Your Endurance Lifestyle. Redesigned.

Chock full of advice on rest cycles, hydration strategies, and equipment options, these articles often fall far short of having any real impact on the reader. Why? Because the overwhelming majority of triathlon training articles are addressed to individuals…and real change takes more than 8 very well formatted paragraphs with a picture of some ripped abs.

I was reminded of the power of community when I read a recent blog post on entitled “The Abundance Mindset.” In this piece, the author describes the phenomenon of giving means getting…a karmic way to get what you want by giving away some of what you have. Never have enough time? Give some of yours away by volunteering. Always short on money? Donate some to a worthy cause. You can read the full blog post after the jump: http://zenhabits.net/2009/02/how-to-create-the-abundance-mindset/

Profound advice for sure; especially in a world/culture where we spend so much time and effort working to get what we want. It’s powerful to think that in some cases, doing more/working harder/etc has very little to do with achieving our desired outcome. And that sometimes our desired outcome isn’t actually what we really wanted in the first place.

Give A Man A Fish, He’ll Eat for A Day.
Teach A Man to Fish, He’ll Eat for A Lifetime.
Let A Man Teach Others to Fish…Everybody Wins.

The team vibe inside the Endurance Nation community is very strong despite the fact that we are spread across the globe and more time zones than cogs on your rear cassette. Our community-driven focus on learning and fitness empowers everyone from the Kona-qualifier to the total Noob to actively share their experiences and learn from the tribe.

As the modified quote above describes, the act of teaching others what you have learned is what makes you smarter. Sharing with others what makes you fasters means they’ll share back with you. Giving away your nutrition tips means someone will return the favor with some of their own advice. And even more powerful is the open dialogue around that topic, the shared discourse that leads to everyone learning something new. That is essence of the EN community.

We’ve had instances before where members didn’t want to share power files from races, for example, because they considered the other members of EN to be “competitors.” This me first mentality is part of a self-crafted illusion of strength. Drawing in your resources and knowledge certainly feels like an advantage…but it can’t compete with a 400+ person community that is dynamically training and learning together.

You don’t need to be part of Team EN to experience this powerful vibe (although the 30-Day FREE trial is tempting!) — feel free to build your own tribe within your own circles. Take a minute to review what has really helped you up your endurance game. Write it down and then share it with some of your friends and training partners.

Don’t ask for anything…just tell them you wanted to share what you’ve learned. Your friends will be more likely to read this than that random article by that expert magazine guy. Even if it takes a while for you to “get back” what you’ve given, remember that capturing and outlining your knowledge in a way that others can learn from is a very powerful way for you to re-interpret what you already know.

Maybe it’s not all about you after all.

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