Key Takeaways
- MyFitnessPal is now the official Title Partner of HYROX Tampa and is partnering with Robin Arzón, Vice President of Fitness Programming and Head Instructor at Peloton, to bring free training recipes to HYROX athletes.
- HYROX now expects more than two million athletes to compete this year across six continents and 107 events, making it one of the fastest-growing fitness competitions in the world.
- The format, eight kilometers of running broken up by eight functional workout stations with no break, leaves no room to recover from a nutrition mistake mid-race.
- Arzón’s own account of training for HYROX reflects a broader pattern in endurance and functional fitness, where nutrition is increasingly treated as the foundation of performance.
Every health goal, from energy to performance, starts with food. That principle has always been true for MyFitnessPal members managing their weight or building better habits. It is becoming just as true for competitive athletes, and HYROX is where that shift is most visible right now.
A Format That Leaves No Margin for Error
HYROX combines eight kilometers of running with eight functional workout stations, back to back, with no break in between. More than two million athletes are expected to compete across six continents and 107 events this year, making it one of the fastest-growing fitness competitions in the world. The growth is matched by what the format demands of the athletes training for it.
There is no pacing your way out of a bad fueling decision in a HYROX race. The same discipline athletes bring to their training plan now has to apply to what they eat, and that has made nutrition as central to HYROX preparation as the workout itself.
MyFitnessPal is now the official Title Partner of HYROX Tampa. Alongside that, we are partnering with Robin Arzón, Vice President of Fitness Programming and Head Instructor at Peloton and a longtime MyFitnessPal user, who recently set a personal best at a HYROX Pro race. Select recipes from her cookbook, Eat to Hustle, are now available free in the MyFitnessPal app, along with a new HYROX-specific recipe collection built for race training.
Fueling Ahead of the Workout
Arzón has described what changed once she stopped treating nutrition as something to figure out on the fly. “I don’t have to think about what to eat anymore,” she said. “MyFitnessPal tells me exactly what I need to fuel my body, taking the guesswork out of training so I can focus on the workout in front of me.”
She crossed the finish line at her most recent HYROX Pro race faster than she ever had before, and she credits the difference to how she fueled her training. “Once you feel what it’s like to actually fuel a race instead of just surviving it, you want everyone training around you to feel that too,” she said. “Momentum is contagious in that way.”
Fueling a race and surviving it produce different results, and MyFitnessPal is built to help close that gap. That is what personalized nutrition guidance offers athletes training for a race like this, information they can act on before the workout that matters.
What This Means for Endurance and Race Training
HYROX is not the only place this is showing up. Marathon training blocks and CrossFit competitions have both seen training volume and intensity climb faster than most athletes’ understanding of how to eat for it. Moritz Fürste, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at HYROX, put it directly. “HYROX athletes train hard and they train often, and MyFitnessPal understands that performance is built well before race day.”
MyFitnessPal was never built around a single goal. Members come to the platform for weight loss, muscle gain, longevity, or general health, and the guidance adapts to whichever one they’re pursuing. A HYROX race or a marathon is simply the latest goal on that list.
Twenty years of helping people understand what they eat is what makes that possible. Fuel comes first. Everything else, the training plan, the race, the personal best, is built on top of it.
Arzón’s cookbook recipes, including her high-protein staples from Eat to Hustle, are available now for free and a limited time in the MyFitnessPal app, alongside the new HYROX-specific collection built for race training.