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.
[ Houston · United States ]
Hyrox training in Houston, United States,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Houston, Orangetheory Fitness and LA Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Houston 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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- 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 Houston ]
Houston hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Houston: dates, venue and when to start →Your nearest race
a venue still to be announced
Houston · April 2027
The race comes to Houston. 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 Houston ]
Where you can train in Houston.
Houston 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: Orangetheory Fitness, LA Fitness, Pure Barre. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Fonde Community Centersports centre0.8 km
- Washington Gymgym1.4 km
- Momentum Indoor Climbing - Silver Streetsports centre1.7 km
- Momentum Rock Climbingsports centre1.7 km
- Orangetheory Fitnessgym1.8 km
- YogaOnesports centre2 km
- Be Fit Gymgym2.1 km
- The Bar Methodgym2.5 km
- Aquatics Centersports centre2.6 km
- Emancipation Park Recreation Centersports centre2.7 km
- Progressive Amateur Boxingsports centre2.8 km
- BIG Power Yogagym3 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Houston; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Houston. 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 Houston ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Houston.
Where to train in Houston
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Houston. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Fonde Community Center, Washington Gym and Momentum Indoor Climbing - Silver Street, 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.
Fonde Community Center and Momentum Indoor Climbing - Silver Street 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.
Orangetheory Fitness, LA Fitness and Pure Barre 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 Houston
There is no parkrun close to Houston, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
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 Houston
Houston 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.
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 Houston ]
Other cities on the HYROX calendar. The programme is the same wherever you race — these are the ones closest to Houston.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Houston
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Houston
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
[ Houston ]
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