Perspectives on the sport. Written by our Athletes, and our Founders.
Playing in the pack taught me that work capacity, the ability to do repeated hard work and keep going, is trainable, specific and separate from raw fitness, and it is exactly what...
I stopped training like a rugby player and got fitter because I traded heavy lifting and short high-intensity conditioning for a large aerobic base and specific endurance work, and my capacity for...
The recovery discipline pro rugby forced on me comes down to treating sleep, fuelling and easy days as non-negotiable parts of training rather than optional extras, and it is the habit most...
What rugby coaches get right, and most fitness content gets wrong, is that they plan backwards from a date. A coach builds toward a fixture with blocks that each develop one quality...
Rebuilding an engine at 30 after contact sport means deliberately growing the aerobic base your old sport never asked for: months of easy running and steady cardio, not more of the explosive...
The one thing HYROX athletes should steal from a pro rugby training camp is its restraint. A camp is not a place where you train more, it is a place where two...
Ex-rugby players dominate the HYROX mid-pack because they arrive with strength, work capacity and competitive toughness already built, so once they add even a modest aerobic base they leapfrog most first-timers. The...
Earning a senior cap in rugby league taught me that pressure is managed by preparation and process, not by nerve, and that is exactly how you hold a HYROX together when the...
Rugby strength transfers to HYROX because the scrum, the maul and the tackle build exactly what the sled push, sled pull, lunges and carries reward: powerful legs, a braced trunk, and the...
Professional rugby left me strong but battered, since the collisions and heavy loading that built me also wore me down, and HYROX gave my body a way to rebuild without the impact....
Playing for Wales at U18 taught me that a standard is only real when it is written down and measured. At that level nobody was allowed a vague sense of being fit....
Team-sport athletes adapt to HYROX faster than they expect because they already own the two things that take beginners longest to build: real strength and the mental habit of working while tired....
My transition from professional rugby to HYROX came down to relearning how to move for an hour instead of exploding for eighty minutes of stop-start collisions. Rugby left me strong and durable...
Twelve years of elite rugby taught me that HYROX is won by the boring things done consistently: aerobic base, repeatable output under fatigue, and a body that recovers between hard days. Rugby...
Your plan should change when your life changes because training only works if you can actually complete it. A plan built for a good week becomes counterproductive the moment your sleep, stress,...
Age changes periodisation by making recovery, not stimulus, the limiting factor. Older athletes adapt just as well to hard training but need longer to absorb it, so blocks tilt toward more frequent...