TrainHybrd Podcast - Hyrox, Hybrid Training, Running & Endurance

Ben and Jackson unpack the very real reason behind their extended mid-year break. They also dive into training by RPE and why listening to your effort can be more useful than living and dying by a heart-rate percentage.

If you’d like to support Ben’s brother through his recovery, you can donate a few bucks to his GoFundMe here.

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Think your first HYROX is about fitness? It's not. It's about not making the 10 mistakes everyone makes.
Ben and Jackson run through the 10 things that will actually get you through your first HYROX, then Jackson opens the book on 3 years of racing. He's taken 10 minutes off his solo Pro time, from 1:10 down to 60 minutes, and none of it came from just training harder. The mistakes, the learnings, and how our training has changed as the sport, and our understanding of it, has evolved.
Inside the episode:
The 10 things we wish someone told us before our first race
Why your first HYROX is won in the plan, not on the day
Jackson's 3-year journey from 1:10 to 60 minutes in solo Pro
The mistakes that cost us the most, pacing, station strategy, and compromised running
How HYROX training in 2026 looks nothing like it did 3 years ago
What we'd do differently if we were starting from scratch today
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Ben and Jackson talk overtraining. The signs, the symptoms, how to avoid it, what it actually is, and their own experiences training themselves into the hole.
This one's Part 1. What overtraining really means for endurance and HYROX athletes, and why it's a nervous system problem, not a sore legs problem.
Inside the episode:
The difference between fatigue, overreaching, and true overtraining
The early signs, elevated resting HR, suppressed HRV, dreading sessions you usually love
Why hitting every session while getting slower is a warning, not fitness
How life stress lands on the same ledger as training load
Both of our stories, what we ignored and what it cost us
How to avoid the hole, hard days hard, easy days easy, and a recovery week you actually take

Listen now, link in bio. Part 2 covers the way out.

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Ben and Jackson are joined by Elite 15 athlete Tom Rodgers.
Twelve months ago Tom was top 6 in the world, an Elite 15 athlete racing the best on the planet at the HYROX Chicago World Championships. Then his body broke. Eighteen months of injury, surgery talk, and long days on crutches.
But he never stopped. We're talking garage ski erg sessions for hours on end, holding onto a world-class engine around long shifts as a cop in rural Melbourne, refusing to let the comeback die.
This one is about the setback most athletes never come back from. The mental war of being out that long, how you protect your fitness when you physically can't run, and whether you can fight your way back to the top while the sport gets faster around you every single week. We also
We also open with the LSKD controversy blowing up in HYROX right now. The cease and desist, Puma's exclusive grip on the sport, and whether it's fair that the big brands ambush from the sidelines while the smaller ones get shut out.
Ben and Jackson, back with one of our best yet. Let's get into it.

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Ben and Jackson are back for a full listener Q&A on episode 92. They call out another podcast for its take on getting "chicked" and the poor form of it, before getting into rage-baiting in the endurance world. They also break down an argument they got pulled into online recently, answer your endurance questions, and "What really fires up Jackson and Ben"

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