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.
[ Ballyboden · Ireland ]
Hyrox training in Ballyboden,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Ballyboden, Curves and Ballyboden Wanders GAA among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Ballyboden hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. 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 Ballyboden ]
Ballyboden hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Dublin: dates, venue and when to start →Your nearest race
Royal Dublin Society (RDS)
Dublin · November 2026
The race comes to Ballyboden. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.
Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Ballyboden ]
Where you can train in Ballyboden.
Ballyboden 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: Curves, Ballyboden Wanders GAA. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- ProFitness Gymgym0.2 km
- Butterfly Yoga & Pilates Knocklyongym0.3 km
- Knocklyon United FCsports centre0.7 km
- Páirc Uí Mhurchúsports centre0.9 km
- Curvesgym1.1 km
- Hiit Housegym1.5 km
- High Performance Training Centregym1.5 km
- Body Design Fitnessgym1.5 km
- Butterfield Health and Fitness Clubsports centre1.6 km
- The Workroom Gymgym1.7 km
- Faugh's GAAsports centre1.8 km
- Butterfly Yoga & Pilatesgym1.9 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Ballyboden; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ballyboden. 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 Ballyboden ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Ballyboden.
Where to train in Ballyboden
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Ballyboden. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have ProFitness Gym, Butterfly Yoga & Pilates Knocklyon and Knocklyon United FC, the nearest of them about 0.2 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.
Knocklyon United FC and Páirc Uí Mhurchú 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.
Curves and Ballyboden Wanders GAA 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 Ballyboden
There is no parkrun close to Ballyboden, 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 Ballyboden
Ballyboden hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.
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 Ballyboden ]
Other places we cover in Ireland. 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 Ballyboden
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Ballyboden
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
[ Ballyboden ]
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