• Glasgow personal trainer Stephen Cassells only started in November and qualified for the World Championships
• The self-employed father of soon-to-be-three is adamant that anyone can participate due to the low level of skill required
• But he concedes that 'you need to be willing to suffer'
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DISCIPLINE. For an athlete it’s part of the job. For a parent, it’s part of life.

So when personal trainer and father of soon-to-be-three Stephen Cassells began his journey in HYROX, the latest sport to sweep the world, he had to strike the balance between being a parent, business owner and athlete.

Cassells, who runs his own gym in Queenslie industrial estate in the east end of Glasgow, has only been participating in HYROX for around seven months and already it has taken over his life. Previous to that, he’d never found a sport that kept him interested for long. HYROX changed everything.

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