Remy’s Journal 📝

By Stephane Rochet, CF-L3

We’ve covered a lot of ground here, but circling back to the original question, I do not see Hyrox replacing CrossFit. Hyrox simply does not fulfill the same purpose as CrossFit. CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program, a lifestyle, designed to build work capacity across as broad a spectrum of physical qualities as possible so we can overcome as many physical challenges or adventures as possible, move all our health metrics in the right direction, battle chronic disease, and enjoy the highest quality of life possible for our entire lifespan.

Optimal health is the need CrossFit satisfies. That’s what we were built for.

Hyrox involves a race, a single event, and it has never claimed to produce the depth and breadth of adaptation to deliver on health the way CrossFit does.

Can someone get very fit training for Hyrox? Absolutely. But not as fit as a CrossFit athlete by OUR definition of work capacity across broad time and modal domains. CrossFit is the gold standard for developing health and fitness. Hyrox is an entertaining, emerging sport, and it’s fun to watch as a cadre of professional athletes push for incredible times. It is also a well-organized, exciting, unique, and extremely challenging race perfectly suited for testing a CrossFit athlete’s fitness.

CrossFit and Hyrox both bring unique strengths and offerings to the industry. However, rather than solely focusing on rivalry, which the media prefers, we can both thrive independently while serving our distinct missions. Furthermore, our competition in the marketplace doesn’t prevent us from recognizing that diverse training options ultimately benefit athletes and strengthen the fitness community as a whole.

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