For the Long Run
Build your daily operating system for energy, recovery and wellbeing.
Jessica Spendlove
Eating well, moving often, sleeping more, managing stress – these basics aren’t a mystery. But how do you do it all? And keep doing it? What you need is a system that lasts; one that protects your energy, capacity and recovery, not just on your best days but also on your busiest ones.
Drawing on 15 years inside elite sport, military and corporate environments, Jessica Spendlove has distilled how to prioritise wellbeing and sustain high performance into a personalised daily operating system that fits your life.
It’s time to stop feeling exhausted, stop cycling through burnout and reset, and instead design an operating system that actually works for you.
For the Long Run is your guide to sustainable high performance – for today, tomorrow and decades to come.
About Jess
Jessica Spendlove is a leading authority on sustainable performance, wellbeing and nutrition. She is an international keynote speaker, podcast host and advisor.
Her mission is to help people and organisations achieve sustainable success, not at the expense of their health, but because of it. That mission is as personal as it is professional. While she has spent over 15 years inside elite sport, military and corporate environments helping others perform at the highest level, she has also experienced burnout firsthand, which ultimately cost her the thing she values most: her health.
Jessica began her career as a national swimming champion before going on to build and lead performance nutrition programs across seven professional sporting teams. She has worked with Olympic medallists, world champions and the special forces. With a Master’s in Nutrition and Dietetics, her work now sits at the intersection of science and real-world performance.
Today, she works with organisations including the ADF School of Special Operations, AirTree, YPO, PEXA, and Guzman y Gomez. She is an advisor to the Monash University Corporate Education Program and the host of the Stay at the Top podcast.
What's inside
For the Long Run is a science-backed guide to improve your wellbeing and sustain your performance by helping you get clarity on how you create and sustain energy, expand your capacity, and recover effectively.
It is centred around five daily rhythms: nutrition, exercise, stress and recovery, sleep and connection. Together they give you a framework to achieve sustainable performance.
Drawing on 15 years inside the most demanding performance environments, Jessica Spendlove has distilled what it actually takes to prioritise wellbeing and sustain high performance into a personalised operating system you can build, adapt and maintain – not just on your best days, but on your busiest.
Whether you are an individual who is tired of cycling through burnout and reset, a leader who wants to protect both your own performance and your team’s, or an organisation looking for a practical framework to improve organisational wellbeing and build a sustainable high performance culture – this book will give you the tools to do it.
What you'll learn
- Listen to what your body is really telling you about your energy and recovery
- Work with your biology using circadian and ultradian rhythms
- Build simple, consistent nutrition and exercise habits that compound over time
- Recover proactively and prevent burnout before it happens
- Adapt your system when travel, parenting, pressure and life get in the way
Engagingly written, For the Long Run is packed with real-world case studies, practical tools, and insightful strategies to help you, your team or your organisation prioritise wellbeing and achieve sustainable high performance today, tomorrow and for decades to come.
How to use this book
Think of For the Long Run as an operating system you return to, not a book you read once and put on a shelf.
You might be navigating a demanding stretch at work, trying to recover from years of running on empty, or preparing your leadership team for the year ahead. You might be starting from scratch or fine-tuning a system that is already mostly working.
It doesn’t matter where you are. This book meets you there. Come back to it when the season changes, the pressure shifts, today, tomorrow or for decades to come.
How to use this book
Think of For the Long Run as an operating system you return to, not a book you read once and put on a shelf.
You might be navigating a demanding stretch at work, trying to recover from years of running on empty, or preparing your leadership team for the year ahead. You might be starting from scratch or fine-tuning a system that is already mostly working.
It doesn’t matter where you are. This book meets you there. Come back to it when the season changes, the pressure shifts, today, tomorrow or for decades to come.
Keynote Speaker
Leverage the science, systems and strategies of sustainable high performance. With a mix of research and personal stories, Jessica shares practical tools to reset your wellbeing at work and in life, inspiring your team to perform at their best, not at the expense of their health, but because of it.
The framework inside For the Long Run is the same one Jessica brings to keynotes, leadership events and team workshops across Australia and internationally, working with large corporations and smaller teams alike.
If you want to bring this to your organisation or event as a keynote, workshop or program, use the form below.
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