Review of Strava – An Online Training Tool and Community

With the explosion of social media more and more niche communities and tools are sprouting up that allow you to share your workouts with others online.

I Personally love these kinds of tools and communities for a number of reasons:

1. I like having my training and workout information online, so I can access it from multiple locations and devices.
2. Making something public (like your training or a specific challenge) reinforces most peoples desire to not fail, increasing the likelihood that you aren’t going to miss sessions and let things slide.
3. Niche communities in particular allow for interaction with others, participating in similar activities. This allows you to share workout ideas and compare your performance against others, which further adds to that sense of motivation to out-do someone else and not let them out-do you.

I currently use 2 main sites: Strava (which I am convering here) and Garmin Connect. The following article is a personal review of Strava, which in my opinion is massively under marketed at the moment given its functionality and the opportunity.