The race is in December. The result gets decided in October.
“Nobody loses this on the day. They lose it in week six of the block, in sessions they completed but never absorbed.”
You have already chosen your finishing time
Eight kilometres of running with eight stations wedged between them. Everyone arriving in December knows the standards, has done the wall balls, has practised the sled. Race day is execution.
What separates people is the twelve weeks before it - specifically how much of that training they actually converted into adaptation rather than simply survived.
Volume completed is not volume absorbed
The pattern is always the same. Weeks one to three go well. By week five or six the doubles are landing on legs that never fully cleared, session quality quietly drops, and the plan is being completed rather than progressed.
You get to the taper having done the work on paper and arrive with less than the block should have given you.
Absorb
Overnight repair turns the session into fitness. This is the step nobody trains.
Or accumulate
Unfinished repair carries forward. Week six is where the interest becomes obvious.
Then arrive
With the full block behind you, or with the twelve weeks you got through.
Roxzone is a recovery metric wearing a stopwatch
Transition time is where minutes disappear, and it is not a skill problem. Standing over a sled getting your breath back is your body clearing metabolic debt in real time - the same repair capacity, asked to work in seconds instead of overnight.
Same for the run out of a station. How fast you settle back into pace after the sandbag lunges is a readout of how quickly you recover between efforts, and it is trainable from the same direction as everything else here.
Energy gets paid first. Repair takes what's left.
NAD⁺ is the coenzyme mitochondria use to make energy and repair enzymes need to work at all. One shared pool, two jobs, both drawing hardest overnight. When supply is short, staying functional outranks getting fitter - so repair is what gets rationed.
It declines with age. By your forties you are running a Hyrox block on roughly half the pool you had at 25, against a field that includes people who still have it.
Blood NAD⁺ against participants' own baseline after 14 days of nicotinamide riboside supplementation.¹
What MUTO is
One product. Sixty capsules, thirty days, two a day. A cellular energy formula built around nicotinamide riboside - the raw material your body converts into NAD⁺ - with every dose printed in full at research level. Three jobs, no overlap:
Nicotinamide riboside at 300mg, plus zinc, copper and six B vitamins in active forms.
Your body breaks NAD⁺ down as fast as it makes it. Pterostilbene, quercetin, grapeseed and turmeric extract keep raised levels raised for longer.
CoQ10 to help mitochondria convert it into usable energy, and BioPerine® so the formula is absorbed rather than passed through.
No stimulants, so it is not a pre-workout and there is nothing in it you would want to time around a session. Two a day, every day, through the block.
This only works if you start it now
Nothing here helps you in taper week. It is not a race-day product and there is no loading protocol - it is an input that compounds across a block, which means the decision about December is a decision you make in October.
Nothing to feel. No stimulants, no loading phase. Log your 30-day HRV and resting heart rate averages before you start.
Most people describe the afternoon dip going and the day after a hard session costing less.
The part of the block that usually degrades. Wearable data typically moves between day 30 and day 60 - read the weekly average.
You arrive having absorbed the block rather than survived it. That is the whole proposition.
Ninety days takes you from now to the start line, and it is also the guarantee window. If your trend has not moved, tell us and we refund you.
£29 for your first month, then £55
Up to 58% off the one-time price. Cancel any time. 90-day money-back guarantee.
¹ Conze, D., Brenner, C., & Kruger, C. L. (2019). Scientific Reports, 9(1), 9772. Blood NAD⁺ measured against participants' own baseline over 14 days of nicotinamide riboside supplementation.
MUTO is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by HYROX or any event organiser. MUTO is a food supplement and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. It is not a substitute for training, sleep or a varied diet, and it is not a pre-workout. Competitors subject to anti-doping testing should check the formula with their governing body. Consumer wearables are not medical devices and their readings are estimates. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding or taking prescribed medication, speak to your doctor before use. Timings described are typical and not guaranteed; individual results vary.
