{"id":24178,"date":"2025-04-16T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24178\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:35:14","slug":"hyrox-pro-jake-dearden-reveals-his-1-training-and-recovery-rule-for-race-day-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/24178\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyrox Pro Jake Dearden Reveals His #1 Training and Recovery Rule for Race-Day Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a reason why MH cover star Jake Dearden<\/a> is a Men\u2019s Doubles champion, not to mention a serious threat in the solo field. The 26-year-old British athlete trains hard and often, combining old-school heavy lifting with gruelling running workouts<\/a> and Hyrox simulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But his top piece of advice for fellow competitors isn\u2019t about technique or pacing; it\u2019s about working to your personal limits.<\/p>\n

\u2018The best piece of advice I can give is to train as much as you can recover from,\u2019 he tells Men\u2019s Health. If the demands of a busy job and home life are hindering your ability to bounce back from sessions, he adds, ‘it\u2019s just not going to work’.<\/p>\n

The importance of prioritising recovery is a lesson Dearden learned the hard way. A long-time endurance athlete (he ran his first 100km ultramarathon aged 19), he admits that R&R used to be low on his list. \u2018I was stupidly running miles and miles and miles, and then doing fitness events for fun,\u2019 he says. \u2018Not prioritising recovery is probably the thing that I regret most.\u2019<\/p>\n

Want to follow the exact training plan Hyrox champion Jake Dearden used to prepare for the World Championships? Sign up<\/a> below to gain full access, and build the strength, speed and stamina needed for peak race-day performance. As a member of the MH SQUAD, you’ll also unlock over 2,000 workouts from Fiit, the no. 1 fitness streaming platform, plus receive both print and digital copies of your favourite magazine, along with unlimited access to the Men\u2019s Health UK app.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The biggest mistake he ever made? \u2018When I slipped two discs in my back in a race [in April 2023],\u2019 he says. \u2018That definitely haunts me. I\u2019m still hurting from that now, I\u2019ve still got back issues. That was just from neglecting my mobility and not looking after my body.\u2019<\/p>\n

Of course, mobility and rest are just one piece of the puzzle. To learn more about how Dearden trains for his world-beating performances, sign up<\/a> to the Men\u2019s Health SQUAD, where you\u2019ll gain access to his full four-week programme. <\/p>\n

Related Stories\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Scarlett Wrench is the Senior Editor at Men\u2019s Health UK.<\/p>\n

With more than 12 years\u2019 experience as a health and lifestyle editor, Scarlett has a keen interest in new science, emerging trends, mental well-being, and food and nutrition. For Men\u2019s Health, she has carried out extensive research into areas such as wellness in the workplace, male body image, the paradoxes of modern masculinity, and mental health among school-age boys.<\/p>\n

Her words have also appeared in Women\u2019s Health, Runner\u2019s World and The Sunday Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a reason why MH cover star Jake Dearden is a Men\u2019s Doubles champion, not to mention a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[2083,15018,1331,1630,105,1330,15017,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-24178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-content-type-default","9":"tag-contentid-415dc1ca-74a6-4200-b4c6-372658054063","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-shorttitle-this-is-the-key-mistake-most-hyrox-athletes-make","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114346493409389260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}