Most niggles need modified loading, not rest.
Advice about training with pain tends to be either 'listen to your body', which means nothing, or 'push through', which is how a niggle becomes an injury. These guides sit in the grey area in between, with a clear list of the symptoms where the honest answer is to stop reading and go and see someone.
- [ Start here ]
Training with a niggle: when to push and when to stop
The grey-area framework, and the red flags that mean stop.
- [ Recovery ]
Hyrox recovery: sleep, mobility, and the boring habits that compound
Sleep does more than anything else, and gets the least attention.
- [ Between races ]
Recovery between Hyrox races: when to push, when to back off
How long to leave it, and what the gap is actually for.
- [ Load ]
How many times a week should you train?
Signs you are training too often, and why the fix is a lighter week.
Six weeks unchanged is your answer
A niggle improving week on week is resolving and you can keep working around it. One that has been identical for six weeks is not, and another six weeks of the same will not change that. A physiotherapist assessment is one of the better-value things in this sport: a single session often resolves weeks of guessing.