Tuesday Tips: 5 Tips for Optimising Breathing During Exercise
Here are five top tips for optimising your breathing during exercise from Professor Alison McConnell, author of “Breathe Strong, Perform Better”
Tuesday Tip: 5 Tips for using the ithlete subjective metrics
You’ll get more from ithlete if you use the subjectives! By tracking and correlating the suggested subjective metrics you will be able to better understand what is influencing your stress and recovery levels. Here are our top tips for using the subjective indicators.
Tuesday’s Tips: Circadian rhythms
How important is routine and time of measurement when tracking heart rate variability? Very! And here is why…
Top tips for using your HRV sensor
The ithlete sensors are the best around, independently validated for accuracy, convenient and durable. Some users don’t get the hang of taking measurements right away, so to ensure you don’t waste any time follow the tip tips found here.
Tuesday Tip: What Deep Breathing does for Your Body
This week’s Tuesday Tip takes a closer look at what deep breathing can do for you and provides some helpful tips to help you practice
Tuesday Tip: Diaphragmatic Breathing
In this installment of our Tuesday Tip series we will focus on diaphragmatic breathing. A great habit for athletes to get into since it will help you take in lots of oxygen during exercise.
Tuesday Tip: Reducing Stress in the Workplace
Our recent research summary focused on the investigation of how work affected individuals in both psychological & physiological respects. In addition, the full research paper from the University of Queensland, Australia shared some useful tips to reduce workplace stress which we have summarised for this weeks Tuesday Tip
Tuesday Tip: The Real Impact of Travelling
This weeks Tuesday Tips takes a look at the real impact of travel with some steps to help avoid the stress of travel
Tuesday Tip: Event Day Nerves & HRV
Race day arrives but your ithlete score is amber. Familiar? Don’t panic! Here’s why that might be happening and some useful tips to help you balance it out ahead of the race.
Tuesday Tip: Sleep deprivation
Many of us operate on less sleep than we would like (up to 1/3rd according to the American Sleep Disorders Association), but how many of us realize the impact sleep deprivation is having on our health and on our ability to enjoy life?
Tuesdays Tip: Using multiple devices to interact with your ithlete Pro data
Our Tuesday Tip this week looks at getting the most out of your ithlete Pro data using multiple devices.
Tuesdays Tip: Data management, and third party integration
This weeks Tuesday Tips continues on the ithlete Pro theme but focusing on data management across multiple devices, and integrating third party data into your ithlete Pro timeline.
Tuesday Tip: Safe, synched & insightful data with ithlete Pro
Today’s Tuesday Tip focuses on looking at the advantages of cloud-based data storage with ithlete Pro
Tuesday Tip: The ithlete Pro™ Training Guide
The ithlete Pro™ Training Guide is a unique new chart showing your current physical state in two dimensions, recovery and activation, and is the next focus of our Tuesday Tips series.
Tuesday Tip: Using the ithlete Pro Timeline
Over the next four weeks we’re going to take a more in depth look at the main features of ithlete Pro in the form of Tuesday Tips. This week we’re starting with the interactive timeline.
Tuesday Tip: The importance of sleep
Sleep & Recovery Recovery is essential in any training programme and sleep is arguably the most important element of recovery. As most athletes know you don’t get fitter during workouts but actually when your body recovers, rebuilding and super compensating to get...Tuesday Tip: Record your training load
Why record training load with ithlete? It is strongly recommended athletes record training load in ithlete to add depth and meaning to their heart rate variability (HRV) data. Recovering from a hard session? Recording training load can often explain daily ithlete...Tuesday Tip: Using and maintaining your HRM strap
Many athletes use a heart rate monitor (HRM strap) during exercise to monitor the intensity of their training. We often assume this is a ‘fit and forget’ accessory, but there seems to be a lack of useful tips for use and care of the strap itself. With particular...Tuesday Tip: Breathing affects heart rate variability
Breathing and heart rate are intrinsically linked Heart rate (HR) varies with breathing, as you breathe in HR speeds up, as you breathe out HR slows. This is known as Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA for short). This is also why deep/slow breathing is linked with...Tuesday Tip: Time of measurement
Time of measurement We recommend taking your ithlete heart rate variability (HRV) reading first thing in the morning, preferably right after waking. There are a number of reasons behind this recommendation… Following a full night of rest It’s a well-known fact that...Time of measurement
Time of measurement We recommend taking your ithlete heart rate variability (HRV) reading first thing in the morning, preferably right after waking. There are several reasons behind this recommendation… Following a full night of rest It’s a well-known fact that the...Heart Rate Variability and Health Part 3 – Workplace Stress
Summarising a very interesting piece of research looking at how work affects individuals in both psychological and physiological respects.
ithlete FAQs
ithlete FAQs – what will you need, getting started, interpreting data & troubleshooting.
5 ways to improve Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is an excellent measure of overall health and fitness. Upward trends have consistently been shown to correlate with increases in health, fitness and sporting performance. So how do you get your baseline rising?
How to use HRV in sports training Part 3
Recovery Strategies Sleep. Not only quantity, but quality is important. Human growth hormone which is essential for body repair, is mostly produced during the first four hours of sleep, and these turn out to be the most critical hours for recovery. Alcohol, caffeine,...How to Increase your Exercise Safely
Whether it’s a new years resolution or you’re returning to your training regime after the obligatory festive break, an increase in exercise and/or intensity needs to be carefully thought out to ensure you get the best out of every workout or training session.This post...Can your HRV Number be too High? Here’s the Research
Our latest research summary focuses on two studies from Yann Le Meur who sheds some light on how and when parasympathetic overreaching occurs.
Nutrition, Stress and HRV
This week’s Tuesday Tip focuses on nutrition the impact on stress. Do you reach for those ‘convenience foods’ after a stressful day? If so take a look at some useful nutritional tips we’ve put together
HRV: My Key to Longevity in Ironman Training by Brian Schwind
Brian Schwind provides some helpful tips from how he uses his heart rate variability in his daily training.
Naps, Sleep and Sports Performance
Taking a look at how elite professional soccer teams, amongst others, are prescribing naps to improve performance and make marginal gains.