Finding Coaching in a New Sport: A Practical Guide for 2026
To find good HYROX coaching in 2026, judge coaches by their reasoning and their coverage of both halves of the race (not their race times or their confidence) and match the format...
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Software as Coach: What an Algorithm Can and Can't Do for You
Software can do the parts of coaching that are systematic (periodising blocks, distributing intensity, adapting load from your data and never forgetting your history) but it cannot read the room, feel your...
Hybrid Coaching Is a New Discipline, Not a Mashup
Hybrid coaching is a distinct discipline, not a bolt-together of a running plan and a lifting plan, because combining endurance and strength creates interference effects and pacing demands that neither parent sport...
Generic Plans vs Coached Athletes: Where the Gap Actually Shows
The gap between generic plans and coached athletes shows up most in four places: pacing set to the individual, adaptation when life or fatigue intervenes, weakness-targeting, and race-specific execution like compromised running...
The Data Advantage: How New Sports Reward Analytical Coaching
New sports reward analytical coaching because there is no settled dogma to defend, so whoever reads the evidence best gets ahead fastest. In an old sport, decades of trial and error have...
Why Most HYROX Advice Is Recycled CrossFit and Running Dogma
Most HYROX advice is recycled CrossFit and running dogma because those are the sports its coaches came from, and the sport is too young to have generated much of its own. The...
Why Expert HYROX Coaches Are So Hard to Find
Expert HYROX coaches are hard to find because expertise is time spent solving a specific problem, and HYROX has only existed at competitive scale for a few years. A coach who genuinely...
Running Every Day vs Running Smart: Volume Traps in Engine Building
Running every day is not the fastest way to build a HYROX engine. Running smart is. Consistent easy volume across four to six runs a week, mostly slow, with one or two...
Layering Intensity Onto Base: How Build Blocks Cash In Your Engine
A Build block cashes in your aerobic base by layering race-specific intensity on top of it: threshold intervals to raise your sustainable pace, compromised running to survive station fatigue, and repeat-effort strength...
Why Base Training Feels Like Going Backwards (Until It Doesn't)
Base training feels like going backwards because you deliberately slow down and cut intensity to build aerobic capacity, so your easy pace, your gym numbers and your sense of "fitness" can all...
Building an Engine at 45+: Zone 2 as the Safest Path
Zone 2 is the safest and most effective way to build a HYROX engine at 45 and beyond because it develops aerobic fitness with minimal injury risk and low recovery cost: exactly...
The Impatience Tax: What Happens When You Skip Base
The impatience tax is what you pay when you skip base training and jump straight to hard, race-specific work: early gains that stall within weeks, a fragile aerobic engine, and a raised...
The 80/20 Rule: How Much of Your Week Should Be Easy?
The 80/20 rule says roughly 80% of your training time should be genuinely easy and only about 20% genuinely hard — the same polarised distribution the elite HYROX data shows. As of...
The Physiology of Zone 2: Mitochondria, Fat Oxidation and the Long Game
The physiology of Zone 2 comes down to three slow-building adaptations: more and larger mitochondria, better fat oxidation, and a denser capillary network: together they raise the pace you can hold aerobically,...
A Season Without a Team: Learning to Race Alone
A season without a team taught me that racing alone is a skill, not a downgrade: HYROX strips away the teammates who once shared the load and hands the whole result to...
Handling Selection and Setbacks: A Team-Sport Mindset for Race Day
A team-sport mindset for race day is not positive thinking, it is a decision-removal system. The reason elite team-sport athletes stay composed when a game turns is that they are not deciding...