Gym goers on a high after first highlife Hyrox Sim event!
High Life Highland has fully embraced the fitness phenomenon that is Hyrox with training classes now taking place in highlife leisure centres in Aviemore, Grantown, Inverness and Fort William – with Lochaber Leisure hosting its first ever Hyrox Simulation (Sim) event at the weekend.
High Life Highland is aiming to increase the number of its leisure centres offering Hyrox training, which takes Hyrox fundamentals and turns them into a comprehensive approach to performance fitness that caters for anyone. It resembles traditional circuit training with the objective being to build baseline fitness in participants covering strength, endurance, aerobic capacity, agility and skill work.
Yesterday (Sunday 14 September), 49 dedicated highlife Hyrox training regulars took part in High Life Highland’s first ever Hyrox Sim event, which took place at Lochaber High School. The event was a great opportunity, not only for participants to put all their Hyrox training into practice but also give leisure staff valuable experience in hosting a Hyrox Sim – which the charity intends to host more of in the future.
Leisure Manager Gary Davidson said: “Our first Hyrox Sim was a massive success with all our participants really going for it and enjoying the challenge of a timed event, designed to feel like a real Hyrox race. It was really satisfying to see all their hard work in the training sessions come to fruition. Everyone really enjoyed the day and we look forward to being able to host another Sim event here in the near future.”
Inverness Leisure has recently expanded its Hyrox training programme, with a special fit out of Studio 3 to accommodate more people and more classes. There are now 10 Hyrox training classes per week, with 40 spaces in each class.
Ross Dudgeon, Inverness Leisure Manager said: “We are delighted to be able to offer 400 spaces per week for Hyrox training now we have adapted Studio 3 to accommodate this popular class and a date for our first Sim event will be announced soon.”
So popular has Hyrox been in Badenoch and Strathspey that High Life Highland now has both Aviemore Community Centre and the Craig Maclean Leisure Centre in Grantown as official Hyrox training clubs.
Fraser Tulloch, Leisure Manager for Badenoch and Strathspey commented: “Hyrox has really captured the imagination of members here. They are really dedicated to it even though all our classes are early mornings. And it really is for everyone with a wide range of ages and abilities turning up every week.”
Graeme Ross, Head of Leisure at High Life Highland said: “At High Life Highland we want to make sure we are giving our customers what they want and there is such a buzz around Hyrox. It’s proving really popular across all current sites that we have had to find ways to expand the offering so no-one is left disappointed. Our ambition is to grow Hyrox further with other leisure centres becoming official Hyrox training clubs and to give those Hyrox devotees something to work towards in terms of an increasing number of bigger Sim events – watch this space!”
