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The Commodification of Breath: Parsing Fact from Fiction in the Gilded Age of Breathwork and Breathing Influencers

AASP

Optimize your breathing with secret techniques used by Navy SEALs, elite athletes, and breathwork gurus… ideally by purchasing their book, hiring them as a “breath coach,” or investing in premium nocturnal mouth tape (“buy 3 get two free for $74.99”). Their solution? We have officially commodified breathing. The breath is powerful, of course.

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Why Implement Fitness Testing in Elite Sport? A Breakdown for Coaches

First Beat

Other Factors to Consider A New and Easy Way to Conduct Fitness Testing Firstbeat Fitness Testing Reporting Explained Assessment and monitoring of physiological qualities is an important part of any fitness coach’s work, and is beneficial for a number of reasons within the context of enhancing athlete performance.

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Helping Student Athletes Avoid Vaping

SHAPE America

The effects of vaping on youth is a focus for researchers, youth sports coaches, federal government agencies, and the media. A review of published literature focusing on the effects vaping on athletes noted that routine e-cigarette use may have an impact on cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. Study the opposition. Study the film.

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New Heart Rate Recovery Feature from Firstbeat Sports Provides More Insights for Coaches

First Beat

The new Heart Rate Recovery (HRR) feature from Firstbeat Sports provides an additional tool for coaches to assess the status of their athletes, giving further insights into conditioning and recovery status. 2016); an individual with greater cardiovascular fitness is able to recovery quicker than someone of lower fitness.

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Time to Get Off the Couch Again

Montessori Physical Education

Always the weapon of choice for anything punitive, my football coaches did not hold back. However, during my studies It was not lost upon me that cardiovascular exercise was important. Used primarily as a character builder through the perseverance of sheer torture, running at the end of practice was the bane of my existence.

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In Season Strength Training

PLT4M

As coaches, we all want to win. Time on the field is already training repetitive, sub maximal power movements, muscular and cardiovascular conditioning, as well as sport-specific energy demands. We implore our athletes to spend the off-season training to become bigger, faster, stronger. This is dangerous.

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Using Firstbeat Sports Training Effect During Return-to-Play

First Beat

So by matching normal training demands, we can minimize any such losses, or even use this time as an opportunity to develop VO2max by increasing cardiovascular demands during a time when normal musculoskeletal demands are potentially reduced. The post Using Firstbeat Sports Training Effect During Return-to-Play appeared first on Firstbeat.