How to upload Stress & Recovery measurement to Sports Cloud

Firstbeat Sports Stress and Recovery Monitoring allows you to get the full picture of an athlete’s physiological condition. Using cutting-edge analysis of Heart Rate Variability data recorded through the professional grade Bodyguard 2 device gives athletes a greater understanding of their own well-being and provides coaches a 360-degree understanding of their players. 

Read more about this feature from our blog post.

Set up Bodyguard plugin

Plug in the used Bodyguard device into computer USB-port.

Select “Upload from Bodyguard” from Sports Cloud and follow your browser specific guidance. For more installation instructions, see our guide here.

After the plugin have been installed successfully, the “Upload from Bodyguard” lets you proceed with the upload.

Selecting the athlete

Coaches select the athlete whom they want to upload the data. You can use the search feature for filtering. 

Using Athlete credentials automatically uploads the data on their own profile and skip this selection.

Selecting the measurements from Bodyguard

Information on the measurements that have been saved into Bodyguard are shown. Select the ones you want to load. If you're measurement has divided into multiple measurement sections, you can use the merge feature to attach them into one. After selecting OK, system processes the data for a short time.

Viewing the results

After the data analyzing, Dashboard view will have a new tab Stress & Recovery, on the data load days. You can see the quick information by selecting this tab as active, and open the report, by clicking the PDF-report icon.