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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. It’s been shown to have good correlations with changes in performance in endurance testing (Malone, et al., Why is HRR Important?

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Heart Rate & Resistance Training Re-imagined For Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

My muscle doesn’t know the difference if I’m digging in the yard, carrying heavy shopping bags, or lifting a dumbbell.” ( Source & Study ) What is going on inside the body during strength exercises? Notice the elastic bands in the partner drills, that provide leg resistance exercise, while also providing cardio conditioning.

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Treadmill Running Workouts For Students

PLT4M

Each tread workout will allow students to challenge themselves with different endurance, hills, sprints, and more! From there, Marguerite introduces and coaches students through new sets and challenges, also working on rest and recovery throughout! Students start each workout by getting warmed up on the treadmill.

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The Benefits of Gymnastics for Adults

The Sporting

Getting stronger with Gymnastics Gymnastics demands extraordinary power and endurance. Nonetheless, consistent gymnastics training can help you become more flexible and mobile, allowing you to do a variety of exercises. The coach is actively involved in participation in the class, which is not that common in other sports.

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Firstbeat Heart Rate Sensors with Straps vs Heart Rate Sensors with Vests – What’s the Difference?

First Beat

EPOC stands for Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption, and it reflects how far the body’s oxygen uptake is elevated from resting levels due to recovery needs after exercise. How do these differences in accuracy show up in the data results that coaches rely upon to support their decision-making?

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Micro-Cycle Periodization in Soccer – How to Structure the Game Week

First Beat

Preparing for each game is perhaps one of the most important considerations when coaches are planning their weekly training schedule, as they aim to arrive at game day with players as fresh as possible. Athlete Tapering FAQs All Endurance Coaches Need to Know. Training Peaks: Coach Blog. Soccer Journal, 57, 28–34.

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practical applications from neuroscience to coaching - developing 'thinking players'

Learning Through Sport

In this blog I look at some of the practical applications from neuroscience to coaching. Coaching can be thought of as seeking to influence habits. The 'mechanism' coaches can target to do this is player neuroplasticity. Coaches prime thinking Build requirements for player thinking from action goals to the context.