Jessi Stensland - Adventures in Endurance Performance

Interview // Fitrilla: The Fitness Entrepreneur

A very cool interview conducted by MovementU alum Geo Rockwell.  Fitrilla is his website. He focuses on advice for entrepreneurs, specifically those in the fitness industry.  We discuss a number of things on the business end of things including my experience as an athlete and entrepreneur and the crossover between the two in building a brand, getting sponsorship, creating a workshop, marketing and the bottomline:

LIVE YOUR PASSION
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH GREAT PEOPLE
GET EDUCATED
GET PREPARED

AND

GET AFTER IT

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It begins...

Landing sponsors like Under Armour and TRX have their perks, but it starts with building a brand around yourself.  You must be living and breathing your passion.

Jessi Stensland is an amazing endurance athlete.  She has competed in the Olympic trials and has raced professionally around the world.

Along with her successful endurance career she has developed a seminar to help athletes move, feel and perform better called MovementU.  Learn how she developed the course and her brand in the interview below…

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Interview // Zen and the Art of Triathlon

Checked in with ZenTri before XTERRA World Championships to talk about my new affinity for adventures in off-road racing, similarities and differences to road racing, a few of my favorite movements I include in my workouts and how they are applicable to multisport performance, among other things...enjoy!

MovementU founder Jessi Stensland tells us all about her training and racing that got her to the XTERRA World Championships in Maui.  She is a former pro triathlete and fantastic example of how great form and smart training can make you awesome.

Join in as we talk about how to race off-road and she shares many training tips that we all could use.  After that, we have a ton of my own training tips as I take you with my on my many adventures.

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Podcast // The Fitness Buff Show

This morning Pete Williams and I discussed what goes down at MovementU, my Aha! moment with movement, going pro in triathlon and more.

Pete Williams, the co-author of Core Performance Endurance and host of The Fitness Buff Show writes:

Pro endurance athlete and movement specialist Jessi Stensland joins us to talk proper movement, something many endurance athletes lack. Jessi knows firsthand how a triathlete's body can be worn down to the point of giving up the sport. She reached that point eight years ago before Mark Verstegen and the folks at Athletes' Performance showed her how to train to move efficiently and powerfully while becoming more resistant to injury. Now she shares this knowledge at MovementU in a series of active seminars around the county, including one in Melbourne, Florida on June 25-26.

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Interview // Zen and the Art of Triathlon

Love ZenTri's style - as do a lot of people I continue to be told!  Highly recommend tuning in if you haven't yet.  In this current podcast we talk about many, many things, including why and how to hold your form together til the end.  In performance you must make the path of least resistance the proper one.  You've gotta have the will not just to do it, but to do it right.  Hope you enjoy!  Apparently these guys did:

Hello Jessi,

I was on a 5 hr drive, listening to Zen and the Art of Triathlon podcast and heard that you were going to be in Winnipeg!!!! WOOT WOOT!! I'm sooo excited and just registered. I was trying to find a way to get to Brett's clinic in January but just couldnt make it happen...so super happy that you will be in Winnipeg :-)

Cheers,

RB from Winnipeg

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From Twitter:  @buckjoe: Agreed! The @ZenTriathlon interview with @JessiStensland on last podcast is epic! Thx for all the killer info!!
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Join in for a fantastic interview with form pro Jessi Stensland and exclusive audio from running the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile ultramarathon.

Jessi talks with us about how to train better by holding good form for as long as possible.  It's a great training method that can make you faster, stronger, and prevent injuries.

The Rocky Raccoon 100 took 26 hours of non-stop running to complete.  Listen in for details on how to pace and eat to keep going during an ultramarathon.

We are also lucky to have audio from the making of Team Feat's RAAM training video.  Thanks, guys!

And of course, there's much more fun inside the show, with audio from Paul Crik and Triboomer.

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Interview // Rock Star Triathlete Academy

Aside from a quite rambling intro on my part, we field some very pointed performance questions.  Topics included:

Swimming Form
Running Form
Glute Strengthening Exercises
Backward Lunges and Adductor Pain
and more...

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Interview // ZenTriathlon + MovementU

This is a treat.  I met Coach Brett of Zen and The Art of Triathlon a couple weeks ago in La Jolla before I moved out here to Boulder.  Then he made it out here on a family vacation and we connected for this interview.  We met at the Fairview HS track where all of the best runners in town come to crush it (Chrissie Wellington was running laps around us during the interview - amazing.)  

It's an active interview where we discuss some basics about MovementU philosophies and their relationship to triathlon and then Brett throws out there some of the issues he's dealing with at the moment specifically of the piriformis and shoulder kind.  Listen in as we discuss and talk about moving well!!

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Interview // TriTopics Podcast

Spoke to Chris Elmore last week - creator of a great new site called TriTopics which includes a weekly podcast of all things triathlon.  When I asked how long the interview would be he said, "Could be 5 minutes.  Could be 20 minutes.  Depends how chatty we are."  It lasted 54 minutes!  Not sure how much made it into the podcast, but suffice it to say, we spoke about a lot of things.  Good times. 

Thanks for having me Chris and for your interest and support of MovementU!

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Interview // The Stay Tuned Report

It was a pleasure having Brian Brode both as an Ironman athlete and as a journalist at MovementU in Dallas earlier this month.  He wrote about his account here for the Examiner and now has  created a very cool insider's perspective from the workshop with audio sound bites and all in his latest Stay Tuned Report: Episode 59 on 12/23/09. Thank you Brian!  [Wow - I'm still talking too fast at times.  How do you all keep up with me?  I can't even keep up with me!]

Here's the skinny:

This is an insiders view of professional endurance athlete Jessi Stensland's MovementU day-long clinic.  Listen as Jessi teaches how to prepare muscles for injury-free performance. 

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Radio Interview // The Simon Gowen Triathlon Show

Got in studio with Simon Gowen and Tim Bomba (both members of LA Tri Club, triathletes,  among MANY other things) earlier this month.  The show was a blast.  Talked about how the principles of MovementU will make Simon the athlete he knows he can be!! I tried to keep up with their wit, but it was tough...I'm working on it!  

It was a treat to find out that Born To Run author Christopher McDougall was on the show as well.  I'm currently reading his book and I'm in awe of how he has articulated some very very important points when it comes to the body, how it moves and its natural born application to running.  Fun chatting it up over the airwaves!! 

To listen to the program click HERE.

Interview // What is MovementU?

Thanks Pete Williams for having me on The Fitness Buff Show!! It's the first official interview I've done about MovementU...and no one better to do it with.  Pete is the co-author of Core Performance, knows where I'm coming from, knows where I'm going with it and therefore asked great questions that I feel really capture the essence of the MovementU movement.

From the website:

Professional endurance athlete and movement specialist Jessi Stensland has created a powerful new series of workshops designed for endurance athletes to move and perform better. Jessi has been mentored by Mark Verstegen and his Core Performance staff for five years and is now applying that powerful program, along with her own experience, into a day-long workshop for endurance athletes. She shares that program with us in this show.

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