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.
[ Birstall · East Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Birstall,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Birstall, TeamSport Go Karting and Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC, roughly 47 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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Programming with a race at the end of it.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from Birmingham. 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 Birstall ]
The ground you actually train on in Birstall.
Your nearest race: HYROX Birmingham →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.
- Abbey Park parkrun2.6 km
- Watermead Country Park parkrun2.8 km
- Leicester Victoria parkrun · Victoria Park5.1 km
- Braunstone parkrun · Braunstone, Leicester6.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Birstall, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 47 km from Birstall 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 Birstall to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Birstall ]
Where you can train in Birstall.
Birstall 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, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, The Gym, PureGym, Bannatyne Health Club. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centresports centre0.4 km
- Netballsports centre1.1 km
- TeamSport Leicester · TeamSport Go Kartingsports centre2.2 km
- Elizabeth Park Sports Centresports centre2.2 km
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym2.4 km
- Bridge4Studiogym2.6 km
- Mattioli Arenasports centre2.7 km
- St Margarets Pastures Sports Centresports centre3 km
- hiitnessgym3.1 km
- Abbey Sports & Leisure Clubgym3.1 km
- 1855 Fitnessgym3.3 km
- Leicester Leys Leisure Centresports centre3.3 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
20 sites within reach of the centre of Birstall; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Birstall. 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 Birstall ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Birstall.
Where to train in Birstall
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Birstall. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, Netball and TeamSport Leicester, the nearest of them about 0.4 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.
Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre and Netball 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, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and The Gym 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 Birstall
You are well served for measured running around Birstall. 4 parkrun courses sit within reach: Abbey Park parkrun, Watermead Country Park parkrun and Leicester Victoria parkrun are the closest three, Abbey Park parkrun being about 2.6 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
All of them sit within about 6 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Birstall
NEC is roughly 47 km from Birstall, 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.
Between the race and the 20 places to train listed here, the constraint is rarely equipment. It is the calendar, which is why the programme is dated to a day rather than numbered by week.
[ Near Birstall ]
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 Birstall
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Birstall
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.
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