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Owning your own time – is it realistic?

Pekka Pohjakallio - Head of Global AccountsThe holiday season
was wonderful. My calendar did not beep for alerts. There was no email
overflow. It felt like I owned my own time. Now I’m back at work and back to
the old normal.People complain about being busy and having overlapping meetings. Emails
are filling our idle time. And most of t

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Low back pain is hurting your company.

Jonathan Graham - Performance CoachLow back pain is
the leading cause of absence from work and recognised as the leading cause of
disability worldwide. In the United States, an estimated 149 million
workdays are lost every year because of low back pain, with total
costs estimated from 100-200 billion dollars. Furthermore, it is

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How performance coaching works.

Anna-Marie Watson - Performance CoachPerformance
coaching is a science and an art. It’s a blend of cutting-edge technology with
deeper philosophical concepts. These quantifiable and qualitative
characteristics reach holistically across the six elements of our Circle of Better
Life model. This ensures every single Hintsa coaching ex

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Can you ‘stress-proof’ yourself with exercise?

James Hewitt - Performance
ScientistMany of us try to
dissolve the worries of the day in a pool of sweat on the treadmill or
spin-bike, but growing evidence supports the idea that exercise can have a more
long-lasting impact on our capacity to cope with stress.Stress can be emotional, physical or psychological, but our body
responds in a similar w

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3 Easy steps to improve your physical activity next year

“More haste, less
speed” is a proverb that has been around for years, meaning if you try to do
things too quickly, it will take you longer in the end. As we all know, this is
very true in life, but also in physical activity. How many times have you
sought to complete a project at home or work as fast as possible only to make
mistakes a

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What really affects your health – genes or routines?

By Pippa Luakka - Medical DirectorHealth takes
different colours at various stages of human life. A child laughing and playing
in the yard with his dungarees on, a person in his working age performing his
long road cycling route and a senior citizen climbing the stairs to his
apartment without any aids are all examples of health.Health as an
ever-

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What is the key to sustainable high performance?

“What is the key to sustainable high
performance?” asked Hintsa’s Chief Innovation Officer, James Hewitt, as he
addressed the audience during the Nordic
Business Forum conference. “We’re never resting. We
rarely focus. We can’t always be ‘on’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIAoZDGq-

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What is the best diet?

As a nutritionist
to Formula 1 drivers, an important part of my work is to get clients to their
optimal weight. ‘Optimal’ is the key focus here. I am not interested in getting
drivers as light as physically possible, despite there being some competitive
advantages to this. I am focused on getting them as healthy as possible with
the ri

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Rise (and fall?) of the ‘Superboss’

By James Hewitt
Performance ScientistDo ultra-running CEOs and IronMan MDs represent the ideal for health and performance? At Hintsa, we have the privilege to work with a wide range of clients, across a spectrum of activity levels, from elite athletes to office workers. We regularly talk about the benefits of physical activity and encourage a

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Plan the work, work the plan – why you should plan training

At the 2016 Olympic
Games in Rio this summer, we witnessed some incredible achievements by the
world’s best athletes. These performances are of course not down to luck, but
years of training, planning and competing to get to that one point where you
need to deliver the optimal performance.One of the sayings that I have heard a number of time