Village Gym partners with Hyrox to gain official training club status

Health club operator, Village Gym, has teamed up with fitness race specialist, Hyrox. The partnership will result in all 33 Village Health & Wellness Clubs becoming official training clubs for event challengers, offering dedicated Hyrox group classes and training to members.

Through the new training programme, Hyrox challengers will be professionally supported by certified trainers and have the opportunity to engage in structured fitness challenges and in-house competitions. The training has been designed to suit all abilities and fitness levels and will be open to anyone over the age of 16.

First launched in Germany in 2017, Hyrox is an inclusive global fitness race for people of all backgrounds and abilities. It was created to test participants’ limits through a combination of running and eight different strength and endurance workouts. The competition brings together thousands of participants with varying athletic backgrounds and fitness levels to race on one course.

Leisure Club Manager, Lee Clayton says: “Hyrox is described as the fastest growing sport in the world.

“In line with the growing trend for competitive fitness, our partnership offers another level of innovation to our fitness programmes, and will no doubt be a hit with members throughout our UK clubs.”

Hyrox is a fitness competition that combines 8km of running and eight functional workout stations.

Competitors run 1km, then complete a functional workout station, repeating this eight times.

The functional workouts include the SkiErg, Sled Push, Sled Pull, Burpee Broad Jumps, Rowing, Farmers Carry, Sandbag Lunges, and Wall Balls.

HYROX races are mostly held indoors in large exhibition halls across four racing categories, including a relay category where teams of two race.