How Should You Warm Up on HYROX Race Day?
On HYROX race day you warm up in roughly 15-20 minutes: 8-10 minutes of easy jogging to raise your core temperature, then dynamic mobility for hips, ankles and shoulders, a short set...
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Is HYROX Harder Than a Marathon?
HYROX and a marathon are hard in different ways, and the honest answer is that neither is universally harder. A marathon is a longer, single-mode aerobic grind lasting three to five hours...
How Do You Train for HYROX and Still Keep Your 5K Fast?
You keep your 5K fast while training for HYROX by ring-fencing two sharp running sessions a week, one threshold and one short interval, and building everything else around them rather than letting...
Wall Balls Keep Breaking You: How Should You Actually Train Them?
If wall balls keep breaking you, the fix is rarely more wall balls. It is leg endurance, a repeatable squat pattern and a paced rep plan so you never redline. HYROX finishes...
How Do You Pace the First 1K of a HYROX Race?
Pace the first 1km of a HYROX 15-30 seconds per kilometre slower than your goal average pace. It feels too easy on purpose. Adrenaline and a fresh crowd make almost everyone go...
How Heavy Are the HYROX Sleds, and How Should You Train for Them?
In HYROX Open the sled push totals 152kg for men and 102kg for women, and the sled pull is 103kg for men and 78kg for women, each over 50 metres, with the...
Do You Need to Be Able to Run 10K Before Entering HYROX?
No, you do not need to run 10K before entering HYROX. The race is eight separate 1km runs broken up by stations, never a continuous 10K, so the ability to run repeated...