HeyJaredHyrox Coaching Podcast
HYROX racing and no-nonsense coaching insights. Training breakdowns, race reviews and real talk from the sharp end with Chris Bayens and Aaron Woodman
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Data, Feedback and Coaching the Person with Stephen Pelkofer (opens the original)
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Aaron is joined by Elite 15 athlete and Threshold Lab founder Stephen Pelkofer for a conversation about what good coaching actually looks like beyond simply writing sessions. Drawing on his background in data science, basketball and elite HYROX racing, Stephen explains why he prefers to be data-informed rather than data-driven. They discuss how pace, heart rate and race splits can be useful, but only when they’re combined with context, athlete feedback and an understanding of the person behind t
Linda Meier: Winning, Pressure and Finding the Joy in Racing Again (opens the original)
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Each week, I take one of the most useful ideas from the podcast and turn it into practical coaching notes you can apply to your own training and racing. Sign up here: https://www.wdmcoaching.com/newsletter In this episode of the HYROX Coaching Podcast, Aaron and Chris are joined by Linda Meier to talk through the period after becoming HYROX World Champion, how that success changed the expectations she placed on herself, and why objectively good performances can start to feel disappointing when
STOP WASTING YOUR FITNESS IN HYROX (opens the original)
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This week, Aaron and Chris review a huge weekend of HYROX racing before getting into the main coaching discussion: the difference between fitness, conditioning and pacing , and why being fitter does not automatically mean you will race better. Fitness is the individual physical qualities you possess. Conditioning is your ability to express those qualities across the complete demands of HYROX. Pacing is how you decide to spend them on race day. Get that final part wrong and a station that looks l
How hard should Hyrox training be? (opens the original)
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In this episode of the HYROX Coaching Podcast, Aaron and Chris look at how much intensity HYROX athletes actually need, and why simply making more of the week hard is rarely the answer. They start with the commonly quoted 80/20 rule and discuss where it came from, why it can be useful as a broad principle, but also why getting obsessed with exact percentages misses the point. HYROX has running, strength work and eight different stations creating different types of stress, so the real question is
How to Run Faster Without Breaking Down (opens the original)
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This week, Aaron and Chris are back with a race recap from Perth before getting into a set of questions around running development for HYROX athletes. The main discussion looks at how to improve running when time, running volume or impact tolerance is limited, why simply adding more speed work is often the wrong answer, and how frequency, volume and intensity should be progressed if the goal is to run faster without repeatedly breaking down. They also cover heavier athletes and running durabilit
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