“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
-Virginia Woolf
Post written by Patrick McCrann. Follow me on Twitter.
After much writing, I am please to announce that the FREE version of my endurance lifestyle guide is now ready for you: A Practical Handbook to Living the Fit Life.
I have been hard at work on the official this-is-for-sale-version (you can pre-order it here), but I wanted to get something that was insanely useful out to help spread the word. Plus, since it’s free I could cover some of the topics that I have gotten some great feedback on via the blog and my Twitter account.
This ebook will help you with:
- Focusing your training to eliminate junk miles
- Making training fun again
- Building a basic training week
- Outlining a proper nutrition plan
- Simplifying your schedule, your work, and overall life to reduce stress
The ebook is 100% FREE and I encourage you to please send it on to your friends and family…anyone you think might benefit from the message.
Here’s a listing of the chapters:
0: Welcome, About You, Our Mission
* The Mission of Endurance Lifestyle Design
* Why Design A Fit Life?
* About Me
1: Planning from the Ground Up
* Endurance Planning Is Broken
* The Problem of Periodization
* A Bulletproof Three-Step Planning Process
* Your Task: Re-think Your Annual Plan
2: Focus on Fun & Challenging Activities
* Planning to Race
* Identifying Your Cool Factor
* Adding Events to Your “Real” Season
* Re-Thinking Post-Race
* Your Task: Find Three Fun & Challenging Events for your Season
3: Create A Basic Training Week
* Planning Is Sexy; Execution Is Progress
* Basic Week = Basic Unit of Time
* Managing Event Requirements & Your Life
* Integrate, Don’t BalanceSpecial Case Scenarios
* Your Task: Outline your Basic Week
4: Integrated Nutrition & Recovery Plans
* Nutrition: Eating for Performance, What Are “Poor” Food Choices?, Basic Guidance, Tricks, Tweaks and an Eating Holiday
* Recovery: Planning to Fail…Unspectacularly, Learning To Listen, The RAP Sheet
* Your Tasks
5: Well-Organized External Commitments
* The Personal Sphere: Go online, start outsourcing, build “focus” periods.
* The Professional Sphere: Avoid email, stop meeting madness, “create” don’t just do.
6: Further Reading
If you register for my newsletter, you’ll get the FREE ebook as well as my Fit Life email series and regular email blasts from me with handy lifestyle design tips and advice. You can sign up for the newsletter and get your copy of the ebook here. If you just prefer the straight ebook, then don’t let me stand in your way: Download the Practical Handbook to Living the Fit Life here.
I sincerely hope this ebook helps you get focused and on track to making a lifestyle that complements the many diverse things you do.
Best,
Patrick
Hi, I'm Patrick McCrann. 
