Get ready for your HYROX

A HYROX is eight kilometers split into eight legs of a thousand meters and, between each leg, a strength station. It isn't an obstacle course or a circuit that changes from one city to the next: the order is fixed and it's the same in Seville, in Madrid or in Hamburg. It opens with a run and closes with the wall balls.

The eight stations, in order: ski, sled push, sled pull, burpee broad jumps, row, farmers carry, sandbag lunges and wall balls. Between each of them, another kilometer. That repetition is exactly what makes it hard: it's not the station, it's reaching the station with legs that have been running.

And there's one detail that changes everything: in HYROX the clock doesn't stop. It starts on the first kilometer and keeps running while you cross the hall, while you set up the sled and while you catch your breath before the wall balls. The time you rest counts just like the time you work.

HYROX is an open race: there's no minimum time or prior qualification, and the only requirement to enter is being sixteen on race day. From there you choose a category, and that's where many people get lost.

In singles there are four divisions: Women, Women Pro, Men and Men Pro. The distance run is the same in all of them, and so are the reps; the only thing that changes is the weight. In doubles there are five: women's doubles, women's Pro doubles, men's doubles, men's Pro doubles and mixed doubles, made up of a man and a woman competing with the men's Open weights. There is no mixed Pro doubles.

A doubles pair does the same totals as a single racer and splits each station however they like, but they run the eight kilometers together: if one gets ahead, it's a one-minute penalty. The relay, on the other hand, is four people and has three divisions (women's, men's and mixed), with no Pro version. Each relay member runs two kilometers and does two stations, in the order the team decides.

And there's HYROX Adaptive, a singles format with its own rulebook and thirteen divisions by type of disability, where the distances and weights do change. To compete in it you have to be officially classified.

Above all of that is the Elite 15, the line-up of the fifteen best who race for the title. The organizers reshuffle these tiers from season to season, so it's worth checking that year's rulebook before you enter.

This is the table worth having in front of you before you train, because the weights aren't organized in four columns but in three: a Pro woman lifts exactly the same as an Open man.

Besides division, HYROX also ranks by age, and that leaves room for everyone from beginners to people who've been competing their whole lives. In singles there are fourteen five-year bands: up to 24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84 and 85-89.

What counts is your age on race day, not your year of birth. In doubles it's the same fourteen bands, but the average age of the two applies: a 50-year-old and a 49-year-old compete in the 45 to 49 group.

Having these bands changes a lot about how you read your result. Your time isn't only compared with the winner's, but with people your age, and that's the comparison that really tells you whether you're getting better.

It's worth saying early and clearly, because this page names the race many times. Reverfit doesn't organize HYROX, doesn't sell race entries, isn't an affiliated gym and isn't sponsored or endorsed by the organizers. If what you want is to enter a race, the place is their official website, not this one.

HYROX is a registered trademark of its owner. We name it because it's the race the people who use our app train for, and there's no honest way to explain what the app is for without saying its name. Our app is called 8Round. The format (eight legs and eight stations) belongs to no one; the name does.

Before the table, an honest warning: HYROX doesn't publish a historical roll of honor on any of its websites. What follows is compiled from sports media and unofficial results databases, and we've checked it against more than one source for each year.

There have been eight World Championships, from 2019 to 2026. These are the winners of the elite category:

Same story here: HYROX doesn't publish an official list of records either, so what follows are the marks listed in the most-followed unofficial compilations, checked one by one.

And before you read it, two things that, unexplained, look like a mistake on our part. First: winning the World Championship isn't the same as holding the record. The men's record, for one, was set at a regular race on the circuit. Second: the Open record is faster than the Pro one, and that's normal, because Open lifts less weight. They're two different categories and they don't compete with each other.

Almost everyone trains the stations and the kilometers. Very few train what's in between, and that's where the time goes that then doesn't show up anywhere: getting off the rower, crossing the hall, picking up the farmers carry handles, finding your spot at the wall. Seconds you don't feel that add up to minutes.

If you don't measure them, they don't exist. And if they don't exist, you don't train them. That's why 8Round measured transitions from day one: every leg has two taps, «Start» and «Done», and the gap between them is logged separately. At the end of the race you see, for the first time and in black and white, how long you stood still.

8Round is a Reverfit app made just for this. It has the whole race inside, with the eight stations in order and the weights for your division, and a clock that behaves like the race clock: it starts on the first kilometer and doesn't stop until the last wall ball.

You don't need to be in competition shape already to use it. There are six levels: Open and Pro are the HYROX ones, with their exact meters and kilos, and below them come Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4, the ladder to get there. The same exercises and the same order, with fewer meters and less weight, so your first time isn't also your last.

And if today you only want to hammer one thing, there's the single exercise: the ski, the row or the wall balls on their own, with your meters, your reps, your kilos and, on the machines, the resistance from 0 to 10. There's also a free mode to build the sixteen legs your own way.

Training for a HYROX without logging anything is repeating the same workout for months while believing you're making progress. The feeling that «today went better» doesn't work as a measure: you need last time's time right next to it.

That's why 8Round saves every race with its leg-by-leg time and puts it in your history, organized by month and day, with a bar that shows where your time went. That's where the stats come from: how your time drops race after race, your pace per kilometer, what you lose in transitions and your best marks at each of the eight stations.

And if you feel like measuring yourself against more people, there's a ranking for Open and one for Pro, with the top three men and women and your own spot. It shows only the nickname you pick and your time: no surname, no email. You join if you want and leave whenever you want.

It isn't a race entry or a club, and it doesn't replace someone watching you: it won't tell you whether your sled technique is good or whether you're arching your back on the sandbag. And it's a separate app from Reverfit Workout and Reverfit Diet: it has its own store listing, its own account and its own subscription, 8Round Plus.