[ Forest Hill · London ]

Hyrox training in Forest Hill, built around your race.

There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Forest Hill, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Forest Hill hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. 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.

Elevated view of two athletes striding down the track straight

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.

Numbered lanes on the track bend with two runners holding form

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.

Coach standing over an athlete mid rowing interval in the gym

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 Forest Hill ]

Forest Hill hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.

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.

  • Peckham Rye parkrun · Peckham Rye Park1.7 km
  • Hilly Fields parkrun2 km
  • Catford parkrun · Mountsfield Park2.3 km
  • Dulwich parkrun · Dulwich Park, Dulwich2.6 km

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

Your nearest race

ExCeL London

London · expected March 2027

The race comes to Forest Hill. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.

Straight-line distance from the centre of Forest Hill 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 Forest Hill ]

Where you can train in Forest Hill.

Forest Hill 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.

  • King's College London Honor Oak Park Sports Groundsports centre0.6 km
  • Club Housesports centre1.1 km
  • Energiegym1.1 km
  • St Dunstan's College Jubilee Groundssports centre1.3 km
  • Homestall Road Sports Groundsports centre1.4 km
  • Forest Hill Poolssports centre1.4 km
  • Ladywell Arena Sportshallsports centre1.5 km
  • Air Thrillsports centre1.7 km
  • Formagym1.8 km
  • Camber Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre1.9 km
  • Renaissance yoga & well beinggym2 km
  • The Bridge Leisure Centresports centre2.2 km

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

What a Hyrox build looks like from Forest Hill.

Where to train in Forest Hill

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

Closest to the centre you have King's College London Honor Oak Park Sports Ground, Club House and Energie, the nearest of them about 0.6 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.

King's College London Honor Oak Park Sports Ground and Club House 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.

Where to run around Forest Hill

You are well served for measured running around Forest Hill. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Peckham Rye parkrun, Hilly Fields parkrun and Catford parkrun are the closest three, Peckham Rye parkrun being about 1.7 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.

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 Forest Hill

Forest Hill hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.

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 Forest Hill ]

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 Forest Hill

1:1 Hyrox coaching in Forest Hill

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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