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.
[ Formby · North West ]
Hyrox training in Formby,
built around your race.
There are 5 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Formby, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central Convention Complex, roughly 55 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 Manchester. 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 Formby ]
The ground you actually train on in Formby.
Your nearest race: HYROX Manchester →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.
- Crosby parkrun · Crosby Leisure Centre8.5 km
- Kew Woods parkrun9.3 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Formby, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central Convention Complex
Manchester · January 2027
Roughly 55 km from Formby 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 Formby to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Formby ]
Where you can train in Formby.
Enough choice in Formby to find one that suits the training rather than the other way round. Ring ahead and ask about sled space and a wall you are allowed to throw at, because those two decide more than anything on the membership page.
- Formby Pool & Gymsports centre0.5 km
- Big Bros Gymgym1.1 km
- 658 Fitnesssports centre5.5 km
- Southport YMCA Gymnastics Clubsports centre5.7 km
- Sefton Academy of Taekwondosports centre7.9 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Formby. 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 Formby ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Formby.
Where to train in Formby
Formby has 5 places to train within reach. Not a wide field, and it means the sensible move is to build the programme around what one or two of them actually have rather than hunting for a perfect fit.
Closest to the centre you have Formby Pool & Gym, Big Bros Gym and 658 Fitness, the nearest of them about 0.5 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.
Formby Pool & Gym and 658 Fitness 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 Formby
Crosby parkrun, roughly 8.5 km from the centre of Formby, 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 9 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Formby
Manchester Central Convention Complex is roughly 55 km from Formby, 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 5 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 Formby ]
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 Formby
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Formby
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
Suth Performance
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
[ Formby ]
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