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.
[ Hainault · London ]
Hyrox training in Hainault,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Hainault, Virgin Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Hainault 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.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from London. 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 Hainault ]
Hainault hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX London ExCel: dates, venue and when to start →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.
- Roding Valley parkrun · Roding Valley Recreation Ground4.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hainault, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
The race comes to Hainault. 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.
Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Hainault ]
Where you can train in Hainault.
Hainault 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: Virgin Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Powerleague Fairlopsports centre1.1 km
- Fairlop Outdoor Activity Centresports centre1.1 km
- London Marathon Playing Fieldssports centre1.1 km
- Studio23 Gymgym1.2 km
- Syngergy Fitnessgym1.2 km
- Fairlop Waters Sailing Clubsports centre1.6 km
- Fairlop R/C Car Clubsports centre1.6 km
- Jean Brown Indoor Arenagym1.6 km
- Redbridge Sports & Leisuregym1.6 km
- Redbridge Cycling Centresports centre1.6 km
- Norman Booth Buildinggym1.7 km
- Fullwell Cross Leisure Centresports centre2.3 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 Hainault; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hainault. 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 Hainault ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Hainault.
Where to train in Hainault
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Hainault. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Powerleague Fairlop, Fairlop Outdoor Activity Centre and London Marathon Playing Fields, the nearest of them about 1.1 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.
Powerleague Fairlop and Fairlop Outdoor 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.
Virgin Active has a site 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 Hainault
Roding Valley parkrun, roughly 4.4 km from the centre of Hainault, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
Racing from Hainault
Hainault 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.
Having both a race and a measured 5 km on the doorstep is the combination that makes a season easy to plan: benchmark locally through the build, then race without travelling.
[ Near Hainault ]
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 Hainault
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Hainault
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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