If you’re racing HYROX soon — or trying to build toward elite level performance — this episode covers two massive topics:
1. How to properly taper and prepare in the final week before race day
2. What the new HYROX Elite qualification system means for athletes
This isn’t surface-level advice. This is long-term performance thinking.
Let’s break it down.
Part 1: How to Taper for HYROX (Without Sabotaging Yourself)
As race day approaches, most athletes fall into one of two traps:
* Doing
Early in the episode, Meg Jacoby shares a real-time update on her knee issue. The headline is simple:
She’s choosing a conservative recovery plan now to avoid a bigger problem later.
What is PRP?
PRP stands for Platelet-Rich Plasma. In basic terms:
1. Blood is drawn
2. Platelets and plasma are separated
3. That concentrated solution is injected into the injury area (in Meg’s case, the knee joint)
The goal is to support healing by using your body’s own biological processes.
The part mo
By Rich Ryan | RMR Training
Walking lunges have never been my strength.
I could survive them. I could manage them. But at the elite end of HYROX, “managing” a station isn’t good enough anymore. You can’t afford to give away 15–20 seconds late in the race and expect to stay competitive.
So this training block, I finally stopped avoiding the problem—and started treating walking lunges like the performance limiter they are.
This article breaks down exactly how I’ve been training walking lunges
I’ve always felt like I was a dead-serious athlete. Even so, I don’t always give myself the appropriate space to truly reflect and become aware of where I am in my journey and how I can improve. It’s usually all in my head — but there’s something different about putting it down on paper (or in a doc) and really spending time with yourself.
So here’s a reflection I did to help set myself up for 2026.
You should do it too — you can get the doc here (make a copy to edit and save).
Take 45–60 min
I have become a better HYROX athlete through sports nutrition.
It’s a fact.
The sports nutrition research and product development have been really exciting over the past few years
But, as always in this space, there are a lot of products that do nothing.
Sports nutrition has long been the Wild West.
Luckily for you, I’m kind of like a Wyatt Earp–type character.
But really...
....I’ve been a brand partner with TheFeed.Com (an online marketplace for sports nutrition) for the past 12 months.
Ryan Kent just went through one of the wildest HYROX stretches we’ve seen: 9 races in ~11 weeks, constant travel, and a full-on mindset rebuild after a tough run of DNFs. In this episode, Rich Ryan and Ryan break down what that kind of race density does to your body, your training, and (more impo...
Rich Ryan and elite Hyrox athlete Meg MJ Jacoby break down training, racing, and recovery while balancing real life. From Rich’s first weeks as a new dad to MJ’s return to peak Hyrox form after injury, this episode covers how to train smarter, race less, and improve performance through patience, ...
If you’ve ever stepped into a HYROX race and thought, “Why does the SkiErg feel so easy in training but so evil on race day?” — you’re not alone.
The ERGs are small pieces of the overall time, but they have an outsized impact on your heart rate, fatigue, and ability to actually run well between stations. And if your damper settings or stroke rates are even a little off? Yeah… they’ll let you know.
In our latest episode of the RMR Training Podcast, we sat down with world-record erg machine Jame
Coach Ryan kicks off this episode solo — Rich Ryan is on dad duty (congrats, Rich!), and Meg is out in Madrid casually dropping a 58:40 like it’s nothing. Elite 15? Yeah, she’s back.
Joining the pod:
⭐ Colin Steeper
⭐ Jack Driscoll
Two athletes on a tear, two athletes who keep showing up, and two guys I’ve had the pleasure of competing with over the last few weeks.
The Melbourne Roll-Down That Shocked All of Us
Colin and I both woke up to a surprise email:
“Congrats, you’re in for Melbourn
This week’s episode of the RMR Training Podcast kicks off with something you already know if you’ve listened for more than 10 seconds:
Meg is hilarious, Rich is barely holding things together, and the conversation somehow ends up deep, scientific, and wildly relatable.
But before the chaos begins…
Meg’s Half Marathon PR: The Plot Twist No One Saw Coming
Meg rolled into a half marathon without a dedicated block… and still walked away with a 1:18:01.
But here’s the part that shocked her (and
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My name is Rich Ryan — I’m a 3x HYROX Elite 15 qualifier and hoping for a 4th this season.
I’ve run sub-55 for solo Pro HYROX and sub-49 in Pro Doubles.
I train a lot, and I think about training and HYROX a lot.
Training and racing make up a major part of my full-time profession.
So when it comes to the products I use, I take the time to research seriously.
I’ve t
