Most of us have completed our fall marathon season and are on our strategy to the vacation season of restoration! My huge races are full however I’m not fairly in full rest mode but, as Hyrox is returning to Chicago, and that’s the place I might be this weekend.
I’ve been leaning into Excessive Endurance this marathon season for restoration help and am rising my dosage this week as my physique works to get better from a difficult 10K race on Saturday and the brutal hills of the Madison Marathon this previous Sunday.
I first found Excessive Endurance on IG and instantly grew to become intrigued, explicit for its restoration points.
Photograph Cred: @Xendurance
This product is made by an organization known as Xendurance, a US-based firm, and I coated this product a bit extra in my late October story right here.
I’m set to race on Saturday at 5pm and specializing in restoration and hydration this week to arrange for this grueling health competitors. I’ve competed in Hyrox 3 times beforehand and this might be my first incorporating Excessive Endurance into my coaching cycle.
The race options 8 purposeful health strikes with a 1KM run in between every train. Athletes are divided into teams based mostly on gender and age and start a begin chute with a HYROX staff member who not solely opinions the foundations, however pumps you up.
Athletes start with a 1KM run, which in Chicago interprets to 2 plus laps across the exterior of the train station space. After the run, the athletes transition to the SkiErg, the place they’ve to finish 1,000 meters of higher physique and again motion.
After the SkiErg, athletes will as soon as once more hit that 1KM run across the exterior and enter to train quantity two, which is the one I discover most difficult. As an higher physique power challenged runner, pushing a sled is a large work effort. The exercise requires 4 laps of 12.5 meters pushing a sled that weighs 226 lbs for girls and 336 lbs for males.
Following the sled push, there are six extra occasions, every sandwiched with a run.
4 x 12.5 m Sled Pull – 225 lbs / 225 lbs (every incl. Sled)
1 km run*
80 m Burpee Broad Soar
1 km run*
1,000 m Row
1 km run*
200 m Kettle Bell Farmers Carry – 2×35 Ibs / 2x 53 Ibs
1 km run*
100 m Sandbag Lunges – 22 lbs / 45 lbs
1 km run*
100 x Wall Balls – 10 lbs / 14 lbs
This competitors is extraordinarily robust on the physique, and my physique is actually not in peak coaching mode after my fall marathon season, so I’m a bit nervous as to how this can work. Nonetheless, Excessive Endurance is designed to assist in fast restoration occasions and to extend athletic efficiency, so I’m leaning into that. The product truly goes past athletic use as nicely. In a current examine, Dr. Robin McNelis. an Impartial Chartered Physiotherapist, Well being Coach, and Athletics Coach working in London, Scotland, discovered that the product aided in lengthy Covid restoration.
Physiotherapist Robin McNelis was a sub-3 hour marathon runner, with 19 marathons accomplished over time, when sadly he contracted COVID-19 in March 2020 leading to a blood clot on his lung and pericarditis (irritation round his coronary heart). After having each of these efficiently handled, Robin developed the Power Fatigue presentation of Publish Covid Syndrome/Lengthy Covid. Dr. McNelis started utilizing Excessive Endurance in early 2024, to not recklessly push by means of (we all know that doesn’t work with Lengthy Covid), however to reduce any symptom relapses if he by accident overdid issues. He additionally used Immune Increase to attempt to scale back the influence of any minor infections which had been additionally hampering progress. His full examine exhibiting that these merchandise aided in restoration will be learn right here. Dr. Robin McNelis Lactic Acid Research (1)
I’ll be reporting again after this weekend to let you know the way Hyrox went and if I felt any variations in efficiency with Excessive Endurance.
