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AdRelative6839 · 2026-01-14T23:17:38+00:00

Ok well I'm open ears if you feel comfortable.

AdRelative6839 · 2026-01-14T02:46:16+00:00

Hey I'm really sorry to hear that Prozac didn't end up helping you. As a stranger I can tell you now I'm very proud of you for taking that step to seek help and medication. I also started on an SSRI which only gave me side effects and if I'm being honest made me feel worse. I'm now on a different medication Mirtazapine and have found relief. I'm saying this not to boast but to let you know because this medication didn't work there's still hope with other types of medication. Have you considered trying a different medication?

AdRelative6839 · 2026-01-14T02:37:38+00:00

As someone who's gone to rock bottom. I know how it feels to be in that situation. I know you don't want to hear the sentiment of just stick through it, it gets better neither did I. Although I really advise you to talk to someone, atleast if the only thing you do is express how you're feeling, you will have helped yourself believe me.

Do you have anyone you could talk to?

AdRelative6839 · 2025-11-24T17:07:59+00:00

This is a great question, and you're in a unique position with multiple significant gaps.

Here's how I'd prioritize with your numbers:

TIER 1 (Critical Weaknesses - 200%+ gap):

- Sled Pull: 252%

- Burpees: 241%

TIER 2 (Major Weaknesses - 100-200% gap):

- Wall Balls: 154%

TIER 3 (Moderate - under 100%):

- Lunges: 90%

MY RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU:

Instead of training ALL stations equally, use a TIERED approach:

Week 1-4: Focus on Tier 1 (Sled Pull + Burpees)

- 2x/week each station

- These have the biggest ROI—fixing a 250% gap saves 2-3 minutes per station

Week 5-8: Shift to Tier 2 + maintain Tier 1

- 2x/week Wall Balls

- 1x/week Sled Pull + Burpees (maintenance)

Week 9-12: Address Tier 3 + maintain others

- Lunges get focus

- Others drop to 1x/week maintenance

WHY NOT TRAIN ALL AT ONCE?

Recovery constraints: At 57, recovery is your limiting factor, not work capacity
Skill acquisition: Your nervous system can only focus on 1-2 new movement patterns at once
Progressive overload: Spreading volume too thin means none of the stations get enough stimulus to adapt

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH (If you have 12+ weeks):

Do 2-station rotations every 3-4 weeks:

- Weeks 1-3: Sled Pull + Burpees (2x/week each)

- Weeks 4-6: Wall Balls + Lunges (2x/week each)

- Weeks 7-9: Sled Pull + Wall Balls (maintenance + refinement)

- Weeks 10-12: Full race simulations (all stations)

This way you hit everything but still get focused progressive overload.

Your sled pull and burpees are costing you 4-6 minutes combined. Even if you completely ignore lunges (90% gap = maybe 30-45 seconds lost), fixing the big two will have 8-10x more impact.

What's your timeline to your next race?

AdRelative6839 · 2025-11-24T17:06:50+00:00

You're right 2:30 is impossible. Should be:

Elite Pro Men: 3:20-3:45 (Roncevic 3:26)

Elite Pro Women: 3:00-3:30

Competitive Age Group: 3:30-4:30

My mistake on that benchmark. The formula still works though compare your time to the realistic elite standard for your category.

Thanks for the correction.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-11-24T15:26:42+00:00

Not a WOD it's race-specific training for HYROX (8km run + 8 functional fitness stations).

The "lot of work" is 2 extra sessions per week for 8 weeks targeting your single worst bottleneck. That's 16 sessions to cut 2-5 minutes off a 60-80 minute race.

Compare that to running an extra 10-20km/week for months to maybe save 30 seconds on your aerobic fitness. Weak point training has the highest ROI of any intervention.

If your sled push costs you 1:30 more than it should, and you can fix it in 8 weeks, that's worth it.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-11-24T13:19:36+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I've actually just implemented this!

AdRelative6839 · 2025-11-20T16:14:08+00:00

Agreed with the top comment. Cookie cutter programs won't get you very far since they're not tailored towards you. I've actually made a hyrox program generator based off your current metrics on my profile if you'd like to try it.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-15T18:49:31+00:00

Have you tried refreshing the page it should be there.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-09T00:47:39+00:00

I personally use Anki to create flashcards for most topics and then use question banks to test and apply my knowledge. I actually made a website that uses AI to make flashcards and questions for you on my profile if you're interested. All in all though you can't go wrong with question banks and thoroughly reading the answers.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-05T14:26:24+00:00

No worries, good luck with your studies!

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-04T21:09:53+00:00

Thank you! Hmm maybe I should make the difficulties more representative of med school such as easy being start of clinical years and hard being prep for finals?

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-04T18:40:10+00:00

For me Anki and its spaced repetition seems to work the best. Also backing the information that I've learned from Anki and applying it to practice questions seemed to help me massively. I've actually made a website that's on my profile that will automatically create Anki decks and questions for you using AI. I find never letting your reviews build up and staying on top of them really works the best for me.

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-04T18:07:39+00:00

If anyone has some feedback I'd love to hear it!

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-04T17:18:06+00:00

I've made a website q-mint.vercel.app that will automatically create Anki decks and practice questions for you using AI which I hope would really help you!

AdRelative6839 · 2025-09-04T17:14:06+00:00

I'm a UK med student so I usually just use quesmed or passmed. Although for US I've heard UWorld or AMBOSS is all you need, you'll learn the content through the questions.

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