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.
[ Gresford · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Gresford,
built around your race.
There are 19 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Gresford, Total Fitness and Freedom Leisure among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 65 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 Gresford ]
The ground you actually train on in Gresford.
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.
- Park in the Past parkrun6.6 km
- Erddig parkrun · Erddig Hall6.9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Gresford, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 65 km from Gresford 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 Gresford 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 Gresford ]
Where you can train in Gresford.
Gresford 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: Total Fitness, Freedom Leisure, PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Colliers Parksports centre0.8 km
- Focussed Fitnessgym3.3 km
- Rhosnesni Leisure and Activity Centresports centre3.3 km
- IPC Gym Wrexhamgym3.6 km
- Gwyn Evans Leisure and Activity Centresports centre3.7 km
- Darland Leisure and Activity Centresports centre3.8 km
- Wrexham Tennis Centresports centre3.9 km
- RPM Fitnesssports centre3.9 km
- Morgan Llwyd Leisure & Activity Centresports centre3.9 km
- Total Fitnessgym4 km
- Lex F.C. Stansty Parksports centre4.2 km
- Freedom Leisure - Waterworld Gymgym4.3 km
19 sites within reach of the centre of Gresford; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Gresford. 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 Gresford ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Gresford.
Where to train in Gresford
19 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Gresford. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Colliers Park, Focussed Fitness and Rhosnesni Leisure and Activity 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.
Colliers Park and Rhosnesni Leisure and Activity 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.
Total Fitness, Freedom Leisure and PureGym 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 Gresford
Park in the Past parkrun, roughly 6.6 km from the centre of Gresford, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
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 Gresford
Your nearest race is Manchester Central, about 65 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.
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 Gresford ]
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 Gresford
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Gresford
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
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