Perspectives on the sport. Written by our Athletes, and our Founders.
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...
The best kit for sled-heavy training days is a reinforced tee or tank with durable shoulders and hem, a race-specific short with 4-way stretch and secure flat pockets, and grippy shoes, because...
The community shift from rugby to HYROX swaps a team that was assigned to you for a community you opt into, and the hidden consequence is not social, it is on the...
The day I realised rugby fitness isn't HYROX fitness was the first time I tried to run 8×1km with stations between them: my strength and my repeated-sprint power meant nothing against sustained...
The fitness I thought I had from years of elite rugby collapsed around the fifth kilometre of my first HYROX, because rugby fitness and HYROX fitness are not the same thing. I...
Kit that survives two years of elite HYROX training is not the heaviest kit; it is the kit reinforced exactly where the sport attacks and left light everywhere else. Durable polyester and...
From professional rugby I kept the habits that make an athlete reliable (showing up daily, fuelling properly, respecting recovery and competing when tired) and I dropped the ones built for collision and...
You audit a training year like a coach by reviewing the data you kept (races, field tests, training logs and adherence) against the goals you set, then asking what drove your gains,...
You periodise HYROX doubles by aligning two athletes' blocks around a shared race date while individualising the intensity inside each block. In doubles, partners run all 8 kilometres together and share the...
In a race block your body stops building new capacity and starts sharpening what you already have. You convert threshold fitness into race-specific execution, dropping total volume while holding a little intensity...
A 12-week HYROX countdown breaks into four three-week blocks: a base block for aerobic volume, a build block for strength endurance and compromised running, a race block for pacing and simulation, and...
The logic of ordering a HYROX training week is simple: separate your hardest sessions, keep easy days genuinely easy between them, and never stack two high-fatigue efforts back to back. A well-ordered...
Double days help amateurs when they let you fit more quality training into a constrained schedule and separate sessions that would interfere if combined, but they hurt when they simply add fatigue...
Random workouts stop working after about 12 weeks because your body adapts to whatever it repeatedly encounters, and once it has adapted to constant variety, novelty itself stops being a stimulus. THETA's...
In HYROX block sequencing, the engine comes first for most athletes. You build a broad aerobic base early, then layer strength endurance and race-specific work on top of it. THETA's analysis of...
Progressive overload means gradually increasing training stress so the body keeps adapting, but the popular "never add more than 10% a week" rule is a rough guideline, not a law. Sustainable overload...