HYROX Training Camp in the Algarve: 5-Night Race Prep with Titan Fitness

Days are built around two training blocks. Mornings tend to be the running and conditioning work — threshold sessions and technique drills that build the engine you need for a HYROX race. Afternoons move to the gym floor for strength and functional circuits: sled work, loaded carries, wall balls, burpees and the erg stations. Coaches watch your transitions between stations, because in HYROX the seconds you lose changing over add up fast.

What separates this from a general fitness holiday is that everything points at one event. The programming is HYROX-specific rather than generic bootcamp work, and the week ends with a full race simulation — every station, in order, at race pace. You leave knowing your splits and what to fix before race day.

The coaching crew is the other difference. Sarah gives pacing guidance so you do not blow up in the first kilometre. Mário breaks down the technical movements — sled push, sled pull, sandbag lunges — that most people lose time on. Orlaith covers nutrition and performance advice for training and race day. Between them they cover CrossFit, endurance training, weightlifting, mobility and functional strength.

The Algarve location does real work here. Warm-weather training lets you adapt and recover while training outdoors, and the camp runs throughout the year. Titan Fitness Algarve is an official HYROX Training Club Portugal, so the sessions follow the format the race actually uses.

Away from the gym, the week is deliberately unhurried. There is time for the pool, the beaches, ocean swims and an afternoon in Lagos. It is a training week with enough holiday in it that you arrive at race day fresh rather than wrecked.

What's included

- 5 nights' accommodation - Daily breakfast and lunch - Unlimited training - HYROX-specific skill sessions - Running and conditioning work - Hybrid workouts - A full HYROX simulation

What's not included

- Flights and travel to the Algarve - Airport transfers - Travel insurance - Dinners and meals outside breakfast and lunch - Personal expenses