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…
Research: Is Subjective Stress Associated with Objectively Measured Stress?
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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…
Firstbeat on the Road – My Travel Blog
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I wore the Firstbeat Bodyguard during a trip from Finland to the UK, including the travel day and a day on the exhibition floor at Health and Wellbeing at Work 2015 conference.
In a Jungle of Lifestyle Guidelines, It Can Be Hard to See the Forest from the Trees…
There are a lot of do’s and don’ts, and sometimes it seems that you can find a study that makes almost everything unhealthy.
Healthy Lifestyle is Crucial in Shift Work
#Corporate Wellness
Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment database suggests that especially during the night’s sleep a shift worker’s recovery is significantly reduced.
Firstbeat on the Road: My Travel Log
#Corporate Wellness
If we want to feel well and perform at a high level, good sleep, sufficient exercise, healthy food, and some enjoyable “non-stress time” daily and weekly are pretty good guidelines to follow in our normal daily life, as well as on the road!
Searching for Adequate Goals
#Exercise and Fitness
The Lifestyle Assessment report is like a window to your body’s physiology and the factors affecting it. The most crucial matter is how the information is utilized.
A Dream to Reality: Climbing Mount Everest
#Stress & Recovery
Johanna Gustafsson had been dreaming about climbing Mount Everest since she was a child. Many people dream about this adventure but for Johanna, it ended up being more than a…
Life Is Too Short to Be Lived in a Rush
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After a hot summer and the summer holiday season, it is time to head back to work and face our everyday routines and schedules. Fall is the time of new…
Team Firstbeat at the Rokua Geopark Challenge
#Exercise and Fitness
At the beginning of July Team Firstbeat participated the biggest annual adventure competition in Finland, the Rokua Geopark XTREME 24h Challenge.
A Few Thoughts about Summer Holidays, Orienteering and the Continuous Balancing Act…
#Corporate Wellness
The summer holiday is a great time to charge the batteries, catch up on sleep, forget about tight schedules and to-do’s and let the phone and computer take a rest.