Most of us have completed our fall marathon season and are on our strategy to the vacation season of restoration! My large 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 will probably be this weekend.
I’ve been leaning into Excessive Endurance this marathon season for restoration help and am growing my dosage this week as my physique works to recuperate 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, specific for its restoration facets.
Photograph Cred: @Xendurance
This product is made by an organization known as Xendurance, a US-based firm, and I lined 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 organize for this grueling health competitors. I’ve competed in Hyrox thrice beforehand and this will probably 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 evaluations 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 big 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. Nevertheless, Excessive Endurance is designed to assist in fast restoration occasions and to extend athletic efficiency, so I’m leaning into that. The product really goes past athletic use as nicely. In a latest research, Dr. Robin McNelis. an Unbiased 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 through the years, 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 Continual Fatigue presentation of Publish Covid Syndrome/Lengthy Covid. Dr. McNelis started utilizing Excessive Endurance in early 2024, to not recklessly push by way of (we all know that doesn’t work with Lengthy Covid), however to attenuate any symptom relapses if he by accident overdid issues. He additionally used Immune Enhance to attempt to cut back the influence of any minor infections which had been additionally hampering progress. His full research exhibiting that these merchandise aided in restoration may be learn right here. Dr. Robin McNelis Lactic Acid Examine (1)
I’ll be reporting again after this weekend to let you understand how Hyrox went and if I felt any variations in efficiency with Excessive Endurance.
