Shoes, gloves, socks, watches and the kit rules, all in one place — the HYROX gear guide →
Should you wear gloves for HYROX?
It is a personal choice. Gloves are allowed, but gymnastics-style grips are not. Gloves help most on the sled pull rope and the farmers carry. They are no help at the wall balls, and taking them on and off costs time.
What the rulebook says
- Gloves are allowed. Grips are not.
- Whatever you start with, you carry to the finish. You cannot hand gloves to anyone during the race.
- Chalk is allowed only at the sled pull and the farmers carry, and only the chalk HYROX provides.
- Your own chalk, of any kind, or chalk at any other station is a 2-minute penalty.
Where gloves help
The sled pull is a hand-over-hand rope pull. Typical Open Men take 5:03 and Open Women 5:52.
The farmers carry is 200 m with two kettlebells: 2 × 24 kg for Open Men, 2 × 16 kg for Open Women. Typical times are 2:13 and 2:21.
On both, a thin glove with a grippy palm can stop sweat from costing you grip.
Where gloves cost you
- Taking them off and on with wet hands, between stations.
- The wall balls, where you want your hands on the ball.
- Any pair you have not trained in.
What to look for
- Thin, with a grippy palm. Not a padded lifting glove.
- A pair you can pull on in one movement with sweaty hands.
- A pair you have trained in for weeks.
- Cheap rubber-palmed gardening gloves are a legal option for the farmers carry.
Racing without gloves and training your grip is just as valid. The full kit breakdown is in the gear guide.
The live numbers
Numbers you can act on, not advice you already know.
Your race date, your division, your splits — a plan that rebuilds itself every week around what you actually did.
- Built from your race date and level
- Rebuilt every week from what you did
- Every station, every run, timed in the app
