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What is TRIMP? How Sports Teams Use It to Optimize Training

First Beat

Originally developed by Dr. Eric Banister in 1991, TRIMP integrates exercise duration and intensity to provide a single numerical value that represents the physiological stress of a workout. TRIMP enables individualized load monitoring, allowing coaches to tailor sessions to an athletes physiological capacity.

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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. Submaximal Fitness Tests in Team Sports: A Theoretical Framework for Evaluating Physiological State. Why is HRR Important?

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Recent Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Explores the Role of Vitamin D and Aerobic Training in Type 2 Diabetes

Designs for Health

Biomarkers assessed included inflammatory cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and markers related to antioxidative status, glucose metabolism, and vitamin D status. . AT consisted of aerobic exercise for 20 to 40 minutes at 60% to 75% heart rate maximum at a frequency of three sessions per week.

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Recent Randomized Controlled Trial Explores Role of Selenium and Vitamin D in Thyroid Health

Designs for Health

The thyroid gland plays an important role in energy metabolism and the physiology of many of the body’s systems. Individuals between the ages of 18 and 70 (who were otherwise in good health) were assessed for vitamin D and selenium status. The thyroid gland can be particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

By my way of observation, this implication of skill development introduced and developed in a progressive and staged manner seems inherent in many fundamental movement skill assessment and teaching programs. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc). Adventure Education.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

This totally doesn’t explain whatever physiological/biological processes that needs to take place within the person in sync with its interaction of the world. The simple examples cited seems to point to the age-old issue of needing to know what you are teaching and assessing for confirmation.

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Firstbeat Sports at Kinduct and Xsens Sports Conference 2022

First Beat

Integrated with leading companies in the wearables, assessment and data collection sectors, AMS brings together analytics from a wide range of sources. Over 23,000 athletes representing over 1,000 teams around the world rely on Firstbeat Sports for their advanced physiological metrics.

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