Outside Learn

Learn from the world’s best athletes, explorers, and wellness experts with premium online courses for all levels. Outside Learn has more than 2,000 videos across 450 lessons, covering topics ranging from fitness and nutrition to running and cycling to survival and gear repair.

Presenting Outside Learn, our just-launched online education hub loaded with instructional courses for beginners and veterans alike. Outside Learn has more than 2,000 videos covering 450 lessons, on topics ranging from fitness and nutrition to running and cycling to survival and gear repair. And the entire library is available to Outside+ members.

Our goal with Outside Learn is simple: make trying a new sport less intimidating and more convenient. After all, learning new skills can literally change your life, something I gleaned from longtime Outside contributor Tom Vanderbilt, author of Beginner: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning, a chronicle of his midlife quest to tackle surfing, drawing, singing, and juggling, among other novel pursuits. “Learning something new is one of the simplest ways to radically expand your sense of self,” he told me in an episode of the Outside Podcast last year. “The brain is a novelty-seeking machine and we all have great capabilities that are sometimes lying dormant.”