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.
[ Clayton West · Yorkshire ]
Hyrox training in Clayton West,
built around your race.
There are 13 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Clayton West, Bannatyne Health Club among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 44 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 Clayton West ]
The ground you actually train on in Clayton West.
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.
- Penistone parkrun · Penistone Show Ground7.8 km
- Barnsley parkrun · Locke Park, Barnsley10 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Clayton West, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 44 km from Clayton West 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 Clayton West to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Clayton West ]
Where you can train in Clayton West.
Clayton West 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: Bannatyne Health Club. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Scissett Leisure Centregym0.7 km
- Bodyzonegym1.5 km
- Kirkburton Karate Club & Activity centresports centre5.1 km
- Sovereign Diet and Fitness Clubgym5.1 km
- Peak Venture Activity Centresports centre6.4 km
- Oragymsgym6.8 km
- Penistone Leisure Centresports centre7.5 km
- Slazenger Sports Clubsports centre7.6 km
- Overthorpe Parksports centre7.7 km
- Formgym7.8 km
- Little Leopardsgym7.8 km
- Compoundgym7.8 km
13 sites within reach of the centre of Clayton West; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Clayton West. 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 Clayton West ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Clayton West.
Where to train in Clayton West
13 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Clayton West. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Scissett Leisure Centre, Bodyzone and Kirkburton Karate Club & Activity 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.
Kirkburton Karate Club & Activity centre and Peak Venture Activity 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.
Bannatyne Health Club 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 Clayton West
Penistone parkrun, roughly 7.8 km from the centre of Clayton West, 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 Clayton West
Manchester Central is roughly 44 km from Clayton West, 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.
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 Clayton West ]
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 Clayton West
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Clayton West
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
[ Clayton West ]
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