It’s not just aerobic endurance though that plays a part in HYROX, but also muscular endurance. For example, you need muscular endurance to be able perform 100 meters of sandbag lunges, once you are already well into the event. And then you need to be able to run another 1km after, followed by 75/100 wall balls! Bearing this in mind, some of your gym work should be at higher rep ranges than your pure strength work (more on that below).

Properly recovering from a full HYROX can take several days, and if you’re doing them too often you could end up overly fatiguing yourself, potentially leading to injury or adversely impacting the rest of your training. It’s also generally not optimal. For example, the best way to improve your lunges probably isn’t to just do 100m of weighted lunges each week. Splitting up the total you do into more manageable sets, perhaps with heavier weights, can often be more effective, as well as being easier to recover from. This all said, there is a time and place for HYROX simulations, or metcons that incorporate the required HYROX movements. Something to bear in mind when doing these is understanding what you are trying to achieve out of the session. For example, you may want to specifically work on your upper body one day, and give your lower body more of a rest, so include more upper body based exercises that day. Alternatively, you may be aware of specific weaknesses (perhaps based on previous races) that you want to focus on, and so would do these more regularly than other exercises. For example, I knew that sled pulls and farmers carries were a weakness for me, so once a week I included a session that looked like this:when you have the ball in your hands, you want to keep it as close to the body as possible. Holding it out away from you will put extra pressure on the shoulders, and waste valuable energy.

With an ever-growing population, hospitals, clinics, midwifery groups, family health teams, and other healthcare organizations must equip themselves with practical risk and safety knowledge. Through working together, we can create the safest healthcare system. In terms of what sort of running workouts to do, a mixture of slow, steady state running (in heart rate zone 2), combined with other sessions of high speed, shorter distance, intervals, can normally work very well. You will also want to do some interval sessions at your expected race pace, especially as you get closer to the event. Exactly what, how often, and how far you run will depend on you, your history, and existing capabilities.

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It is an important station where there is a large variability in the times that athletes complete it in. But, unlike with other stations where that applies, you can push yourself to your absolute limit to get them done because it’s the end of the race. This is where leaving something in the tank goes out the window – by the time you reach the wall balls your tank will likely be almost empty, and you should use the wall balls to fully empty it! To reiterate, I’m not saying it’s a bad idea to occasionally replicate a HYROX race in your training; I would just be careful of falling into the trap of doing it too often. A large number of wall balls repetitions will test many muscles of your body. For example, you’ll be using your quads and glutes, with all the squatting, as well as your triceps and delts for the ball throwing element of the exercise. And obviously you’ll also be getting tested aerobically with so many reps required at the end of a long race. It really is the ultimate finisher. It’s worth adding at this point, because of all the muscles tested, that practising wall balls isnt the only way to train for them. Other exercises such as thrusters, over head pressing, and squats, can all carry over very well to the wall ball movements. HYROX combines running and functional training which opens it up to a broad audience of fitness enthusiasts. Everyone can do it, even if you haven’t trained, though we don’t recommend that – you’ll be sore for days afterwards. The Canadian healthcare system is evolving. At HIROC, we’re here to make sure your team is ready with the right resources for the challenges of tomorrow.