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.
[ Armthorpe · Yorkshire ]
Hyrox training in Armthorpe,
built around your race.
There are 15 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Armthorpe, Goals and The Gym Group among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 79 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
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- 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 Armthorpe ]
The ground you actually train on in Armthorpe.
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.
- Sandall Park parkrun2.7 km
- Cusworth Hall parkrun · Cusworth Hall Museum & Park8.3 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Armthorpe, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 79 km from Armthorpe 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 Armthorpe to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Armthorpe ]
Where you can train in Armthorpe.
Armthorpe 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: Goals, The Gym Group, PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Armthorpe Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
- Fat Cat Motoparcsports centre3.1 km
- Doncaster Domesports centre3.7 km
- Goalssports centre3.8 km
- Doncaster Superbowlsports centre4.2 km
- Rise Wellnessgym4.5 km
- Basketball Courtgym4.8 km
- Freedom Boxing Clubgym5.1 km
- GXFitnessgym5.4 km
- The Gym Groupgym5.7 km
- PureGymgym6.3 km
- Rossington Leisure Centresports centre6.4 km
15 sites within reach of the centre of Armthorpe; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Armthorpe. 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 Armthorpe ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Armthorpe.
Where to train in Armthorpe
15 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Armthorpe. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Armthorpe Leisure Centre, Fat Cat Motoparc and Doncaster Dome, the nearest of them about 0.6 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.
Armthorpe Leisure Centre and Fat Cat Motoparc 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.
Goals, The Gym Group and PureGym 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 Armthorpe
Sandall Park parkrun, roughly 2.7 km from the centre of Armthorpe, 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 Armthorpe
Your nearest race is Manchester Central, about 79 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 Armthorpe ]
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 Armthorpe
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Armthorpe
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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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
[ Armthorpe ]
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