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Why Hyrox has exploded onto the World Sceene of Fitness Racing.

Hyrox has only been around for a short time and anytime you mention it to someone, most people have never heard of it. Yet, it has quickly grown to 175k plus participants in multiple countries and is rapidly expanding its partner program with gyms around the world.

When people ask me what is Hyrox, I answer with the following. You’ve heard of CrossFit, right? Yes of course. Then imagine CrossFit but with 8 stations that never change. The same 8 stations in every race in the same order. And after every station, you have to run 1km. Then I give people an example of a station which they will usually recognise straight away.

I think the key to Hyrox’s growth has been making the individual stations easy for the average fit person to complete. There are no super complex movements like Snatches or Muscle Ups. Each station is more likely to be an exercise that most people have seen before in their gym.

It’s easy to train for because it’s repeatable. It’s more cost-effective to operate and set up because every course is set out the same way. It can be run completely indoors and is not weather-dependent. And it’s very measurable as it’s time-based. So you know if you are improving. People want to see improvement. We like to know if we are getting better.

What I see as the key to Hyrox. Unlike CrossFit where some athletes dominate certain exercises like the deadlift, muscle ups, or cleans, Hyrox is all about running and how well you can recover. The athletes aren’t as big and heavy as CrossFit athletes, and leaner athletes with less muscle post very good times. Over 40 Hyrox world champion, Alison Outlaw is 5’10” and lean and muscular but she has recently run a 3:09 marathon. No wonder she can dominate Hyrox.

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Christian Toetzke’s (Hyrox Founder) mission is ambitious but rather simple: create a global, mass-participation event where gym-goers can compete against each other in the same way as marathon runners, triathletes, and cyclists.

He calls it the “marathon of fitness.” More Here

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