Inverness Leisure and Aviemore Community Centre among High Life Highland’s venues set to offer HYROX training this summer
Three High Live Highland centres across the region are set to introduce a new training format to their offering this summer.
Inverness Leisure, Aviemore Community Centre and Lochaber Leisure Centre are all rolling out HYROX training.
Billed as “the ultimate fitness race”, HYROX (which stands for “hybrid rockstar”) is an indoors blend of running and a number of workout stations, and has become increasingly popular since it was first launched in 2018.
Ross Dudgeon, facilities manager at Inverness Leisure explained: “HYROX is the ultimate training in functional fitness. It is accessible, fun, engaging, challenging, and gets athletes of any age or ability in great shape.
“What makes it so accessible is its low entry point and simple functional movements, scalable from beginner to expert level. HYROX training combines eight workouts, running within a structured system.
“It’s a new take on the traditional fitness class, with HYROX turning fitness into a real sport, which can be enjoyed by the everyday gym goer as well as elite athletes.
“We are really excited to be bringing HYROX training to Inverness Leisure – with four taster sessions per week in the Strength & Conditioning Room to begin with but with something much bigger to follow! Watch this space!”
While HYROX is associated with large competition events, the training takes the fundamentals and turns them into a “comprehensive approach to performance fitness”.
It resembles traditional circuit training with the objective being to build baseline fitness in participants, covering strength, endurance, aerobic capacity, agility and skill work.
Graeme Ross, head of leisure with High Life Highland said: “The introduction of HYROX training to High Life is a really exciting one for us and we are positive it will prove very popular. We hope to be able to introduce regular HYROX simulation events once we have the programme established within these sites. It’s a great new addition to the timetable.
“Furthermore, we hope to extend HYROX training to other High Life Highland sites in the future with HYROX heading to Ross-shire within a matter of months.”
