Human Performance Academy

A recap of the last 7 months of racing in Hyrox 🔥

For those that have followed me long enough will know I had two failed attempts at completing a marathon due to injury.

But October last year finally saw me get that monkey off my back when I ran the Chester marathon 🙌🏻

That opened the pathway to go all in at Hyrox.

My season opener was in November in Dublin 🇮🇪
1:01 - My marathon base pulled me through that race with only 4 weeks Hyrox specific prep.

Being so close to the sub 60 I decided to roll the dice only 3 weeks later in London…

Going out hotter but paid the price and finished a minute off my Dublin time.

Redemption 2 days later with a solid doubles with Mr IronMan Ross Hosking - Triathlon Coach

Manchester doubles, Mike Stewart and I went out HOT trying to beat our 55 min PB and paid the price, leading the race for the first half but slowly fell apart.

Video on slide 5 and the pic on slide 6 sum it up.

Then my first taste of a relay, balls to the wall for 2 stations.
Sub 2 min burpees and unbroken 💯, not sure you can count that in a relay tho 👀

Glasgow was a nice run out with my better half Iz🦋 and her first race 🩵

Malaga 🇪🇸 is where the training and consistency was rewarded.
Hitting a 57 min Pro doubles with my brother

Then Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
7 months going all in on the sport by this point.
Finishing 1st in AG with Jason Jones-Williams 🏳️
Then setting a solo PB a couple of days later 🎯

Lessons learnt:
- Pacing your race is vital
- There’s a lesson in every race
- You’ll see marginal gains (if any), when doing different races so close together
- It takes time to build fitness and get better
- Hard work always pays off

I can not wait for next season, as we continue to learn more and get better 🔥

The goal posts are forever moving the better we get.

Oslo 🇳🇴, Valencia 🇪🇸, Birmingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Stockholm 🇸🇪 already in the calendar.

Onwards & Upwards 🚀🌕

Human Performance Academy

Aerobic fitness doesn’t always need to be the priority.

However most every day people have an under developed base, due to smashing a load of threshold, Vo2 max and anaerobic work.

Especially for a sport like Hyrox, where the race can be intense and hard.

People think that training 3-4 intense Hyrox classes and then doing high threshold intervals will make them better at the sport.

Or the need to add really hard conditioning pieces at the end of every strength workout.

It won’t build fitness, but it will build a bucket load of fatigue.

You will only ever adapt to the training stimulus you can recover from.

There’s a reason why all the triathletes, marathon runners, ultra endurance athletes coming over to Hyrox do so well….

Because they have a huge aerobic base from years of aerobic base training.

As always though, it all comes back to specificity and the context of the athlete in question.

First you test, then you find the limiter, then you build the plan based on that rather than guessing.

Data drives performance.

Human Performance Academy