Monitor the load you can act on
This review describes ways to monitor internal and neuromuscular strain in functional fitness, ranging from laboratory oxygen-uptake and lactate testing to heart rate, session RPE and jump-based checks. It is a monitoring framework, not a trial showing that more measurement improves HYROX performance.
For most aspiring athletes, the low-cost layer is enough: record session difficulty, watch whether easy running stays easy, follow resting or training heart-rate trends in context and note when station quality falls for several sessions. Use a more technical test only when it answers a decision you are prepared to make.
Wearables and single daily readings can be noisy, and the proposed framework has not validated one universal threshold for reducing training. See the full monitoring rationale in the PubMed record.