Hyrox Training

My endurance sports training this year is totally centered around training for a Hyrox race on August 9th. 

 Hyrox is a relatively new event which combines 1-kilometer running segments with eight different functional workout stations.   

I obsess over Hyrox training and am relatively less consumed with triathlon, Spartan, and various run events. 

As passionate as I may be about the training, the training regiment itself has been chaotic and ad hoc.   Hyrox training lacks the simplicity of, say, marathon training (essentially add steadily more miles to Sunday long runs).  

Though it is much easier to do Hyrox event specific training than Spartan, it is challenging to specifically train for all EIGHT stations.

I have been trying to do two full gym sessions per week plus make effort to add certain exercises during runs.  I have cobbled together various venues in effort to cover the different stations as best I can -- 

1.    Club360 – Only chance to do sled push, sled pull, ski-erg (and utilize whole array of different weights). 50-minute coached session for 3,500 yen.  Have managed to make it to four sessions

2.    Tokyo Public Gym – Rowing machine, plus dumb-bells for use on farmers carry and lunges

3.    Apartment – I purchased a 5 kilogram medicine ball which I use at home for wall-ball training on bedroom wall and weighted lunges across living room.

4.    Park – Trying to do burpee broad jumps

I have limited expectations for how well I will place at Hyrox.  I am not particularly competitive at many of the stations - it has been taking me 8 or more minutes to complete burpee broad jump, lunges, or wall-balls - well over the 5-minute standard for the average Hyrox male finisher. 

 It is hard to gauge much improvement over the last couple months, but hopefully I am building a base of fitness in these exercises.  And improving my overall health.