Jacci Allanson - Exercise Physiologist and Ultra Runner
Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min · 9 segments
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Jackie AllensonGuest
Benn CoubroughHost
Mitch ClarkHost
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Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min · 9 segments
Jackie AllensonGuestBenn CoubroughHostMitch ClarkHost
And with your business, with Transcend Health, I suppose you're finishing your degree and your scope of getting into your field and running is the direction you went.
How is that correlated with your business and maybe the focus? Is that sort of scoped or shaped your business model and where you focus on? Or you can just tell us a bit more about your business.
Now, our idea was to help people to access exercise as part of health care.
And 10, 11 years ago, when I was just starting into this business, it was exercise physiology was still quite obscure.
And it still wasn't utilized as a first-line treatment in a lot of health conditions.
We've got nearly 10,000 exercise physiologists in Australia, so the profession's doubled.
And it's much more widely recognized where exercise can benefit people's health in disease prevention, in chronic pain management, and even into mental health.
So when I started the business, I suppose I always wanted to help runners in that sense as well because a lot of runners do the running and they'll do the stretching and they'll do the foam rolling and they'll go get a massage.
But the strength training component has always been something that, and I'm sure you see this as well, Ben, that there's not a lot of runners who do the strength training, who do the thing to build their tissue capacity so they can have bigger muscles and more resilient tendons.
So there always was this kind of undercurrent of wherever I can start to apply exercise to people's lives to make their lives better and unlock just things in life and in the world that they wouldn't have considered possible.
I want to make sure that people aren't restricted from living life because of weakness or pain or injury or disease or illness.
And it's, I think the, the description I like to use is like black magic because you do it and it kind of hurts when you do it, but what it actually does at the other side of it, it makes you more powerful, makes more things possible.
And with your business, with Transcend Health, I suppose you're finishing your degree and your scope of getting into your field and running is the direction you went.
How is that correlated with your business and maybe the focus? Is that sort of scoped or shaped your business model and where you focus on? Or you can just tell us a bit more about your business.
Now, our idea was to help people to access exercise as part of health care.
And 10, 11 years ago, when I was just starting into this business, it was exercise physiology was still quite obscure.
And it still wasn't utilized as a first-line treatment in a lot of health conditions.
We've got nearly 10,000 exercise physiologists in Australia, so the profession's doubled.
And it's much more widely recognized where exercise can benefit people's health in disease prevention, in chronic pain management, and even into mental health.
So when I started the business, I suppose I always wanted to help runners in that sense as well because a lot of runners do the running and they'll do the stretching and they'll do the foam rolling and they'll go get a massage.
But the strength training component has always been something that, and I'm sure you see this as well, Ben, that there's not a lot of runners who do the strength training, who do the thing to build their tissue capacity so they can have bigger muscles and more resilient tendons.
So there always was this kind of undercurrent of wherever I can start to apply exercise to people's lives to make their lives better and unlock just things in life and in the world that they wouldn't have considered possible.
I want to make sure that people aren't restricted from living life because of weakness or pain or injury or disease or illness.
And it's, I think the, the description I like to use is like black magic because you do it and it kind of hurts when you do it, but what it actually does at the other side of it, it makes you more powerful, makes more things possible.
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