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.
[ Briton Ferry · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Briton Ferry,
built around your race.
There are 16 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Briton Ferry, YMCA among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 170 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
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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 Briton Ferry ]
The ground you actually train on in Briton Ferry.
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.
- Gnoll parkrun · Gnoll Estate Country Park4 km
- Parc Coed Gwilym parkrun8.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Briton Ferry, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 170 km from Briton Ferry in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Briton Ferry to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Briton Ferry ]
Where you can train in Briton Ferry.
Briton Ferry 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: YMCA. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Winstone's Fitness Centresports centre0.3 km
- Hengwrt Community Sports Centresports centre1.5 km
- Evans Bevan Playing Fieldsports centre1.6 km
- Mains Martial Arts Centregym3.5 km
- T2 Health and Wellbeinggym3.5 km
- Neath Leisure Centresports centre3.8 km
- The Gnollsports centre3.9 km
- Neath YMCAsports centre4.2 km
- Celtic Leisuresports centre4.3 km
- Uni Gymgym4.5 km
- YMCA Watersports Centre · YMCAsports centre5.3 km
- Ashlandssports centre5.9 km
16 sites within reach of the centre of Briton Ferry; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Briton Ferry. 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 Briton Ferry ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Briton Ferry.
Where to train in Briton Ferry
16 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Briton Ferry. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Winstone's Fitness Centre, Hengwrt Community Sports Centre and Evans Bevan Playing Field, 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.
Winstone's Fitness Centre and Hengwrt Community Sports 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.
YMCA has a site 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 Briton Ferry
Gnoll parkrun, roughly 4 km from the centre of Briton Ferry, 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 Briton Ferry
NEC Birmingham is the nearest venue at roughly 170 km, so racing means a weekend away. Enter early, book the room at the same time, and treat the travel as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
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 Briton Ferry ]
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 Briton Ferry
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Briton Ferry
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
[ Briton Ferry ]
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