The HYROX Doubles Playbook: A Practical Training Guide to Partner Workouts, Pacing, and Race Strategy—from Your First Finish to Your Next Personal Best ... Everything You Need to Improve at Hyrox)

Train with a shared purpose. Race with a plan you both understand. How should you split the stations? What happens when your running abilities differ? And how do you prepare together when work, family, and training schedules rarely line up? The HYROX Doubles Playbook helps you turn those questions into practical decisions—from choosing your partner and setting a realistic goal to managing changeovers, pacing, and the final wall balls. Written for first-time competitors and experienced pairs pursuing a personal best, Alex Harper’s guide keeps the partnership at the centre of preparation. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Build a workable partnership: assess both athletes, agree expectations, and organise training around your lives. Develop race-relevant fitness: combine running, strength, and station practice, including learning to run after loaded work. Prepare for all eight stations: choose work blocks, rehearse changeovers, and create alternatives when fatigue changes the plan. Follow your training pathway: use a 12-week first-race plan with a foundation option, or a 12-week personal-best block focused on your team’s biggest opportunity. Make better race-day decisions: plan your opening effort, work allocation, communication, nutrition, and navigation. Learn from the finish: review what happened without blame and agree what to improve next. Practical worksheets and planning tools help you put the guidance to work. Build athlete profiles, organise your week, track fatigue, write a team race plan, and prepare a shared fallback. You don’t need identical strengths or matching training backgrounds. You need preparation that respects both athletes—and a strategy you’ve practised together. Whether your goal is a confident first finish or a better next performance, start building the plan you can both follow.