Training guides
Programming, periodisation, and the week-by-week structure that gets you race-ready.
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1-on-1 personal training vs group sessions: choosing honestly
One is not better than the other. They solve different problems, and picking wrong is the most common reason people stop paying for coaching within three months.
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15 HYROX workouts for every fitness level
Fifteen sessions you can do this week, grouped by whether you are starting out, building, or sharpening for a race. Most need nothing more than a treadmill and a couple of kettlebells.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX burpee broad jump
The station that spikes heart rate harder than anything else, immediately before the one place you can recover. Five sessions for rhythm, legal form and recovery control.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX farmers carry
Your grip arrives at station six already spent by station three. Five sessions built around that coupling, which is the thing almost nobody trains.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX row
The only station where going slower can make you faster. Five sessions for sequencing, split discipline, and using the row as the recovery it was positioned to be.
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5 workouts that build faster HYROX sandbag lunges
Station seven, on quads that are already gone. Five sessions built on exposure rather than load, because the bag is not what makes this hard.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX SkiErg
Station one, where races are lost by going too well. Five complete sessions for stroke power, pacing discipline and the lat endurance the machine actually asks for.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX sled pull
Five sessions for the station with the most rules and the longest shadow. Rope work, lat strength, and the grip debt that lands three stations later.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX sled push
Five complete sessions, not drills. Position work, heavy carryover, the compromised push, and what to do if you cannot move race weight at all yet.
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5 workouts that build a faster HYROX wall ball
100 reps at the end of everything. Five complete sessions that build the squat endurance, the set discipline and the shoulder tolerance the last station actually needs.
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Group personal training online: cheaper, and it works for most people
Shared coaching delivered remotely. What it actually is, who it suits, where it fails, and how to tell a real group programme from a spreadsheet with a group chat.
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Home personal trainers: how home sessions actually work
A coach in your living room with a bag of kettlebells. What is genuinely possible at home, what needs a gym, and the practical questions nobody thinks to ask first.
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How long do you need to train for HYROX?
Twelve weeks if you already run. Sixteen to twenty if you do not. Six months if you are starting from nothing. Here is the honest answer by starting point, and how to tell which one you are.
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How many times a week should you train?
Three is the honest answer for most people, and four is where the returns start flattening. Why more is usually worse, and the frequency that beats all of it.
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How to start running when you hate running
Most people who hate running have only ever run too fast. Run-walk, the conversational pace test, and the eight weeks that change what running feels like.
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HYROX exercise order: why the sequence is the strategy
Nine movements in a fixed order that never changes. Which means the whole tactical problem is not what you do, but what each thing does to the next.
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HYROX exercises: the full movement list (and what they train)
There are only nine movements in a HYROX, counting running. No barbell, no gymnastics, nothing you need to learn a skill for. Here is every one, what it trains, and how to build it.
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Personal trainers for seniors: strength against ageing
The training that matters most after sixty is the training most people avoid. What a good coach actually programmes, what to ask before booking, and the myths worth ignoring.
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Strength training for beginners: the five movements
Squat, hinge, push, pull, carry. Everything else is a variation. How to start, how to progress, and why the programme was never the hard part.
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Couch to HYROX: getting from nothing to a finish line in 24 weeks
If you cannot currently run a kilometre, this is for you. Six months, three sessions a week, and an honest account of what each phase feels like.
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How much is a personal trainer in the UK? Real prices, honestly explained
What personal training actually costs across the UK, what you get at each price point, and the maths on whether a trainer or online coaching gives you more for the money.
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HYROX training near me: how to find a gym that can actually prepare you
You do not need an affiliated gym to train for this race. You need six pieces of equipment and somewhere you can run. Here is how to check what is near you.
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The HYROX workout, explained: what a session actually looks like
People search for the HYROX workout as though there is one. There is not. There is a way of training, and once you understand it you can build sessions yourself.
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Hyrox is a runner's race with a strength tax
Pure runners blow up at station 4. Pure lifters miss the time cut. The honest balance between strength and running for Hyrox, and what it means for your training week.
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Hyrox training apps: cheapest, best, and the honest middle
TrainingPeaks, Marchon, HAC, Suth Performance, free PDFs, what you get at each price point, and what you need. The honest comparison.
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Hyrox for shift workers: training around nights, rotations, and broken sleep
Healthcare workers, police, paramedics, firefighters, your sleep cycle is broken by design. Here's how the Hyrox build adapts to your rota.
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Six things that make the difference between 95 and 89 minutes
The athletes who break 90 don't have dramatically better fitness than those stuck at 95-100. They have six specific habits the others don't. Here they are.
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Hyrox for parents: training around school runs, bedtime, and small humans
You don't have 90 minutes a day for training. You have 35, after bedtime, three days a week. Here's how the Hyrox build works when you're a parent.
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Hyrox doubles: the strategy of two athletes, one clock
Doubles isn't half a Hyrox per athlete. It's a different race, pace decisions, handoff strategy, and station splits that share weaknesses without amplifying them. The complete framework.
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Training for Hyrox with young kids: the realistic plan
How parents of small children actually train for Hyrox without sacrificing family time. The 4-day plan that fits around the chaos.
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How to break a Hyrox plateau: a diagnostic for athletes stuck at 90-95 minutes
If you've raced Hyrox three or four times and your finish time hasn't moved, the fix is rarely 'more training'. The diagnostic that locates the actual bottleneck, and the targeted intervention that breaks it.
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Hyrox off-season: what to train when you're not racing
The 6-12 weeks between race blocks decide how good your next race block is. The off-season template that builds the engine for next year.
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From CrossFit to Hyrox: what transfers, what doesn't, what you'll find easy
CrossFitters arrive with most of the strength a HYROX needs. What is usually missing is the aerobic base, and it decides whether you finish in 75 minutes or 95.
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Hyrox simulations you can run at home with limited kit
No sled, no ski erg, no wall ball target. The home substitutions that still build race-specific fitness.
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Hyrox doubles handoff strategy: transitions that win the race
Doubles is two athletes, one clock. The handoff and split-station strategy decides 5-12 minutes against pairs of similar fitness.
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Hyrox training week structure: how to split your sessions
Whether you train 3 days or 6, the right split changes more about your race-day outcome than your total volume. Sample weeks for every commitment level.
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Women's Hyrox: weights, pacing, and what's different
The women's standards, the strategy shifts that matter, and the training adjustments that get a woman from finisher to sub-90.
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Hyrox for Masters athletes: training over 40, 50, and 60
Masters categories make Hyrox accessible at any age, but the training has to change. Recovery, intensity distribution, and what to drop as the years add up.
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How to qualify for the Hyrox World Championships
The qualification times, the categories, and what your training year looks like if you actually want to be on the start line in May.
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The 12-week Hyrox training plan: structure, progression, and what each week is for
A week-by-week breakdown of the standard 12-week Hyrox build. What changes week to week, why the order matters, and how to adapt it to your life.
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Hyrox vs CrossFit: which one actually suits your goals?
Same kit, different sport. A frank comparison of Hyrox and CrossFit, the demands, the community, the training load, and which one fits you.
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