Focus
Training focus
Rebuild Zone 1 - 2 engine, slowly adding strength and endurance.
Hyrox · Over 50 · Real Life
Documenting the Hyrox journey, one honest week at a time.
Not a full-time athlete. Not a fitness influencer. Just a disciplined engine rebuilding capacity for Hyrox races while balancing real life.
HOLIDAY TRAVEL • NEW INSIGHT (Click the badge to visit the winter training protocol)
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Navigating the Recovery Debt
Travel weeks revealed a critical lesson: fitness isn’t lost on the road — it’s lost when recovery debt goes unmanaged. Flights, poor sleep, long days, and time shifts require tighter training control, not harder workouts.
- Learned during: holiday travel, disrupted sleep, compressed schedules.
- Focus: protecting readiness, aerobic capacity, and nervous system balance.
- Outcome: arrive home ready to train — not needing a recovery reset week.
WINTER PROTOCOL (Click the badge to visit the winter training protocol)
Cold-Season Engine Builder
This badge represents disciplined winter training — maintaining aerobic capacity (VO₂ max), recovery, and HYROX readiness when conditions are harder—cold weather, travel, holiday stress, and disrupted sleep. Winter isn’t downtime. It’s where the engine is built.
- Earned by: following the Winter Protocol weekly (Anchor VO₂ + Zone 2 + HYROX-specific day + recovery).
- Signals: consistent training rhythm, improved readiness, and a steady VO₂ trend line over weeks.
- Purpose: motivation + identity — a reminder that winter work builds spring performance.
Why I’m sharing this journey
Hyrox can look intense from the outside. My goal is to show what it really takes for someone in their 50s with a normal life and responsibilities to train, recover, and show up on race day. No secrets — just consistent work, smart adjustments, and transparent metrics.
This week at a glance
High level view of the current week. Update these panels weekly.
Metrics
Volume snapshot
Number of sessions to build and maintain the engine
Video
Latest weekly recap video
Who this is for
Everyday athletes
If you’re juggling work, family, stress, travel, and still want a real challenge, this journey is meant to reflect your reality — not a sponsored influencer’s schedule.
Hyrox-curious
If you’ve seen Hyrox clips and thought “there’s no way I could do that” — the weekly breakdowns and metrics here are designed to show how you actually build up to it.
Experienced racers
If you already race, you might enjoy seeing how someone in their 50s structures training, manages recovery, and tracks progress over a full season.