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- Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max
Tabata et al., 1996. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 28(10):1327-1330.
Cited in 6 placesTrain to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Tabata intervals for VO2max: what the research actually used · How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change · How anaerobic capacity and VO2max work together · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program)
- A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of the effect of protein supplementation on resistance training-induced gains in muscle mass and strength in healthy adults
Morton et al., 2018. British Journal of Sports Medicine 52(6):376-384.
Cited in 4 placesProtein: how your body uses it, and how much you need · Train to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program)
- Effects of Resistance Training Frequency on Measures of Muscle Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Schoenfeld et al., 2016. Sports Medicine 46(11):1689-1697.
Cited in 4 placesTrain to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program) · Pattern Strength: 8-Week Full Body (program)
- Effectiveness of high-intensity interval training (HIT) and continuous endurance training for VO2max improvements: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials
Milanović et al., 2015. Sports Medicine 45(10):1469-1481.
Cited in 4 placesWhat VO2max is, and why it matters · Running to increase your VO2max · Tabata intervals for VO2max: what the research actually used · How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- No Time to Lift? Designing Time-Efficient Training Programs for Strength and Hypertrophy: A Narrative Review
Iversen et al., 2021. Sports Medicine 51(10):2079-2095.
Cited in 3 placesTrain to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program)
- Dose-response relationship between weekly resistance training volume and increases in muscle mass: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Schoenfeld et al., 2017. Journal of Sports Sciences 35(11):1073-1082.
Cited in 3 placesTrain to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program)
- Comparison of different strongman events: trunk muscle activation and lumbar spine motion, load, and stiffness
McGill et al., 2009. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 23(4):1148-1161.
Cited in 3 placesTrain to look good and carry weight in 40 minutes · Front Carry: 8-Week Strength & Aesthetics (40-Minute Sessions) (program) · Front Carry: 30-Day Express (20-Minute Sessions) (program)
- Relative running intensity and pacing during an official HYROX PRO MEN competition: the HYScience study
Gutiérrez-Hellín et al., 2026. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
Cited in 2 placesCompromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations · What a HYROX race actually demands
- Task specificity of dynamic resistance training and its transferability to non-trained isometric muscle strength: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Saeterbakken et al., 2025. Sports Medicine 55(7):1651-1676.
Cited in 2 placesTrain movement patterns, not muscles · Pattern Strength: 8-Week Full Body (program)
- The anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans
Trommelen et al., 2023. Cell Reports Medicine 4(12):101324.
Cited in 2 placesProtein: how your body uses it, and how much you need · Training for years without the social media body
- A review of the acute effects and long-term adaptations of single- and multi-joint exercises during resistance training
Gentil et al., 2017. Sports Medicine 47(5):843-855.
Cited in 2 placesTrain movement patterns, not muscles · Pattern Strength: 8-Week Full Body (program)
- International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand: protein and exercise
Jäger et al., 2017 (ISSN position stand). Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 14:20.
Cited in 2 placesAmino acids, and what protein quality actually means · Protein: how your body uses it, and how much you need
- The effects of adding single-joint exercises to a multi-joint exercise resistance training program on upper body muscle strength and size in trained men
de França et al., 2015. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 40(8):822-826.
Cited in 2 placesTrain movement patterns, not muscles · Pattern Strength: 8-Week Full Body (program)
- Effects of kettlebell training on aerobic capacity
Falatic et al., 2015. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 29(7):1943-1947.
Cited in 2 placesKettlebell circuits for VO2max: what the evidence supports · How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- The effects of high intensity interval training vs steady state training on aerobic and anaerobic capacity
Foster et al., 2015. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 14(4):747-755.
Cited in 2 placesTabata intervals for VO2max: what the research actually used · How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- Timing and distribution of protein ingestion during prolonged recovery from resistance exercise alters myofibrillar protein synthesis
Areta et al., 2013. The Journal of Physiology 591(9):2319-2331.
Cited in 2 placesProtein: how your body uses it, and how much you need · Training for years without the social media body
- VO2max trainability and high intensity interval training in humans: a meta-analysis
Bacon et al., 2013. PLOS ONE 8(9):e73182.
Cited in 2 placesRunning to increase your VO2max · Tabata intervals for VO2max: what the research actually used
- Effect of adding single-joint exercises to a multi-joint exercise resistance-training program on strength and hypertrophy in untrained subjects
Gentil et al., 2013. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 38(3):341-344.
Cited in 2 placesTrain movement patterns, not muscles · Pattern Strength: 8-Week Full Body (program)
- The effect of protein timing on muscle strength and hypertrophy: a meta-analysis
Schoenfeld et al., 2013. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 10(1):53.
Cited in 2 placesProtein: how your body uses it, and how much you need · Training for years without the social media body
- Cardiorespiratory fitness as a quantitative predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in healthy men and women: a meta-analysis
Kodama et al., 2009. JAMA 301(19):2024-2035.
Cited in 2 placesWhat VO2max is, and why it matters · How little training keeps your VO2max
- Aerobic high-intensity intervals improve VO2max more than moderate training
Helgerud et al., 2007. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 39(4):665-671.
Cited in 2 placesRunning to increase your VO2max · How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- Accelerated longitudinal decline of aerobic capacity in healthy older adults
Fleg et al., 2005. Circulation 112(5):674-682.
Cited in 2 placesWhat VO2max is, and why it matters · How little training keeps your VO2max
- Variability in muscle size and strength gain after unilateral resistance training
Hubal et al., 2005. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 37(6):964-972.
Cited in 2 placesTraining for years without the social media body · Should you train for your body type?
- Limiting factors for maximum oxygen uptake and determinants of endurance performance
Bassett and Howley, 2000. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 32(1):70-84.
Cited in 2 placesWhat VO2max is, and why it matters · Running to increase your VO2max
- Prevalence, burden and risk markers of health problems in HYROX athletes: a 12-week prospective cohort study
Chittenden et al., 2026. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 8:1937574.
Cited in What a HYROX race actually demands
- Where am I struggling? Detailed benchmarks for every workout and category in Hyrox competition
Fernández-Navarrete et al., 2026. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness.
Cited in What a HYROX race actually demands
- Longitudinal performance development in PRO and ELITE HYROX competitions across the first seven competitive seasons
Rappelt et al., 2026. Frontiers in Physiology 17:1847569.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Acute physiological responses and performance determinants in Hyrox: a new running-focused high intensity functional fitness trend
Brandt et al., 2025. Frontiers in Physiology 16:1519240.
Cited in What a HYROX race actually demands
- Durability in youth squad triathletes: influence of strenuous cycling on subsequent running performance, economy, and substrate utilization
Röhrs et al., 2025. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 20(7):907-917.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Cold urticaria syndromes: diagnosis and management
Diaz et al., 2023. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice 11(8):2275-2285.
- Cholinergic urticaria: subtype classification and clinical approach
Fukunaga et al., 2023. American Journal of Clinical Dermatology 24(1):41-54.
- Biomechanical and physiological implications to running after cycling and strategies to improve cycling to running transition: a systematic review
Rico Bini et al., 2022. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 25(10):861-866.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Discovering the sluggishness of triathlon running: using the attractor method to quantify the impact of the bike-run transition
Weich et al., 2022. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 4:1065741.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Strength training versus stretching for improving range of motion: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Afonso et al., 2021. Healthcare 9(4):427.
Cited in Why mobility matters, and what actually improves it
- Maintaining physical performance: the minimal dose of exercise needed to preserve endurance and strength over time
Spiering et al., 2021. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 35(5):1449-1458.
- Food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis
Foong et al., 2019. Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology 19(3):224-228.
- Effects of cycling on subsequent running performance, stride length, and muscle oxygen saturation in triathletes
Olcina et al., 2019. Sports 7(5):115.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Changes in kidney function do not differ between healthy adults consuming higher- compared with lower- or normal-protein diets: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Devries et al., 2018. The Journal of Nutrition 148(11):1760-1775.
Cited in Protein: how your body uses it, and how much you need
- Effect of low-fat vs low-carbohydrate diet on 12-month weight loss in overweight adults and the association with genotype pattern or insulin secretion: the DIETFITS randomized clinical trial
Gardner et al., 2018 (DIETFITS). JAMA 319(7):667-679.
Cited in Should you train for your body type?
- Association of cardiorespiratory fitness with long-term mortality among adults undergoing exercise treadmill testing
Mandsager et al., 2018. JAMA Network Open 1(6):e183605.
Cited in What VO2max is, and why it matters
- Branched-chain amino acid ingestion stimulates muscle myofibrillar protein synthesis following resistance exercise in humans
Jackman et al., 2017. Frontiers in Physiology 8:390.
Cited in Amino acids, and what protein quality actually means
- Acute effects of plyometric and resistance training on running economy in trained runners
Marcello et al., 2017. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 31(9):2432-2437.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Values for digestible indispensable amino acid scores (DIAAS) for some dairy and plant proteins may better describe protein quality than values calculated using the concept for protein digestibility-corrected amino acid scores (PDCAAS)
Mathai et al., 2017. British Journal of Nutrition 117(4):490-499.
Cited in Amino acids, and what protein quality actually means
- Branched-chain amino acids and muscle protein synthesis in humans: myth or reality?
Wolfe, 2017. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 14:30.
Cited in Amino acids, and what protein quality actually means
- Higher compared with lower dietary protein during an energy deficit combined with intense exercise promotes greater lean mass gain and fat mass loss: a randomized trial
Longland et al., 2016. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 103(3):738-746.
- Critical power: an important fatigue threshold in exercise physiology
Poole et al., 2016. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 48(11):2320-2334.
- Exercise-induced anaphylaxis
Feldweg, 2015. Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America 35(2):261-275.
- Combined strength and endurance session order: differences in force production and oxygen uptake
Taipale et al., 2015. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 10(4):418-425.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- The skeletal muscle anabolic response to plant- versus animal-based protein consumption
van Vliet et al., 2015. The Journal of Nutrition 145(9):1981-1991.
Cited in Amino acids, and what protein quality actually means
- The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Lauersen et al., 2014. British Journal of Sports Medicine 48(11):871-877.
Cited in Why mobility matters, and what actually improves it
- Polarized training has greater impact on key endurance variables than threshold, high intensity, or high volume training
Stöggl and Sperlich, 2014. Frontiers in Physiology 5:33.
Cited in Running to increase your VO2max
- Exercise intensity and energy expenditure of a Tabata workout
Emberts et al., 2013. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 12(3):612-613.
Cited in Tabata intervals for VO2max: what the research actually used
- Effects of body fat and dominant somatotype on explosive strength and aerobic capacity trainability in prepubescent children
Marta et al., 2013. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 27(12):3233-3244.
Cited in Should you train for your body type?
- Does pre-exercise static stretching inhibit maximal muscular performance? A meta-analytical review
Simic et al., 2013. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 23(2):131-148.
Cited in Why mobility matters, and what actually improves it
- Quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neuromotor fitness in apparently healthy adults: guidance for prescribing exercise
Garber et al., 2011 (ACSM position stand). Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 43(7):1334-1359.
Cited in What VO2max is, and why it matters
- Kettlebell training for musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health: a randomized controlled trial
Jay et al., 2011. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 37(3):196-203.
Cited in Kettlebell circuits for VO2max: what the evidence supports
- Validity and reliability analysis of Cooper's 12-minute run and the multistage shuttle run in healthy adults
Penry et al., 2011. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 25(3):597-605.
Cited in How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- Gait speed and survival in older adults
Studenski et al., 2011. JAMA 305(1):50-58.
Cited in Why mobility matters, and what actually improves it
- Oxygen cost of kettlebell swings
Farrar et al., 2010. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 24(4):1034-1036.
Cited in Kettlebell circuits for VO2max: what the evidence supports
- Effect of recovery duration from prior exhaustive exercise on the parameters of the power-duration relationship
Ferguson et al., 2010. Journal of Applied Physiology 108(4):866-874.
- Critical power: implications for determination of VO2max and exercise tolerance
Jones et al., 2010. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 42(10):1876-1890.
- Ingested protein dose response of muscle and albumin protein synthesis after resistance exercise in young men
Moore et al., 2009. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 89(1):161-168.
Cited in Protein: how your body uses it, and how much you need
- Protein intake and energy balance
Westerterp-Plantenga, 2008. Regulatory Peptides 149(1-3):67-69.
Cited in Protein: how your body uses it, and how much you need
- Exercise-induced vasculitis
Ramelet, 2006. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology 20(4):423-427.
- Factors influencing variation in basal metabolic rate include fat-free mass, fat mass, age, and circulating thyroxine but not sex, circulating leptin, or triiodothyronine
Johnstone et al., 2005. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 82(5):941-948.
Cited in Should you train for your body type?
- The wear and tear of 26.2: dermatological injuries reported on marathon day
Mailler and Adams, 2004. British Journal of Sports Medicine 38(4):498-501.
- Physiological and biomechanical adaptations to the cycle to run transition in Olympic triathlon: review and practical recommendations for training
Millet and Vleck, 2000. British Journal of Sports Medicine 34(5):384-390.
Cited in Compromised running: why your pace falls apart after HYROX stations
- Detraining: loss of training-induced physiological and performance adaptations. Part I: short term insufficient training stimulus
Mujika and Padilla, 2000. Sports Medicine 30(2):79-87.
Cited in How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- Fat-free mass index in users and nonusers of anabolic-androgenic steroids
Kouri et al., 1995. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 5(4):223-228.
- Prevalence of cholinergic urticaria in young adults
Zuberbier et al., 1994. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 31(6):978-981.
- Anaerobic capacity determined by maximal accumulated O2 deficit
Medbø et al., 1988. Journal of Applied Physiology 64(1):50-60.
- Reduced training intensities and loss of aerobic power, endurance, and cardiac growth
Hickson et al., 1985. Journal of Applied Physiology 58(2):492-499.
- Time course of loss of adaptations after stopping prolonged intense endurance training
Coyle et al., 1984. Journal of Applied Physiology 57(6):1857-1864.
Cited in How often to take the Cooper test, and how fast results change
- Reduced training duration effects on aerobic power, endurance, and cardiac growth
Hickson et al., 1982. Journal of Applied Physiology 53(1):225-229.
- Reduced training frequencies and maintenance of increased aerobic power
Hickson and Rosenkoetter, 1981. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 13(1):13-16.
- A means of assessing maximal oxygen intake. Correlation between field and treadmill testing
Cooper, 1968. JAMA 203(3):201-204.
Cited in What VO2max is, and why it matters
- The Varieties of Human Physique: An Introduction to Constitutional Psychology
Sheldon, 1940. Harper & Brothers, New York.
Cited in Should you train for your body type?
- Heath-Carter Methods of Somatotyping
Heath-Carter method. Anthropometry and Kinanthropometry, INFLIBNET e-PG Pathshala.
Cited in Should you train for your body type?
- The fitness race: format, stations and weights by division
HYROX official race format. hyrox.com.
Cited in What a HYROX race actually demands