Category: Updates

Milano Sanremo, is a classic.

A very tough and demanding race of 291KM (180.8 miles).

The winner (Vincenzo Nibali) won the 2018 edition in 7 hours and 18 minutes.

Below you can find the great performance of Mirco Paperino Maestri of Bardiani – CSF Pro Team. 
Analysis done using Selfloops by sport performance coach, Claudio Cucinotta.

We are happy to announce that our Apple Watch app now supports Concept2 rowers!

This means you can track distance, strides, calories, heart rate, pace and all the metrics of your workout while using a C2 rower with a PM5 monitor using an Apple Watch.

All your workouts are automatically uploaded to Selfloops after a session.

At Selfloops we have built an advanced platform that is used by pro cycling teams and athletes.

We help athletes and their staff to track and analyze their workouts, sessions and races.

The collaboration with pro athletes helps us improve. With their feedback we evolve our service. We add features and refine them based on their needs and requirements.

We have collaborated with the Androni Sidermec pro cycling team for a long time now. Below a picture of the team in an article in TuttoBici (March 2018 issue). Selfloops is highlighted in the red box.

A very good book by Matthew Walker explains why we sleep and the benefits of sleeping well and long enough (at least 8 hours/day).

From the Conclusions:

Within the space of a mere hundred years, human beings have abandoned their biologically mandated need for adequate sleep—one that evolution spent 3,400,000 years perfecting in service of life-support functions. As a result, the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our life expectancy, our safety, our productivity, and the education of our children.

This silent sleep loss epidemic is the greatest public health challenge we face in the twenty-first century in developed nations. If we wish to avoid the suffocating noose of sleep neglect, the premature death it inflicts, and the sickening health it invites, a radical shift in our personal, cultural, professional, and societal appreciation of sleep must occur.

I believe it is time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, without embarrassment or the damaging stigma of laziness. In doing so, we can be reunited with that most powerful elixir of wellness and vitality, dispensed through every conceivable biological pathway. Then we may remember what it feels like to be truly awake during the day, infused with the very deepest plenitude of being.

Twelve Tips for a Healthy Sleep

1. Stick to a sleep schedule. Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day
2. Exercise is great, but not too late in the day
3. Avoid caffeine and nicotine, before going to sleep
4. Avoid alcoholic drinks before bed
5. Avoid large meals and beverages late at night
6. If possible, avoid medicines that delay or disrupt your sleep
7. Don’t take naps after 3pm
8. Relax before bed
9. Take a hot bath before bed
10. Dark bedroom. No TV, tablets, smartphones.
11. Have the right sunlight exposure
12. Don’t lie in bed awake

Improve your wellbeing and health, read this very good book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker.

The entire website is now available in Spanish. For our growing community of Spanish speaking athletes and coaches around the World. Our smartphone applications are also available in Spanish.

If your browser is set to Spanish, you’ll automatically get the Spanish version of the website. You can always change the language settings in the website, in the user settings section.