Recovery guides
Sleep, mobility, and the boring habits that compound across a 12-week build.
Recovery
The most common HYROX injuries, and the training that prevents them
Almost every HYROX injury is a load problem rather than an accident: too much running added too fast, or a station trained at race weight before the tissue was ready. Here is where they happen and what prevents them.
5 min read
Recovery
DOMS after HYROX: what it means, what helps and what does not
Everyone is wrecked for a few days after their first HYROX, and the lunges are usually the reason. What the soreness is telling you, what genuinely shortens it, and what is just an expensive placebo.
5 min read
Recovery
HYROX deload weeks: when to take one and what to actually do
A deload is not a rest week and it is not a taper. It is a planned drop in volume that keeps intensity, taken before you need it, and it is the first thing most people skip.
5 min read
Recovery
Training with a niggle: when to push and when to stop
Not every ache needs rest and not every pain is fine. A usable framework for the grey area, and the specific signs that mean stop and get it looked at.
4 min readRecovery
Recovery between Hyrox races: when to push, when to back off
Racing 3-5 Hyrox events in a year demands a recovery framework. The decision rules for the weeks after each race.
5 min readRecovery
Hyrox recovery: sleep, mobility, and the boring habits that compound
Twelve weeks of Hyrox training is a stress dose. Without recovery, you don't adapt, you just accumulate fatigue. The simple inputs that decide whether the build works.
7 min read