HYROX Training Camp in Champagne: 3-Day Performance Escape Near Paris

The camp is built around the HYROX race format: eight functional stations separated by one-kilometre runs. Across three days you work on the stations that eat the most time, then practise putting them together under fatigue. Day 1's "Efficient Stations" workshop is the technical foundation. Day 2's Compromised Long session is where you apply it over a longer, harder effort. Day 3's relay is the test, run as a team.

What separates this from a generic fitness weekend is the coaching. Maxime Krantz has over ten years of coaching behind him and has raced HYROX across Europe, and he specialises in hybrid athletes, people who need to be strong and fit at the same time rather than good at one and hopeless at the other. His sessions mix physical preparation, cardio, mobility and nutrition, and he adjusts the load per person rather than running everyone through the same numbers.

The venue is a private 14-hectare estate in the Champagne region, 45 minutes from Paris, with a 250 m² dojo, a dedicated HYROX gym, a pump track, BMX tracks and a running track. There's also open ground and farm trails, which is what the Day 2 trail run uses. You're training outdoors as well as in the gym, and the site is quiet enough that the only thing on the schedule is the schedule.

Accommodation is in renovated cottages on the estate, in twin, double, triple or quadruple rooms, with a few minutes' walk to the restaurant where all meals are served. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included from dinner on Day 1 through lunch on Day 3, and snacks are available in the guesthouse. Chef Juan Arbelaez oversees the food.

The practical side is straightforward. You arrive at 4 Rue du Clos des vignettes, La Neuville en Chaillois, 51150 Val de Livre, at 2pm on Day 1 and leave from the same address at 3:30pm on Day 3. Reims Centre and Champagne-Ardenne TGV are the nearest stations, and there's parking on site if you drive. Everything except your travel there is covered, including gym clothes and a pair of training shoes handed out at the end.

What's included

- 2 nights accommodation in a shared room in a comfortable guesthouse - All meals from dinner on Day 1 to lunch on Day 3 - Coaching and supervision of all activities by Maxime Krantz - HYROX Technique workshop on Day 1 - Hyrox Compromised Long session on Day 2 - Farm Loop Experience trail run - HYROX strength workshops - Mobility, stretching and heart coherence sessions - Farm Hybrid Relay Clash on Day 3 - Open discussion session on HYROX training, equipment and strategy - Access to the estate's sports facilities, including HYROX gym and dojo - Workout clothes and a gym shoes at the end of the camp - Return transfer to the train station on Day 3

What's not included

- Travel to and from the camp - Any meals not listed (breakfast and lunch on Day 1, dinner on Day 3) - Flex fare and insurance - Personal expenses - Anything not listed under "Price includes"