One of the easiest traps to fall into with HYROX is spending far too much time worrying about the stations. Everyone wants a better sled push. Everyone wants a faster SkiErg. Everyone wants to smash their wall balls without breaking. All useful stuff. But there’s a fairly large elephant in the room… You’ve still got to run 8 bloody kilometres. 😂 Eight separate 1km runs, with a station waiting for you after every single one. And the real challenge isn’t running the first kilometre when you’re fresh and feeling like an Elite 15 athlete. It’s whether you can still run properly after the sleds. After the burpees. After the farmers carry. After the lunges. And eventually, after seven kilometres of running and seven stations have already tried to ruin your day. That’s why we bang on about running so much inside HYROX Blueprint. Your easy running builds the aerobic engine and gives you the foundation to handle more work. Your threshold and tempo sessions teach you to hold a strong pace for longer without completely blowing your doors off. Your intervals help develop speed and your ability to work at higher intensities. And your compromised running gives you experience finding your running rhythm again when your legs would much rather you stopped. You don’t need to become an elite runner to be good at HYROX. But if your running falls apart halfway through the race, being brilliant at shaving 15 seconds off your SkiErg probably isn’t going to rescue you. Stations matter. Strength matters. Technique matters. But never forget what connects the whole race together. Running. Lots of it. Build the engine, learn to control your pace and make sure you’re still racing when everyone else starts surviving.

Hi, team! 👊 Me again with the same reminder… You probably don’t need another new training method. You don’t need the latest supplement your favourite athlete is suddenly promoting. You don’t need to completely rewrite your programme because you saw a spicy HYROX workout on Instagram. And you definitely don’t need to change everything because you had one rubbish week. Most people already know the basics of getting fitter. The problem is that the basics are boring. Running consistently for months is boring. Getting your strength sessions done every week is boring. Going to bed instead of watching another three episodes on Netflix is boring. Eating properly, recovering properly and sticking to the plan when progress feels slow is boring. But do you know what’s even more boring? Training your arse off for six months and getting nowhere because you changed direction every three weeks. The athletes who make the biggest improvements aren’t necessarily doing anything particularly clever. They’ve just become very good at doing the obvious things over and over again. They train consistently. They eat enough to support their training. They prioritise sleep and recovery. They don’t panic after one bad session. They don’t completely change the plan every time Instagram shows them something new. And most importantly… They give the bloody thing enough time to work. So stop searching for the missing piece. You probably aren’t missing one. Get your sessions done. Recover properly. Eat well. Sleep. Repeat. Then do it again next week. Exceptional results are usually built from very ordinary things done consistently for a very long time. Keep it simple. Keep turning up