The ski-erg is in the news. Many fitness writers are singing its praises.
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Why the attention? It’s all about HYROX racing. See How Hyrox became the latest sporting craze. HYROX Toronto is coming up this fall, October 3-5th.
Here’s the drill:
The SkiErg is the first station in a HYROX event. You need to complete 1000m on the SkiErg, which comes after the first 1km run. Following this, you will run a further 7km and complete 7 other functional stations (sled push, sled pull, burpee broad jumps, rowing, farmers carries, walking lunges and wall balls).
Now I can’t run so there’ll be no HYROX racing in my future, but past me, runner me, would have loved this event.
I love farmer’s carries and sled pushing and pulling.
So I’ve been looking on in envy at this event that’s growing fast in popularity. Sarah and I work with a personal trainer at the fancy gym and he’s doing a HYROX event this fall and is starting to train.
That means he’s starting to incorporate some of the HYROX events into our workouts. (YAY!)
Yesterday it was wall balls and the ski-erg.
I remember wall balls from my CrossFit days.
The ski-erg I’ve done once or twice before knee surgery when I needed upper body cardio. This time Sarah and I had fun racing each other to see how fast we could complete 300 m. We did it twice and came within a few seconds of each other.
It’s fun. Like the rowing machine, it’s the kind of strength plus cardio event I enjoy. Also, technique matters. We’ll definitely do it again.
I love the ski erg. Been using it for years – Move always had it and the bruh gym I went to briefly.
Re HYROX the stations, themselves interest me, but not the vibe from what I’ve seen from last year and people I know who participated. Too competitive and hectic.