Last Friday, my fellow Lifehacker writer Beth Skwarecki and I completed a Hyrox race with a time of 01:36:48. I consider this a perfectly solid debut for one runner and one weightlifter trying to meet somewhere in the middle. While we were at it, I strapped the Garmin Forerunner 970 ($749.99) to my left wrist and the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Pro ($449.99) to my right, turning the race into a nifty experiment with a couple of my favorite watches. Here's how it went.
Garmin Forerunner 970 $749.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $749.99 at Amazon Amazfit Cheetah 2 Pro $449.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $449.99 at Amazon SEE -1 MOREBeth goes into more depth elsewhere, but here's the quick version of what Hyrox actually is: It's a structured running race combined with functional workout stations, repeated eight times over. You run 1 km, hit a workout station, run another 1 km, hit another station, and so on. The stations cycle through exercises like sled pushes, rowing, burpee broad jumps, walking lunges, and wall balls. Check out Beth's recap to get the gist:
View this post on InstagramHow to set up your watch for a Hyrox race
Garmin, for all its dominance in the running watch space, doesn't natively support Hyrox as a dedicated race mode. To get the most out of the Forerunner 970, I needed to download Roxfit, a handy third-party app that integrates with Garmin Connect and adds Hyrox-specific structure to your activity. It works, but it requires setup ahead of time, and if you miss any steps (which I think I did), you're on your own mid-race.
Amazfit on the left; Garmin on the right. Credit: Meredith DietzAs I’ve previously covered, these two watches are matched in terms of core metrics like heart rate. In terms of user experience, during the race itself, the Amazfit's built-in Hyrox mode took the throne almost immediately. As you move through the race, the watch displays small icons on-screen indicating what's coming next. I realize this might sound like a minor thing, but when all your brainpower is going toward your physical performance, those little graphics are a major lifesaver.
The Zepp app beats Garmin Connect
Amazfit's companion app, Zepp, is significantly better than Garmin Connect for analyzing Hyrox data. After the race, Zepp presents a clean timeline view with icons marking each station and each run segment in sequence. The data is organized around the structure of the race itself, which is exactly how your brain wants to access it after the fact.
Credit: Meredith DietzDespite my attempts to configure the Forerunner 970 properly for the race, Garmin logged every segment as a run. That's surely some form of user error on my part, and I'm not going to blame the hardware entirely for a setup issue. But that's somewhat the point: Amazfit doesn't give you the opportunity to make that error in the first place.
The bottom line
But Hyrox is a different kind of race, with a specific structure, and specific in-race mental challenges and demands. The built-in Hyrox mode, the on-screen station icons, the more intuitive lap transitions, and the all-around superior post-race app all point to Amazfit as the winner here. For the $300 price difference, it's not even close for this specific case.
Garmin still has my heart (and my wrist!) for traditional running; but for Hyrox race day, with all its specific demands and organized chaos, Amazfit wins this one.
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