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.
[ Derby · East Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Derby,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Derby, The Gym Group and David Lloyd Clubs among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC, roughly 54 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 Derby ]
The ground you actually train on in Derby.
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.
- Alvaston parkrun · Alvaston Park2.3 km
- Markeaton parkrun3.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Derby, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 54 km from Derby 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 Derby to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Derby ]
Where you can train in Derby.
Derby 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: The Gym Group, David Lloyd Clubs. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Prospects ABCgym0.4 km
- The Gym Groupgym0.4 km
- Gong Spacegym0.5 km
- Ultra Fit Ladies Gymgym0.5 km
- Voltage Fitnessgym0.5 km
- 360 Health Clubgym0.5 km
- Joy In Movementgym0.5 km
- Jaxxsports centre0.6 km
- Inside Out Pilatesgym0.6 km
- S3 Padelsports centre0.7 km
- Flo Skateparksports centre0.8 km
- Iron World Gymgym0.8 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 Derby; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Derby. 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 Derby ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Derby.
Where to train in Derby
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Derby. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Prospects ABC, The Gym Group and Gong Space, 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.
Jaxx and S3 Padel 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.
The Gym Group and David Lloyd Clubs 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 Derby
Alvaston parkrun, roughly 2.3 km from the centre of Derby, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
All of them sit within about 3 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Derby
NEC is roughly 54 km from Derby, 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 Derby ]
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 Derby
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Derby
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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