Technical Tips
Advice
The optima-life team has worked in a number of sporting, corporate, healthcare and occupational health environments and is happy to advise you on how to optimise the use ot Firstbeat Sport software. It is important to our team that you are completely at ease using the products and that you are getting the best out of them. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries or issues and we will be delighted to help.
Optimising performance and recovery is an ongoing process. Optima-life and Firstbeat Technolgies would welcome feedback from you so that we can continue to provide you with the very best products and services.
In this section you will find information about the process, how to collect and download software how it works and software compatibility. But remember, if you have any queries do contact us.
Email: info@optima-life.com
Collection of Data
Data can be collected using a variety of devices:
- Suunto Memory Belt
- Watches - CS600, RS800, RS800D RS800G3 Polar Vantage
- SuuntoTeam Pod
Downloading Data
Minimum system requirements are:
- Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista
- 512MB RAM
- Intel Pentium III or AMD 1GHz
- Hard disk drive free space - 50MB
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later
Analysis
Optima-life using Firstbeat looks closely at measuring both heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV).
It is quite possible to have a low resting pulse but also one that demonstrates minimal heart rate variability – this is a highly significant indicator of poor recovery and an increasing amount of research suggests that chronic dampening of variability is an indicator of adverse health.
Using Firstbeat software the data can be analysed and from it physiological modeling of stress, exercise and recovery can be shown in a number of reporting formats.
