It’s social media mad
My last race I had people who I still have no idea who they are …?!
Wishing me well and after the race too.
Nice I guess, but it really does make the world a lot smaller.
Apart from “ which are the best hyrox shoes” lol
It’s quite a nice community, a bit like here
Wasn’t it Adam on the 2025 races thread?
Me and @APM
Looks like there’s quite a few events across UK USA and South Africa, so must be decent enough. Only 400m runs at a time too, and the stations are easier than Hyrox too I reckon.
Any feelings coming through on the long term impacts of hyrox on the musculoskeletal system? Any better or worse that tri for example?
Yeah I’ve thought about this.
For me, I think I would find HYROX easier as it’s more running and cardio focused.
Deadly dozen seems to favour the S&C.
I’ve done all the Exercises in the deadly dozen with the exception of bear crawl?!
120ms seems a long long way ?!
A local ish race had 64 male solos with thirty odd going sub hour and 48? Min for The winner.
So it’s certainly a “ shorter “ race.
Most of the stations are “ easier “ ish than hyrox ones or at least similar, but when your running flat out ( 4.8 ? K as opposed to 8 ) lifting stuff and moving becomes quite hard very quickly.
Aren’t the weights heavier in DD?
Either way, 60 kettlebell deadlifts with 32 kg sounds hard!
I think farmers is slightly heavier but a small %. Down in distance
Lunges is shorter distance 60 m not 100, again slightly heavier ( two db not a sand bag)
The hardest is probably those devil press thingys
Burpee into shoulder press …grim
But only 20 reps.
Personally none of them ( can’t comment in the bear crawl ) I bet that’s hard ?!? Are near the wall balls ( but I’m crap at them so I’m biased I guess)
Oh my !
Dr Dan carb free plews ( is he still the fastest Kona age grouper?)
Had a go at a proper sport ?!? ( I’ll get back under my bridge )
Sub hour debut recently.
Third overall I think ? Run splits were super super fast ( elite 15 level )
It’s a good sport
Yeah I saw that.
Clearly his approach works tremendously for himself, but seems other pro triathletes haven’t felt he was as good a fit for them as he was hyped up be a few years ago. Sodaro talking about how much happier/better she is after moving, and Sam Long didn’t last long.
Do the best athletes make the best coaches ?
Probably not in all cases, a very fast coach type local to me/ us had the “ it worked for me policy “ written all over his plans yet another historically slower guy had great success with his charges by actually looking deeper at what made THEM faster.
I could drop some names here but you can probably guess and don’t paticulary like my nickname !
As someone who’s not done either, can you explain the differences in ‘accessibility’? There are Crossfit gyms, my daughter goes to one with school sometimes.
Functional fitness is important, it’s just just BS around the ‘brands’ that is tedious.
The crossfit stuff I’ve seen, whilst they’re strong and fit, the form for lifting as they race looks shocking and the overhead lifts in a race seems dangerous.
More interested in Hyrox but the hype is putting me off.
Lots of insta reels on the hybrid athlete.
From what I’ve seen in Basketball, I would say it’s very variable on the coaching front with (ex) pros vs ‘career coaches’. My Son is fortunate enough to be part of a programme where he’s coached in one of his sessions by the Captain of the local professional franchise (who has coached in the Bundesliga). I would say he’s good for a player, but the other players are generally not that interested or engaged. The traditional ‘career coaches’ are generally much better at dealing with the kids.
You forgot Triathlon Taren 
Blimey, I haven’t heard that name in a very long time!
I wonder what happened to him?
I could write a dissertation on this. Maybe not for the hyrox thread though, but tl;dr A good coach is a good coach, despite their athletic background not because of their athletic background. Having some background can be advantageous in some situations, but not essential and certainly a coach isn’t good because of their own athletic achievements. It’s one of the most frustrating things about Elite sports coaching, it’s a closed shop largely of ex elite athletes and those that try to break through are hitting brick walls. Even those that have an athlete from a young age who is once in a generation, often the coach wont be allowed access/given passes for events, athlete may be forced to adopt chosen NGB coaches etc. or is sidelined. Its cliquey.
I had a feeling you would have views on this !
Lots and lots of people getting into hyrox coaching now
Cash to be made !
Some all the quals, seem very good most fast ish but not all
Simon passmore is probably the quickest 50 year old record holder a few secs behind Dan plews I think?
He in all fairness looks very good.
Some are shocking … really really bad … but they will take your cash!
Your story reminds me of boxing we’re elite talents are often coached by there dad / amateur coach … often to progress they need to join a more established coach/ gym/ outfit sometimes this is the right thing to do, but not always, the “click “ exists there too.
He kind of reached a peak before Covid, had a lot of sponsor product and a fairly healthy sign up to his Trainiacs platform. Trouble was he strayed from his lane and was completely out of his depth.
He descended into shilling just about any product or fad and copped a lot of flak.
He basically burnt himself out and pivoted away from Tri stuff to general motivation content and started ‘Mottiv’ as a rebrand. I think he moved house twice and now I’m pretty sure he’s just quit altogether.
He was bonkers !
Got some good / crazy results though
Had loads of sponsored stuff as you say
Started off then became more of an advert than actual tri stuff
You just know he’s a hyrox coach now !
