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.
[ Balerno · Scotland ]
Hyrox training in Balerno,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Balerno, Edinburgh Leisure and David Lloyd Clubs among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is OVO Hydro, roughly 59 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 Balerno ]
The ground you actually train on in Balerno.
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.
- Oriam parkrun · Oriam, Heriot Watt University3.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Balerno, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
OVO Hydro
Glasgow · November 2026
Roughly 59 km from Balerno 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 Balerno to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Balerno ]
Where you can train in Balerno.
Balerno 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: Edinburgh Leisure, David Lloyd Clubs, The Gym Group, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Sports & Exercise Centresports centre3.1 km
- Sports Academysports centre3.1 km
- Skirmish Paintballsports centre3.1 km
- Oriam Indoor Tennis Centre (ITC)sports centre3.1 km
- Oriamsports centre3.2 km
- Bridge 8 Hubsports centre4.6 km
- Edinburgh Leisure Wester Hailes High Schoolgym4.9 km
- Lost Shore Surf Resortsports centre5.4 km
- energizegym5.6 km
- RBS Health & Wellbeingsports centre5.6 km
- Edinburgh International Climbing Arena · Edinburgh Leisuresports centre5.7 km
- Forrester RFCsports centre6 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Balerno; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Balerno. 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 Balerno ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Balerno.
Where to train in Balerno
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Balerno. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Sports & Exercise Centre, Sports Academy and Skirmish Paintball, the nearest of them about 3.1 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.
Sports & Exercise Centre and Sports Academy 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.
Edinburgh Leisure, David Lloyd Clubs and The Gym Group 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 Balerno
Oriam parkrun, roughly 3.2 km from the centre of Balerno, 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 Balerno
OVO Hydro is roughly 59 km from Balerno, 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 Balerno ]
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 Balerno
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Balerno
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
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