What are Hyrox station standards and baselines?

Station standards are the official movement and equipment rules for your Hyrox division. Station baselines are your current times and capacities on those movements — plus run pace — that Velox uses to personalize race-prep plans. Standards define the test; baselines describe you.

Updated 24 September 2026

Standards vs baselines

Official standards tell you what the station requires on race day: the movement pattern and the equipment rules for your category. Those details can change by season and division, so Velox does not treat a blog table as law. Confirm standards with the organizer before you race.

Baselines answer a different question: given those movements, what can you do today? Logging SkiErg, Sled Push, Sled Pull, Burpee Broad Jump, Rowing, Farmers Carry, Sandbag Lunges, Wall Balls, and run pace gives Velox a map of strengths and limiters.

What each baseline is trying to capture

SkiErg: sustainable upper-body pull output.
Sled Push: driving power and posture under load.
Sled Pull: pull endurance, rhythm, and grip.
Burpee Broad Jump: repeated hip extension under fatigue.
Rowing: efficient full-body erg pacing.
Farmers Carry: carry capacity, trunk, and grip.
Sandbag Lunges: unilateral strength-endurance.
Wall Balls: squat-throw durability at the end of work.
Runs: kilometer pace you can repeat between stations.

How Velox uses baselines

Baselines feed the personalized plan. If sleds are the limiter, Hyrox-specific sessions and supporting strength work rise in priority. If runs fade after mid-course stations, the calendar emphasizes linked run-station training and simulations. Progress is not only “more workouts completed” — it is baselines moving in the directions that matter for your race.

Tracking in Velox keeps sessions, body metrics, and standing cards beside those numbers so you see the story over weeks, not just a single test day.

How to log baselines well

Use movement patterns that match your event’s standards.
Warm up, then test with repeatable effort — not one reckless PR.
Note conditions (fresh vs fatigued) so retests are comparable.
Retest after training blocks, not every day.

Field context without inventing “good times”

Athletes often ask what a “good” Hyrox time is. The honest answer depends on division, course, and experience. Velox provides comparison context using more than 1.2 million Hyrox finisher results — race results used to tailor programming and insights, not a claim about Velox app user counts. Read how benchmarks work. This page does not publish percentile tables; those appear only when verified figures are approved for release.

Connect baselines to the rest of prep

Once baselines exist, use them to drive plan length and phases, pacing practice, and station focus from the stations overview. The point of standards knowledge is compliance on race day. The point of baselines is better training tomorrow.

Why athletes confuse standards with goals

A standard is the rule of the test. A goal is a performance target you choose. Mixing them creates bad training. You can meet every movement standard and still miss the finish you wanted. You can also chase a finish time while quietly failing standards — which does not count on race day. Train to the official standard for your division, then use baselines to set goals that are ambitious and measurable.

Velox keeps you honest by making baselines part of the plan instead of optional journal entries. When the plan asks for sled work, it is because your numbers say sleds matter.

Retesting cadence

Retest when a training block ends, when a simulation reveals a mismatch, or when equipment access changes enough that old numbers are misleading. Do not retest every session. Constant testing is not progress; it is noise. Between tests, train the limiters and track session completion quality.

Using baselines with friends and standing cards

Sharing Hyrox standing cards can make training social and visible. Friendly comparison works best when everyone understands division context and that training baselines are not identical to race-day results. Use social pressure to show up — not to inflate numbers.

From measurement to programming

Measurement without programming is trivia. Programming without measurement is vibes. Velox connects them: baselines in, plan out, calendar execution, tracking feedback, then updated baselines. Layer on station knowledge, plan structure, pacing, and simulation so the whole system points at race day.

When you want to interpret your numbers against a large set of race finishers, use the benchmarks page. It explains the 1.2 million finisher dataset and what it is not. Numeric percentile tables will be published only when verified figures are ready.

Checklist before race week

Confirm your division’s current official standards.
Know your latest baselines and which stations are limiters.
Have practiced transitions in at least one simulation.
Have a pacing plan for runs and late-race stations.
Have recovery scheduled after your last hard rehearsal.

Common baseline logging mistakes

Testing completely fresh and expecting the same numbers after eight kilometers of racing.
Changing equipment every retest and treating the results as comparable.
Skipping weak stations in testing because they are unpleasant.
Logging only a finish-time goal with no station breakdown.
Retesting so often that training quality collapses.

Avoid those mistakes and baselines become a coaching tool you carry in your pocket. Velox then has something real to program against, and your simulations have something real to validate.

Where to go next

Know the stations, build a plan, practice pacing, rehearse with simulations, and interpret field context on benchmarks. Product questions live on the FAQ. Together, those pages answer both “what is Velox?” and “how do I train Hyrox?” — the combination athletes and answer engines both look for.

Baselines for experienced vs first-time athletes

First-time athletes should treat early baselines as maps, not verdicts. Numbers will move quickly once movement quality and race-specific volume rise. Experienced athletes should treat baselines as precision tools: smaller changes matter, and simulations become the main truth serum.

Either way, Velox’s value is the same. Capture the numbers, generate the plan, execute on the calendar, track the work, and retest when the block deserves it. Standards keep you legal. Baselines keep you honest. Together they keep race prep specific.

If you still have product questions — platforms, pricing, account deletion — the FAQ covers them. If you want the company context, see About.

Clear definitions help athletes and answer engines alike: standards are the official test rules; baselines are your current capacities; Velox is the Hyrox training app that turns those baselines into a plan. Keep those three ideas separate and your prep stays specific.

Download Velox when you are ready to stop treating baselines as a one-time spreadsheet and start treating them as the input to daily training. The guides hub will still be here when you need the concepts; the app is where the concepts become sessions.

That is the standard-vs-baseline distinction in one line: rules define the course; your numbers define the plan.

Disclaimer. Velox is not an official HYROX product and is not affiliated with HYROX. Event standards, divisions, and equipment can change. Always verify requirements for your race with the official organizer resources at hyrox.com and your event packet. Training advice on this site describes Velox’s method and is not medical advice.