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27 November, 2025
Hy on fitness: teams take on Melbourne challenge
This event, they say, could be their biggest test yet.
A GROUP of locals is putting their body, mind and soul to the test as they take on the ultimate fitness challenge next month.
One they say is their biggest test yet.
What started as a joke for Josh Hicks, Jake Donaldson, Brooke Williams and Scott Wilson - and a few more - became a serious training regime in the lead up to Melbourne Hyrox 2025.
“It’s quite a level up from what we’re already doing and what we’ve done in the past,” Donaldson said.
“I’m always looking for a fitness event each year to try and this one made the most sense.”
After beginning in Germany in 2017, Hyrox has developed into a “fitness sport” and has been run in 11 countries across the world, including Australia.
Dubbed the “fitness competition for every body”, the event combines both running and functional workout stations, where participants run 1km followed by one functional station, repeated eight times.
“We’re not treating it as a race,” Williams said.
“For us it’s about getting a good time, and some of us just want to get to the end.”
Competitors have the option to compete as a team or individually, which will determine how much work each person puts in.
“You’re able to split the distance or reps between your team mates,” Wilson said.
“In some sections it means one person gets a bit of a break at a time, but in others you could look at it and it seems like more work.”
Wilson, whose partner lives and is training inter-state, said he’s been working his way up to this challenge since May.
“We go to Torneys Fighting Fit and have been for a while, which having that background with boot camps and classes has really helped,” he said.
“It’s not so much more sessions in the gym, it’s working in different areas and a lot more running.”
Donaldson said he was excited to compete alongside his mate.
“I’m keen to lock in with Josh, we’ve been training so hard, we all have.
“There’s a level of bro-ship that comes with this sort of event.”
Williams will be competing with Naomi Medlyn.
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