Awaken Hybrid Kids: A First Look at the Newest Way to Train at Metrowalk

Awaken • June 9, 2026

On June 7, Awaken ran its first kids' event — Awaken Hybrid Kids — at Metrowalk Commercial Complex in Pasig. For a few hours, the training floor that usually holds HYROX athletes belonged to the people who show up for them outside of training: their kids. Registration opened at 10 AM, and 5-to-15-year-olds worked through a scaled-down version of the same circuit Awaken's adult members train on every week, with parents, siblings, and coaches watching from the sidelines.

Awaken has always described itself as more than a gym — a training ground and a community. Hybrid Kids brought that to the kids who are usually waiting at home while their parents train. This time, they showed up too, and so did the rest of the community around them.

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Three Categories, One Format

Awaken split participants into three age brackets, each with its own version of the course:

Mini Hero

5–8 years old

Schedule: 8–10 AM

Hero

9–11 years old

Schedule: 11:30 AM–1 PM

Super Hero

13–15 years old

Schedule: 1:30–3 PM

Every category ran the same nine stations — run, SkiErg, sled push, sled pull, froggers/burpee broad jumps, RowErg, farmer's carry, lunges, and wall balls — with the loads and distances scaled up by age group. A 5-year-old in Mini Hero pushed a 5kg sled for 25 meters; a 13-year-old in Super Hero threw a 3kg wall ball for 30 reps. The run stayed at two laps (250m) across all three categories.

Splitting kids by age meant siblings could race in the same event without one of them being outmatched — a 6-year-old and their 11-year-old sibling both got a course built for where they were, so a family could show up together and everyone had something to finish.

Getting Ready Before Race Day

Three days before the event, Awaken ran a Race Ready Clinic for registered participants — a coached walkthrough of the course, split into two sessions by time slot. Kids went through a group warm-up, practiced each station with a coach, then cooled down as a group before heading home. For a lot of these kids, it was the first time they'd spent real time with an Awaken coach one-on-one, not just watched their parents do it

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A Community Event, Built Like One

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The event layout made room for everyone who'd normally be on the sidelines: a spectator zone for parents and siblings, a bag drop and waiting area, a hydration station, a finish zone, and a photo booth to catch the moment a kid crossed the line. Awaken built this the way it builds anything else on its calendar — with the people cheering treated as part of the event, not an afterthought to it.

Why Awaken Ran This

The idea came from inside the gym. A number of Awaken's members are parents, and once their kids saw what training looked like, they started asking for a version of it they could try. Hybrid Kids was Awaken's answer — the same circuit format the adults train on every week, scaled down by age so their kids could get a taste of it. It's a reminder of how much of Awaken's community started this way: someone already training brings the people they care about along.

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What's Next

Hybrid Kids gave Awaken's community a way to include people who'd only ever heard about training secondhand from a parent. No race ego, no pressure to keep pace with anyone else — just a course built for their age group, cheered on by the same coaches and members their parents train with every week.

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