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.
[ Great Wakering · East ]
Hyrox training in Great Wakering,
built around your race.
There are 7 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Great Wakering, Freedom Leisure and YMCA among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCeL London, 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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- HYROX Elite 15 athlete
- Multiple Pro Doubles wins
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- 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 Great Wakering ]
The ground you actually train on in Great Wakering.
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.
- Southend parkrun · Gunners Park3.4 km
- Burnham-on-Crouch parkrun · Riverside Country Park8.4 km
- Chalkwell Beach parkrun9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Great Wakering, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
Roughly 54 km from Great Wakering 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 Great Wakering 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 Great Wakering ]
Where you can train in Great Wakering.
Enough choice in Great Wakering 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.
Chains with a site here: Freedom Leisure, YMCA. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Shoeburyness Leisure Centre · Freedom Leisuresports centre2.8 km
- Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre · Freedom Leisuresports centre4.8 km
- Southend Marine Activities Centresports centre5.3 km
- Southend Gymnasticssports centre5.8 km
- IndiRocksports centre6.4 km
- Fitter Body Ladiesgym6.5 km
- YMCAsports centre7.3 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Great Wakering. 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 Great Wakering ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Great Wakering.
Where to train in Great Wakering
Great Wakering has 7 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 Shoeburyness Leisure Centre, Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre and Southend Marine Activities Centre, the nearest of them about 2.8 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.
Shoeburyness Leisure Centre and Southend Leisure & Tennis 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.
Freedom Leisure and YMCA 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 Great Wakering
You are well served for measured running around Great Wakering. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Southend parkrun, Burnham-on-Crouch parkrun and Chalkwell Beach parkrun are the closest three, Southend parkrun being about 3.4 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 Great Wakering
ExCeL London is roughly 54 km from Great Wakering, 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 Great Wakering ]
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 Great Wakering
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Great Wakering
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
[ Great Wakering ]
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