HYROX training and racing, talked through honestly
Rich Ryan hosts conversations about HYROX training and racing, joined by co-hosts Meg Jacoby and Ryan Kent. Episodes move between listener Q&A, volume and zone debates, erg work, and blunt post-race breakdowns of what actually happened on the floor.
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HYROX has grown fast enough to need its own shop talk, and this is a show built for that. Rich Ryan hosts, with Meg Jacoby and Ryan Kent as co-hosts, and the three trade what they have learned as athletes and coaches. Rich has made the Elite 15 world championships four times. Meg is a former world champion. Ryan is a former North American champion. Episode formats vary week to week. Some are three-way conversations, some are one-on-one interviews, and some are Rich alone with a stack of listener questions gathered through Instagram. The training content is specific. Zone 3 and where it fits. Aerobic versus threshold work on the ergs, and what that means for stroke rate. Roughly twenty minutes on each machine per week as a practical floor for athletes who simply are not familiar with them. Nutrition for performance. Volume gets a full episode and still does not resolve neatly, which the hosts admit outright. That episode also surfaces a genuine split in coaching philosophy: Rich reads intensity off what his body gives him on a given day, adjusting pace while holding intent, while Meg writes her paces down weeks ahead and progresses them on schedule. Race breakdowns carry the most weight. After the North American Championships in Washington, D.C., Rich went in as the number two seed, finished eighth, and walked through the whole thing without softening it, scoring his own tactics three out of ten and tracing the trouble back to going out too hard on the first two runs. Watching the elite field in London becomes an argument about pacing and which stations deserve the most attention. Meg's injury episode is quieter and heavier, covering the season she had to withdraw from and the mental work of removing any target date from her head. The state of the sport comes up too, including how the Elite 15 qualification system awards points across a 365-day window and five race opportunities. Conversations start with catch-up before sliding into training, drift into a story, then circle back to the coaching point. Terms go undefined when the hosts assume you already know them. Cross-training, the BikeErg, and building aerobic fitness away from running are regular ground. The RMR Training app and its coaching community get mentioned often. What holds it together is the willingness to think out loud rather than deliver conclusions.
Made for: HYROX and hybrid athletes who already train seriously and want the reasoning behind pacing, volume, and station strategy rather than beginner explainers. It suits listeners comfortable with erg, zone, and race jargon used at speed.
What sets it apart: The hosts race at the level they are analyzing, so the race breakdowns include their own bad days, including an eighth-place finish taken apart in public. Coaching disagreements are aired rather than smoothed over, leaving listeners with two defensible approaches instead of one house answer.
Training and racing conversations for the HYROX, and Hybrid athletes. The RMR Training podcast features elite coaches and world-champion athletes Rich Ryan, Meg Jacoby, and Ryan Kent.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A practical HYROX Q&A on zones, ergs, qualification, mobility, and smarter training choices.
Rich Ryan's solo Q&A frames HYROX training as a series of practical choices, not a fixed race-day recipe. He moves through Zone 3, aerobic and threshold work on the ergs, stroke rate, damper setting, pace, and heart rate, then broadens into the Elite 15 qualification system,…
Meg Jacoby turns an uncertain injury timeline into a grounded conversation about resilience and rebuilding.
Meg Jacoby's injury turns into a measured look at what training can become when a season has to be set aside. She talks through moving away from Hyrox-specific work and putting more attention on the value of each session, while trying to keep the Achilles, quads, hamstrings, and…
A practical conversation about adjusting High Rocks volume while keeping the workout's purpose intact.
Volume sits at the center of this RMR Training Podcast episode: how much work helps High Rocks progress, what counts as too little, and where more starts to become counterproductive.
A candid HYROX race postmortem on pacing, tactics, and rebuilding confidence after an elite start unravels.
Rich Ryan's review of the HYROX North American Championships in Washington, D.C., works best as a precise postmortem of a race that got away from him early.
A practical HYROX discussion on altitude, heat, footwear, and DC race prep.
Altitude training gets a grounded, practical pass as Rich Ryan and Ryan Kent talk through Kent's Colorado camp and what it means for HYROX preparation.
A grounded discussion of using one race to make better choices for the next stretch.
A season opener turns into a practical test of judgment as Rich Ryan and the group sort through which race information is actually useful for what comes next.
A clear, practical case for judging coaching by race preparation, running progression, and the structure behind hard work.
The episode pushes back on a common training trap: confusing exhaustion with race readiness. Its argument is clearest when it separates hard workouts from actual coaching, with coaching framed as the work of structuring a week, periodizing training, building running progression,…
German coaching talk for stronger race days.
Trainer education with gym-floor consequences.
Home-workout coaching for real-life CrossFitters.
California news through behavior, health, and systems.
Practical strength coaching without the gloss.
Discipline, training, and conscious living.
This episode discusses when to transition from Open to Pro category in HYROX racing.
Ryan Kent and Meg Jacoby discuss training smarter for HYROX, focusing on balancing easy and hard sessions.
The RMR Training Podcast hosts—Rich Ryan, Meg Jacoby, and Ryan Kent—catch up after their season-opening HYROX races.
Rich Ryan answers listener questions about Hyrox training, including zone 3, erg threshold work, Elite 15 qualification, year-round training adjustments, and diet.
Meg Jacoby shares lessons learned from her injury and mental/physical rehab, emphasizing mental resilience and mindfulness.
The hosts discuss how to think about volume in HYROX and endurance training, including how much is enough or too much, and share their personal practices.
Rich Ryan shares observations from elite HYROX racing in London, covering running, pacing, station importance, and race strategy.
Rich Ryan and Meg Jacoby discuss building elite fitness through cross-training with BikeErg and ergs, focusing on high rocks performance.
Rich Ryan says he "went out too hard and died" after the sled pull in Washington, D.C.
Ryan Kent says altitude at 6,000 feet can make sea level feel like "a V8 engine" after "a V6."
This episode compares DEKA and HYROX fitness competitions, offering training tips and race strategies for athletes.
Rich Ryan discusses VO2 max intervals for HYROX, including what they are, how to use them, and when to avoid them, with a focus on training optimization.
Rich Ryan and co-host discuss how to structure HYROX training using macro, meso, and micro cycles for effective planning.
The hosts discuss tapering strategies for Hyrox races, with a focus on the upcoming world championships and a controversial opinion on tapering.