Ever since Hyrox took off, half of Barcelona advertises “Hyrox training”. Most of it is circuit class under a new name. It isn’t bad faith: preparing for a Hyrox properly needs specific equipment, and not every room has it.
Here are the four things it does take, so you can check for yourself anywhere you look.
1. The actual station equipment, not something similar
A Hyrox is eight kilometres of running split into eight one-kilometre legs, with a station between each one. The stations can’t be improvised:
- SkiErg — there’s no substitute. Either it’s there or it isn’t.
- Push and pull sled — and a floor it slides on. This is what conventional gyms are missing most.
- Rower
- Heavy kettlebells for the farmers carry, with enough distance to walk two hundred metres without doing fifty laps.
- Sandbag for the lunges.
- Target and ball for wall balls.
If the sled or the SkiErg is missing, you can’t train the specific race. You can get very fit, but on race day you’ll meet two stations you’ve never done.
2. Space to run, not just to lift
What separates a Hyrox from a circuit is that you run eight kilometres on loaded legs. Training the stations separately and going for a run on another day doesn’t prepare that.
You need to be able to chain running and a station within the same session. Indoor track, treadmill or a route out the door — but it has to be possible back to back.
3. Block programming, not a one-off WOD
Going from running to pushing a sled and back to running is a skill in itself, and it’s trainable. A well-built session reproduces that switch several times, at set paces, not “let’s see who lasts longest”.
Ask whether the Hyrox session has week-by-week progression or is just a different workout each day with no thread. Both will tire you out; only one makes you better.
4. Separate strength work
This is where a lot of people arriving from running come unstuck. The sled and the farmers carry aren’t won with endurance, they’re won with strength. If the place has no dedicated barbell strength day, you’ll stall on exactly the stations that cost the most time.
That’s why what works best is combining the Hyrox session with a strength one and, ideally, with hybrid training, which is precisely that: strength and endurance ordered so they don’t cancel each other out.
Where it is in Barcelona
At KOR the Hyrox session is one of the four on the timetable, not a seasonal extra, and it runs at Les Corts and Arc de Triomf. Both rooms have the station equipment and space to run indoors, and one membership covers all four clubs, so you can do your strength days in Badalona or Mollet too.
The full detail of how we work Hyrox is on the Hyrox in Barcelona page.
The quick way to check
Walk in, look for a sled and a SkiErg, and ask when the Hyrox session runs. That alone tells you whether the place prepares Hyrox or just mentions it. The first class is free: come on a Hyrox day and find out by training.