Built backwards from race day
Eight stations, eight 1-km runs. Sled push and pull with explicit progression, wall balls scaled to your bodyweight, run intervals that match the race.
[ Aberdare · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Aberdare,
built around your race.
There are 9 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Aberdare, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, roughly 32 km away, and every session is dated backwards from it. Built by HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland. See your Week 1 before you decide anything.
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Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from Cardiff. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.
An Elite 15 athlete behind the programming
Ben races in the HYROX Elite 15 Doubles with his brother Harry. The programming you follow is the structure he uses, scaled to your level.
[ Training in Aberdare ]
The ground you actually train on in Aberdare.
Your nearest race: HYROX Cardiff →Where to run your 1 km repeats
A Hyrox is eight 1 km runs with a station between each. Running them on flat, measured, repeatable ground is worth more than any single session you will do indoors. These are the closest measured 5 km courses to you.
- Aberdare parkrun · Aberdare Park0.9 km
- Merthyr parkrun · Merthyr Leisure Village5.8 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Aberdare, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Principality Stadium
Cardiff · May 2027
Roughly 32 km from Aberdare in a straight line, which for most people is an early train rather than a hotel. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Aberdare to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Aberdare ]
Where you can train in Aberdare.
Enough choice in Aberdare to find one that suits the training rather than the other way round. Ring ahead and ask about sled space and a wall you are allowed to throw at, because those two decide more than anything on the membership page.
- Dare Fitnessgym0.3 km
- Sobell Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
- Ron Jones Stadiumsports centre0.9 km
- Dare Community Sports Hallsports centre1.4 km
- Maerdy Boxing Clubgym5 km
- Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centresports centre5.7 km
- Merthyr Tydfil Indoor Bowls Clubsports centre5.8 km
- Aberfan Leisure Centresports centre7.4 km
- Ystrad Rhondda Leisure Centregym8 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Aberdare. We have not audited what equipment each site holds, so treat this as where to start ringing rather than a verified kit list. Gym data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
[ Training in Aberdare ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Aberdare.
Where to train in Aberdare
Aberdare has 9 places to train within reach. Not a wide field, and it means the sensible move is to build the programme around what one or two of them actually have rather than hunting for a perfect fit.
Closest to the centre you have Dare Fitness, Sobell Leisure Centre and Ron Jones Stadium, the nearest of them about 0.3 km out. Ring before you join and ask two questions: is there floor space to push a sled, and can you throw a ball at a wall. Those answers decide more than any membership tier.
Sobell Leisure Centre and Ron Jones Stadium are listed as sports centres rather than gyms. Multi-use sites are usually where the floor space is, which tends to be where the sled and carry work ends up happening.
Where to run around Aberdare
Aberdare parkrun, roughly 0.9 km from the centre of Aberdare, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
All of them sit within about 6 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Aberdare
Principality Stadium is roughly 32 km from Aberdare, close enough to be a normal morning rather than a trip. That is the one to build towards for a first race: no hotel, no unfamiliar bed, no early train.
Between the race and the 9 places to train listed here, the constraint is rarely equipment. It is the calendar, which is why the programme is dated to a day rather than numbered by week.
[ Near Aberdare ]
Plenty of people train one town over, whether that is a better gym, a flatter route, or simply the one on the way home from work.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Aberdare
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Aberdare
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
Suth Performance
Tailoredto you
- Full week-by-week personalised programme
- A fraction of what weekly PT sessions add up to
- Free consultation first, cancel anytime
Local rates vary; typical advertised prices, not quotes. Suth Performance is a programming platform, not a substitute for in-person supervision where you need it.
Common questions
[ Aberdare ]
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