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“Mediocre movement has become epidemic, and even worse, acceptable,” says Jessi Stensland, a professional triathlete and movement specialist. “Not coincidentally so has poor health, sub-par performance standards and chronic pain and injury in life and in sport. It became obvious to me that the problem was not the availability of solutions or the motivation to achieve. Instead, it was in our inability to choose and/or implement the proper and most efficient day to day solutions for optimal health and performance.”
It is for those reasons that Jessi has launched MovementU. The U stands both for university and making a U-turn toward innate human form and purposeful movement.
Stensland began her athletic career as a Division I swimmer for George Washington University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in exercise science. She surged into the sport of triathlon shortly after her graduation in 1998, and began her professional career in 2000. Her race record boasts twenty national and international wins.
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You can perform better. Photo courtesy of Jessi Stensland
In 2004, however, Jessi considered hanging up her lycra. With pain, injury, and fatigue, she felt that her body was breaking down and would not be able to return to optimal performance. Near her wits' end, she sought the help of performance specialists at Athletes' Performance and Core Performance and their creator Mark Verstegen, and discovered her own performance inefficiencies which led to her chronic injuries. Over twelve fast weeks, she learned to train efficiently and purposefully, and created a more resilient and injury-resistant body that excited her to begin racing, once again. Therefore, that year placing fourth and sixth amongst all American women at the U.S. Olympic Trials highlights her career.
As she continues to learn about how one can elicit positive performance results quickly and precisely, Jessi Stensland is excited to share MovementU, "a practical and interactive education-based resource consisting of a website and workshops," with all athletes at all levels.
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Performing better is not the result of more training hours, but the result of more efficient training. For example, if a runner is taught and trained to run without "extra" movements such as crunching his face, slapping his feet to the ground, and twisting at the waist, then he will become a faster and less winded runner. Those "extra" movements cause a runner to expend more energy than necessary and to be more susceptible to injury. MovementU teaches its participants to "prepare to perform".
This is not a training program, methodology, or system, but a launchpad for athletes of all levels to gain an understanding of their own movement mechanics and physiology, in order to train smarter and become more powerful, efficient, and injury-resistant.
About her experience, participant and mid-level triathlete, Margot Sharapova says, "No point in getting a new aero bicycle until my hip flexibility/pillar allow me to ride powerfully and efficiently in that position. I liked the idea that I decide what I get out of workouts by scrutinizing more what I put into them as far as technique."
Keith Cook, a coach for Solis Performance, said about the first workshop, "It is eye opening, challenging, but not difficult, and something that anyone can add to their routine/lifestyle...we were taught how to go back in time, re-think and were provided the tools to re-train our bodies, to performance efficiently and injury free."
Training with purpose has yielded positive results for all athletes and weekend warriors with faster times, and pain-free races. Jessi encourages athletes of any sport at all levels to do so by tapping their resources. A starting point can be MovementU.
Examiner.com readers may take advantage of the following discounts to the new MovementU workshops with the following codes:
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