[ Brentwood · East ]

Hyrox training in Brentwood, built around your race.

There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Brentwood, Better and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 23 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.

A deep sled push at full effort, side on

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.

Two athletes running uphill under a wide open sky

Dated to your race, not week numbers

Your programme counts back from London. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.

Ben Sutherland front on after an effort at a training camp

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 Brentwood ]

The ground you actually train on in Brentwood.

Your nearest race: HYROX London ExCel

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.

  • Brentwood parkrun · Weald Country Park2.7 km
  • Billericay parkrun · Lake Meadows Park7.8 km
  • Raphael parkrun · Raphael Park8.8 km

Distances are straight-line from the centre of Brentwood, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.

Your nearest race

ExCel

London · December 2026

Close enough to Brentwood to get there on race morning without staying over, and close enough to walk the venue beforehand if you want to. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.

Straight-line distance from the centre of Brentwood to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.

[ Gyms in Brentwood ]

Where you can train in Brentwood.

Brentwood 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: Better, PureGym, Anytime Fitness, Everyone Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.

  • Better Gym Brentwood · Bettergym0.3 km
  • Courage Hallsports centre0.3 km
  • PureGymgym0.4 km
  • Boxgym Fitnessgym0.6 km
  • Anytime Fitnessgym0.6 km
  • Brentwood Centre · Everyone Activesports centre1.6 km
  • Hutton Football Clubsports centre3.4 km
  • Hutton Cricket Clubsports centre3.5 km
  • Ashwells Sports & Country Clubsports centre3.7 km
  • Maylands Golf Clubsports centre4.2 km
  • Central Park Leisure Centresports centre5.8 km
  • Teenage Areasports centre6.1 km

Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.

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20 sites within reach of the centre of Brentwood; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Brentwood. 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 Brentwood ]

What a Hyrox build looks like from Brentwood.

Where to train in Brentwood

20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Brentwood. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.

Closest to the centre you have Better Gym Brentwood, Courage Hall and PureGym, the nearest of them about 0.3 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.

Courage Hall and Brentwood Centre 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.

Better, PureGym 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 Brentwood

You are well served for measured running around Brentwood. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Brentwood parkrun, Billericay parkrun and Raphael parkrun are the closest three, Brentwood parkrun being about 2.7 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.

They spread from roughly 3 km out to 9 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.

Racing from Brentwood

ExCel is roughly 23 km from Brentwood, 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 Brentwood ]

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 Brentwood

1:1 Hyrox coaching in Brentwood

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

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