Perspectives on the sport. Written by our Athletes, and our Founders.
Flat side pockets beat bulky cargo pockets in training because they hold small items close to the body without bouncing, dragging or snagging, while loaded cargo pockets swing and shift on every...
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...
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...
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 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 2-year race-team testing loop makes better kit because prototypes are worn through real HYROX training and racing, fed back to the makers, then revised repeatedly until the failure points are gone....
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 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 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...
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...