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.
[ Armadale · Scotland ]
Hyrox training in Armadale,
built around your race.
There are 17 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Armadale, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is OVO Hydro, roughly 37 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 Armadale ]
The ground you actually train on in Armadale.
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.
- Polkemmet Country parkrun · Polkemmet Country Park2.3 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Armadale, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
OVO Hydro
Glasgow · November 2026
Roughly 37 km from Armadale 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 Armadale to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Armadale ]
Where you can train in Armadale.
Armadale 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.
- Volunteer Parksports centre1.9 km
- Flex Unitgym2 km
- Xcite Whitburngym2 km
- Central Parksports centre2.2 km
- Dowden's Martial Artssports centre2.5 km
- Tough at the Top Fitnessgym2.5 km
- The Barbellgym3 km
- Creamery Parksports centre3.2 km
- Gibbshill Parksports centre3.7 km
- Fighter's Hivegym4.4 km
- Blackburn Bowling Clubsports centre5 km
- New Murrayfield Parksports centre5.2 km
17 sites within reach of the centre of Armadale; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Armadale. 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 Armadale ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Armadale.
Where to train in Armadale
17 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Armadale. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Volunteer Park, Flex Unit and Xcite Whitburn, the nearest of them about 1.9 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.
Volunteer Park and Central Park 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 Armadale
Polkemmet Country parkrun, roughly 2.3 km from the centre of Armadale, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
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 Armadale
OVO Hydro is roughly 37 km from Armadale, 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.
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 Armadale ]
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 Armadale
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Armadale
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
[ Armadale ]
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