🎙️ Episode 12: Jake Hendry - From CrossFit to HYROX | Training, Coaching & Future Ambitions

Do you feel like your background in CrossFit, so not necessarily the strength stuff, 'cause obviously you weren't, like, the strongest CrossFitter going.

Mm.

Do you feel like your background in strength in, in CrossFit, as in, like, the shorter, higher output stuff has helped you with the Hyrox? Do you think it was, like, an, a comfy transition over?

Yeah, I think, like, [clears throat] I think I- I think CrossFit has made me and makes most people really comfortable at, in zone four, zone five.

Yeah, the suffering.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

I, I, like...

Man, when I ran my half marathon, my average heart rate was 186.

Nice.

[laughs]

That was, and that was with, that was with a chest strap, so, like, it was legit.

When I run, when I ran my marathon, it was, like, 177 or something.

[chuckles] I'm, I, I can just sit, I can sit in the red zone for a long time.

Yeah.

And whenever I've done VO2 max tests and stuff like that, like, I'll sit right below the tip over point for a long time, and then I'll just push a little bit, and then I'm cooked.

Cooked.

So I think, like, I, I learnt that in my Hyrox in, in March.

Like, I went out, I didn't know who anyone was, so I went out with people that were way better runners than me and tried to run with them.

And, like, I did for a while, but just made myself suffer, and I probably could have got a way better result if I paced myself a bit better-

Yeah

... or attacked it in a different way.

But I do think CrossFit just really makes you comfortable at suffering.

I think one thing that a lot of Hyrox athletes don't do is that they don't have the experience and the time in that high zone four, zone five, like, learning to suffer.

And I think that that's also why my compromise running is probably not much worse than my actual running.