Barbell Spin predicts Mal O’Brien to go Hyrox

[aaronmark]

@patrick1234 I think you nailed it. You can compete on fitness without learning a bunch of high-skill movements.

 

[kmoreno]

@aaronmark Plus the standardization and ability to compete in it in so many cities is appealing. Kind of like doing marathons/half-marathons in different cities.

 

[heavenstudent]

@patrick1234 I’ve been doing CrossFit for a year and the idea of training for a Hyrox event is appealing. I look at Hyrox like doing a 10k running race, with some strong man/ CrossFit elements mixed in. I don’t know what the equivalent for CrossFit is for me as a regular person, except for the Open. I could do local comps but I’m just not interested in pushing at that level. The learning curve to get to Rx is huge. I still love CrossFit, but as my regular “gym experience”.

 

[patrick1234]

@heavenstudent Funnily enough I’m doing my first hyrox event in April and am looking at it in a similar way. The movements I’ll sail through with my regular CrossFit training.. it’s the 8k of running in between that’s gonna hurt.

 

[heavenstudent]

@patrick1234 Awesome! Good luck!

 

[annieoakley]

@heavenstudent This is exactly it, training for a Hyrox once or twice a year will benefit any CrossFitter who wants a more solid aerobic base. They are entirely complimentary of each other.

 

[heavenstudent]

@annieoakley Makes me think of “Regularly learn and play new sports”

 

[followpeace]

@christina198585 I’m sure they can both be fun events to do for yourself. But trying to make hyrox into a “TV sport”… who are they kidding?

 

[dkfromthelight]

@christina198585 Spartan also has Deka which is similar. Doesn’t have the familiarity that hyrox or grid does, but it’s there.

 

[ektar74]

@followpeace But it’s truly accessible to more people and easier to do. It’ll be bigger than CrossFit in 10 years, I’m assuming.

 

[abr1234]

@ektar74 There was the boom of Spartans and tough mudders like a decade ago; run for a while, do a thing, run for a while, do a thing. Hyrox seems pretty boring.

 

[ektar74]

@abr1234 Those Spartans and Tough Mudders are still going on though, they haven’t gone away. Plus, the CEO of Spartan is kind of an asshole and doesn’t like paying the athletes, which probably effects the growth. Hyrox is already more global than both of those sports, though.

 

[rovella]

@dannyabc Hunter is the OCR fella right? OCR gave him a decent leg up on the average athlete and he has proven himself to be a great athlete in general, but didn't he get smoked at the games he was invited to?

 

[be_a_light]

@rovella To be fair, Hunter has some very elite level GPP-style fitness. For someone who doesn’t train CrossFit at all he is pretty good at it.

 

[chapelmusicworship]

@be_a_light Dude did a sub-35 Murph unpartitioned in 2020. Dudes super fit. The 2019 games cut was because his handstand walking sucked.

 

[garyholden]

@chapelmusicworship This is lost on a ton of posters in this sub.

Relative to CF guys he’s a specialist. Dramatically better cardio but much weaker and without the sport specific CF skills. In a normal games year where every athlete gets to do nearly every event he’d win any sort of run/ bike event outright, and crush events like Murph or the capitol.

I think if he got a chance to do a full set of programming he’d end up in the middle 50% of the pack. Impressive as hell.