movement Load: Profiling Athletes and Their Individual Characteristics
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In my previous blog, Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data, I discussed the general principles behind Movement Load, what it is, and how it can be used…
How to Navigate the Holidays with a Sense of Recovery Instead of Stress
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2020 or 2021 are not like most years, even when it comes to the Holiday Season – reading through my previous holiday blogs made it very clear that my message…
I Sleep Enough so Why Does Daytime Recovery Matter?
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Taking breaks during work and having moments of daytime recovery have been raised as key wellness topics recently, especially due to the challenges surrounding increased remote working. And with good…
Monitoring Training Load Among Goalkeepers on the Rise
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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…
Movement Load: Add Valuable Context to Internal Load Data
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Movement Load metric allows you to quantify the movement of your athletes using the Firstbeat Sports platform. But what exactly is Movement Load? What should you do with information it…
Firstbeat Life Update: Improvement in Automatic Sleep Detection
We have made improvements to our sleep recognition logic. If a sleeping period is missing from the journal entries for some nights, the app will now recognize this automatically. This…
Firstbeat Life Update: Notes for Results That Need Extra Attention
We have made improvements to our analysis and added notes in the Firstbeat Life app about ‘Continuous overload’ and ‘Health check recommendations’ based on measurement results. Please note that you…
Firstbeat Life Corporate Wellness Solution – FAQ
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Firstbeat Life is our cutting-edge subscription-based corporate wellness solution and the new way to support physical and mental well-being. Since its arrival and our Virtual Launch event, there has been a lot of interest and questions about the new…
Are You Increasing or Decreasing Your Body’s Resources?
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We face a lot of different stressors throughout the day. Feeling hurried, general stress, mental and social pressure, a constant flow of stimuli, physical load, and unhealthy lifestyle habits all…