Amazfit has stepped properly into the HYROX arena with the Amazfit Balance 3 and Balance Ultra, two sports watches sitting at the heart of a new HYROX-focused training ecosystem developed with HYROX and shaped with input from some of the sport’s leading athletes.
That last bit matters. This is not another smartwatch brand wandering into hybrid fitness, slapping on a generic workout mode and hoping nobody notices. Amazfit appears to have done the work here, building features around the peculiar demands of HYROX: the running, the stations, the pacing, the fatigue, and that very special mid-race moment when your legs begin negotiating their resignation.
Unveiled at the HYROX World Championships in Stockholm, the system brings together the Zepp App, the Amazfit Balance 3 and the Balance Ultra to give competitors a more complete view of training load, recovery, pacing and race execution.
For a fast-rising tech company, it is an impressive statement of intent. And with the Amazfit Balance 3 carrying a regular price of £369.90, it also lands at a very attractive price point for what is becoming a highly technical piece of wearable kit.
Amazfit Has Built This Around HYROX, Not Beside It
HYROX has become one of the most compelling growth stories in fitness because it is both beautifully simple and savagely unforgiving. Run. Complete a functional workout station. Repeat until your lungs start behaving like they have legal representation.
That simplicity is also what makes it so hard to track properly. A standard running watch can tell you plenty about pace, distance and heart rate. A strength tracker can offer something on reps, load and effort. HYROX demands both, under fatigue, with compromised movement and precious little room for tactical nonsense.
That is the gap Amazfit is trying to close.
The company has developed its HYROX ecosystem with direct support from HYROX and input from top HYROX athletes, which gives the Balance 3 and Balance Ultra a much clearer purpose than many broad-brush sports watches. These devices have been shaped for competitors who need to understand not just how hard they trained, but whether that work is actually preparing them for the very particular cruelty of race day.
“In hybrid training, the challenge is to capture and maintain the optimal balance between endurance, strength, and speed training. The system we are building aims to help athletes maintain this balance by more accurately measuring training loads, more effectively managing recovery, and taking into account a wide range of stress factors,” says Jesús Carrero, General Manager, EMEA, Amazfit.
Zepp App: The Control Room For The Chaos
The updated Zepp App is where much of the heavy lifting takes place. Instead of drowning athletes in numbers and leaving them to interpret the wreckage through a fog of post-session regret, the app is designed to make training direction easier to understand.
Its Training Balance and Weekly Focus tools allow users to assess sessions in terms of strength and endurance. After training, athletes can also adjust fatigue levels using subjective feedback, which is a smart move. Not every useful signal comes from a sensor. Sometimes the most accurate metric is simply: “That was absolutely vile.”
From there, the system offers guidance on what type of training may be most suitable in the following days, based on the athlete’s goals.
There is also Hybrid Charge, a feature designed to estimate an athlete’s current energy level for hybrid training. It considers training load, general activity, recovery, sleep and stressors such as work intensity, lack of time, illness or reduced wellbeing.
That is where the concept becomes genuinely interesting. Serious HYROX training rarely falls apart because of one bad workout. It usually unravels because sleep, stress, work and accumulated fatigue have been quietly chewing through the foundations while pretending to be innocent bystanders.
HYROX Training Sessions On The Wrist
Amazfit has expanded the HYROX Training Library within the Zepp App, allowing athletes to download hybrid sessions directly to the Balance 3 and Balance Ultra watches.
These include different difficulty levels and race-specific formats such as HYROX First Half Simulation and HYROX Second Half Simulation. For competitors preparing for event day, that could be especially useful.
The first half of HYROX is where ambition starts writing cheques. The second half is where the body asks to see the bank statement.
Having structured sessions on the wrist should make training easier to execute without constantly reaching for a phone, checking a clipboard or relying on that one training partner who says “one more round” with the emotional warmth of a parking warden.
Balance 3 And Balance Ultra Get HYROX Race Modes
The Balance 3 and Balance Ultra are not being positioned as passive fitness trackers. They now include HYROX-specific features for both preparation and competition, including HYROX Training and HYROX Race modes.
The standout feature is HYROX Virtual Pace. This allows athletes to see whether they are ahead of or behind their target strategy by seconds, while also showing how much time remains to complete each running lap and workout station.
That matters because HYROX pacing is a dark art. Go out too carefully and you leave time scattered all over the course. Go out too hard and the ski erg begins to resemble a medieval confession device.
The virtual assistant uses race strategies generated in the Zepp App and aligned with the athlete’s target result. These include split times for running sections and workout stations, while time spent in the Rox Zone is shown separately. Athletes can also adjust the plan manually.
For HYROX competitors, that level of specificity could be a serious advantage. It turns pacing from a hopeful guess into something much closer to a proper race plan.
Post-Race Analysis For Athletes Who Want The Truth
After the race, the Balance 3 and Balance Ultra provide performance analysis enriched with data from other participants. Athletes can compare running splits and workout stations, while benchmarking their results against average competition performances.
For competitive HYROX athletes, this could be the difference between vague disappointment and highly specific disappointment, which is progress of a sort.
More seriously, station-by-station comparison can help identify where time is being lost. Is it running pace? Transitions? Functional strength? Movement under fatigue? Or simply the ancient tactical error of treating the opening kilometre like a personal audition for the Olympic 1500m final?
That kind of insight gives training a sharper purpose. Occasionally, it may also ruin a perfectly good evening.
Amazfit Balance 3 Price: Strong Value At £369.90
The Amazfit Balance 3 is priced at £369.90, which looks highly competitive given the level of HYROX-specific functionality being brought into the watch and Zepp App ecosystem.
For athletes who want structured training, pacing support, recovery insight and race analysis in one package, that price makes the Balance 3 a very interesting option. It is not cheap in the casual sense, but for a technical sports wearable designed around one of the fastest-growing competitive fitness formats in the world, it looks like strong value.
This is where Amazfit’s rise becomes hard to ignore. The brand has been gaining momentum in the wearable space, and this HYROX move gives it something many rivals struggle to find: a clear performance identity.
Who Is The Amazfit HYROX Ecosystem For?
This system is best suited to HYROX competitors and hybrid fitness athletes who need to balance running, strength work, recovery and race pacing.
It should also appeal to competitive recreational athletes who want structured sessions, goal-led training and detailed post-race analysis. In particular, the Balance 3 looks well placed for those who want serious HYROX features without paying the sort of price that requires a quiet conversation with the household finance committee.
It is probably less essential for casual gym-goers who mainly want step counts, basic heart-rate tracking and a watch that politely tells them they slept badly.
A Serious HYROX Move From A Fast-Rising Tech Brand
The strongest part of this launch is its specificity. Amazfit has not merely added a badge and a timer. The Balance 3, Balance Ultra and Zepp App ecosystem have been built around HYROX’s distinctive blend of running, workout stations, pacing strategy and fatigue management.
That gives the range a much clearer proposition. It also shows that Amazfit is taking the sport seriously at a time when HYROX is becoming more competitive, more professional and far more data-driven.
HYROX is the fastest-growing sport in the world. However, its rapid growth and professionalisation mean that competition is becoming increasingly intense. At every stage—training, recovery, and competition—every detail matters. Our ecosystem tracks and analyses these elements, helping athletes reach the next level in hybrid sports”, adds Jesús Carrero.
That is the bet Amazfit is making: HYROX athletes no longer want a watch that simply records the suffering once it is over. They want one that helps them plan it, pace it, understand it and recover from it.
In HYROX, that may count as mercy.
