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.
[ Ancaster · Canada ]
Hyrox training in Ancaster,
built around your race.
There are 16 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Ancaster, GoodLife Fitness and Orangetheory Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is 100 Princes' Blvd, roughly 66 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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- HYROX Elite 15 athlete
- Multiple Pro Doubles wins
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- Coaches beginner to pro
Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Tell us your race date and every session lands on a calendar day. 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 Ancaster ]
The ground you actually train on in Ancaster.
Your nearest race: GoodLife HYROX Toronto →Your nearest race
100 Princes' Blvd
Toronto · October 2026
Roughly 66 km from Ancaster 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 Ancaster to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Ancaster ]
Where you can train in Ancaster.
Ancaster has plenty of choice, which means you can be picky. The thing to look for is not a Hyrox sticker on the door, it is a sled lane long enough to push on, a spare wall for wall balls, and a rower nobody queues for at 6pm.
Chains with a site here: GoodLife Fitness, Orangetheory Fitness, Anytime Fitness, Crunch Fitness, McMaster University. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Yin Yoga Studiogym1.3 km
- Morgan Firestone Arenasports centre1.6 km
- GoodLife Fitnessgym3.3 km
- Orangetheory Fitnessgym3.6 km
- Ancaster Sports Centresports centre3.6 km
- Phoenix Fitnesssports centre3.9 km
- Wentworth Arenassports centre4.7 km
- Modo Yogagym5.7 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym5.7 km
- Crunch Fitnessgym6.1 km
- Flying Squirrelsports centre7.6 km
- Westmount Recreation Centresports centre7.6 km
16 sites within reach of the centre of Ancaster; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ancaster. 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 Ancaster ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Ancaster.
Where to train in Ancaster
16 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Ancaster. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Yin Yoga Studio, Morgan Firestone Arena and GoodLife Fitness, the nearest of them about 1.3 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.
Morgan Firestone Arena and Ancaster Sports Centre 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.
GoodLife Fitness, Orangetheory Fitness and Anytime Fitness have sites here, so an existing membership may already cover you. If you are joining from scratch, a rolling monthly contract is worth the few extra pounds while you work out which sessions you actually turn up for.
Where to run around Ancaster
There is no parkrun close to Ancaster, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
A Hyrox is eight kilometre runs with a station between each, which means the skill being tested is running on tired legs, not running fresh. Do at least one session a week where the running comes after the hard work rather than before it.
Racing from Ancaster
Your nearest race is 100 Princes' Blvd, about 66 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.
Whichever race you enter, the date is what makes a programme a programme. Twelve weeks is the standard build, sixteen if you are starting from very little running, and every session lands on a calendar day rather than a week number.
[ Near Ancaster ]
Other places we cover in Canada. Plenty of people train in the next town over, whether that is a better gym or simply the one on the way home.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Ancaster
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Ancaster
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
[ Ancaster ]
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