Sports Science
She's entered a Hyrox and brought a plan she found online. Running it through the system beats coaching it blind
From the FASTER syllabus: this article is taught in full in Speed for Sport (Stop Turn Accelerate), for change of direction that holds up under fatigue →
In short: A client training for a Hyrox usually turns up with a plan copied from somewhere online. FASTER has no Hyrox course and does not need one: Motor Skill Application Specialist runs a borrowed plan through research and design, and Speed for Sport builds the change of direction and stopping the race actually asks for under fatigue.
The short version
A client tells you she has entered a Hyrox. Then she hands you a plan, screenshotted from an influencer's page or copied off a forum, and asks you to run it for her. You could coach it as written. Or you could do what the plan itself never did, run it through research and design before a single session gets built around it. That second option is the entire point of two FASTER courses, and neither of them has "Hyrox" in the title.
Key Takeaways
- Hyrox has appeared in zero of FASTER's blog posts before this one, against a background where research, pain and performance come up constantly.
- There is no FASTER Hyrox course, and there does not need to be one. It is mixed-modal training under fatigue, which the existing system already covers.
- Motor Skill Application Specialist checks the borrowed plan. Speed for Sport builds the change of direction and stopping that plan usually skips.
The hook and the system
Hyrox is popular enough now that clients arrive already entered, already following a plan they found themselves, and already expecting you to just run it. Refusing that outright is a bad move, she has already committed the entry fee and the training block. The better move is the one the industry rarely offers, checking whether what she is holding fits her before you build a single session around it.
That is what a FASTER trainer does with any borrowed plan, Hyrox or otherwise. Which is the whole argument: this is not a subject that needed its own course, it is an existing system doing its job on a new label.
What MSAS does with a borrowed plan
Motor Skill Application Specialist starts exactly where this client already is, with the popular videos and programmes people follow before they ever meet a trainer. It takes that starting point through research and exercise design, so you finish able to say precisely what in the plan holds up and what does not, and why. That is confidence you can defend to the client, not a hunch you are hoping is right.
What Speed for Sport adds
A Hyrox race is built from stations linked by running, which means the skill that decides how the day goes is changing speed, changing direction and stopping, repeatedly, on tired legs. Speed for Sport (Stop Turn Accelerate) teaches those three skills directly, and gives you a method instead of a guess for building them into a client's programme. A plan that only asks someone to move fast in a straight line has already missed the part of the race that breaks people.
The system underneath it
This is rule the tool, one level up. A trainer who can research a borrowed plan and build real change of direction under fatigue does not need a course fenced off around one race format, any more than they need one for a kettlebell or a suspension trainer. The same two skills apply to the next client with a different goal. That is the offer, and it holds up better than a certificate with "Hyrox" printed on it would.
What to do next
Speed for Sport is £600 and gets you the change of direction skill on its own. Motor Skill Application Specialist is £1,800 and gets you the research and design skill for any plan a client brings you, Hyrox or otherwise. Both count as active learning, so PT Manager keeps running while you study and stays free once you have passed.
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Frequently asked
Does FASTER have a Hyrox course?
No, and it does not need one. Hyrox is mixed-modal work under fatigue, which Motor Skill Application Specialist and Speed for Sport already cover as skills, not as a separate certificate.
My client's Hyrox plan came from an influencer, is that automatically wrong?
Not automatically. The point is not to distrust every plan on principle, it is to have the research skill to check what holds up and what does not before you run it on a real person.
What does Speed for Sport change for a Hyrox client?
It builds the three skills under the fatigue a Hyrox race demands, changing speed, changing direction and stopping, so a station-to-station transition holds up late in the race instead of falling apart.
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