[ Glenfield · East Midlands ]

Hyrox training in Glenfield, built around your race.

There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Glenfield, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and The Gym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC, roughly 42 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.

A deep sled push at full effort, side on

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.

Two athletes running uphill under a wide open sky

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.

Ben Sutherland front on after an effort at a training camp

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 Glenfield ]

The ground you actually train on in Glenfield.

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.

  • Braunstone parkrun · Braunstone, Leicester2.6 km
  • Abbey Park parkrun4.2 km
  • Leicester Victoria parkrun · Victoria Park5.7 km
  • Watermead Country Park parkrun7.9 km

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

Your nearest race

NEC

Birmingham · October 2026

Roughly 42 km from Glenfield 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 Glenfield to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.

[ Gyms in Glenfield ]

Where you can train in Glenfield.

Glenfield 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: Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.

  • Sole Fitnesssports centre0.8 km
  • New Parks Leisure Centresports centre1 km
  • Braunstone Leisure Centresports centre2.1 km
  • Braunstone Grovesports centre2.2 km
  • Danehills Tennis Clubsports centre2.2 km
  • Westfields Tennis Clubsports centre2.3 km
  • Leicester Leys Leisure Centresports centre3 km
  • Kirby Muxloe Bowls Clubsports centre3.1 km
  • Beaumont Park Football Foundationsports centre3.2 km
  • Westcotes Bowling Clubsports centre3.3 km
  • Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym3.7 km
  • Abbey Sports & Leisure Clubgym3.7 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 Glenfield; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Glenfield. 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 Glenfield ]

What a Hyrox build looks like from Glenfield.

Where to train in Glenfield

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

Closest to the centre you have Sole Fitness, New Parks Leisure Centre and Braunstone Leisure Centre, the nearest of them about 0.8 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.

Sole Fitness and New Parks Leisure 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.

Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and The Gym 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 Glenfield

You are well served for measured running around Glenfield. 5 parkrun courses sit within reach: Braunstone parkrun, Abbey Park parkrun and Leicester Victoria parkrun are the closest three, Braunstone parkrun being about 2.6 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.

They spread from roughly 3 km out to 10 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.

Racing from Glenfield

NEC is roughly 42 km from Glenfield, 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 Glenfield ]

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 Glenfield

1:1 Hyrox coaching in Glenfield

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.

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