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.
[ Balsall Common · West Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Balsall Common,
built around your race.
There are 15 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Balsall Common, TeamSport Go Karting and Everyone Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Balsall Common 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 Balsall Common ]
Balsall Common hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
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.
- Brueton parkrun · Brueton Park, Solihull7.9 km
- Coventry parkrun · War Memorial Park, Coventry8.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Balsall Common, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
The race comes to Balsall Common. 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.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Balsall Common to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Balsall Common ]
Where you can train in Balsall Common.
Balsall Common 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: TeamSport Go Karting, Everyone Active, Anytime Fitness, Curves. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Lakes at Lavender Hallsports centre0.7 km
- TeamSport Coventry · TeamSport Go Kartingsports centre4.2 km
- The Xcel Leisure Centresports centre5.3 km
- Sports and Wellness Hubsports centre5.6 km
- MK Reformedgym5.9 km
- Simply Gymgym6.5 km
- Kenilworth Tennis and Squash Clubsports centre6.6 km
- Abbey Fields Swimming Pool · Everyone Activesports centre6.7 km
- Silhillians Sports Club and Conference Centresports centre6.8 km
- Castle Farm Leisure Centre · Everyone Activesports centre7 km
- Re Coopgym7.3 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym7.4 km
15 sites within reach of the centre of Balsall Common; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Balsall Common. 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 Balsall Common ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Balsall Common.
Where to train in Balsall Common
15 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Balsall Common. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Lakes at Lavender Hall, TeamSport Coventry and The Xcel Leisure Centre, the nearest of them about 0.7 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.
Lakes at Lavender Hall and TeamSport Coventry 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.
TeamSport Go Karting, Everyone Active 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 Balsall Common
Brueton parkrun, roughly 7.9 km from the centre of Balsall Common, 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 Balsall Common
Balsall Common 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 Balsall Common ]
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 Balsall Common
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Balsall Common
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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