ithlete and its role in a great athlete-coach relationship
by Jan Birkmyre It would be easy to measure the success of a coach-athlete relationship in terms of wins and PB’s but the truth is that those are the outputs of a very complex process. For me, a...
View ArticleData informing the training process – but don’t forget the context!
Long time ithlete user Coach Chris Kilmurray recently shared these insights on Twitter. This is an excellent example of how many coaches use ithlete as an overview of how the athlete is coping with...
View ArticleHRV, Life Stress and Training
by Janet Birkmyre ithlete’s HRV measurement turns training data into intelligence – it adds value by personalising data that (while being based on solid research) is otherwise too generic to allow for...
View ArticleHow To Handle An Unexpected ithlete HRV Reading
by Jan Birkmyre Thanks to ithlete I have been tracking my heart rate variability (HRV) via a reading taken every morning since 2012. It is so much a part of my routine these days that it sets the tone...
View ArticleHRV and Covid – Training during and after infection
Introduction During the early part of the pandemic, in June 2020, ithlete won a grant to try and determine whether or not changes in daily HRV could be used to detect the onset and subsequent severity...
View ArticleUnderstanding your Acute to Chronic Training Load Ratio
Do you know how to safely and objectively increase your training load? ithlete Pro provides a very useful analysis of your recent training history, using an indicator known as the ‘Acute to Chronic...
View ArticleHRV and Understanding Illness
Using ithlete to measure HRV and predict or understand illness and guide a return to training by Janet Birkmyre I suppose that most of us will have thought a little more about the effects of viral...
View ArticleHRV and Covid – an ithlete user’s perspective
Covid is still in the news, but mostly because of the revelations about Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. Otherwise, you might get the impression that Covid has gone away. I work in the NHS. Until a...
View ArticlePerfecting the pre-race taper with HRV
Tapering is a period of reduced training leading up to an endurance sports event, with the goal of maximizing performance. The principles of tapering are: A gradual reduction in the volume and...
View ArticleHRV and Menopause
HRV and menopause by Janet Birkmyre Looking back, I can remember a 50+ track cyclist telling me “It all changes and becomes so much more difficult after 50”. I did not think too much on it at the...
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