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.
[ Hunts Cross · North West ]
Hyrox training in Hunts Cross,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Hunts Cross, JD Gyms and Goals among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 43 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 Hunts Cross ]
The ground you actually train on in Hunts Cross.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 43 km from Hunts Cross 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 Hunts Cross 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 Hunts Cross ]
Where you can train in Hunts Cross.
Hunts Cross 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: JD Gyms, Goals, David Lloyd Clubs, Anytime Fitness. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- JD Gymsgym0.2 km
- Goalssports centre0.8 km
- David Lloyd Clubssports centre1.4 km
- The Climbing Hangarsports centre1.5 km
- Arncliffe Centresports centre2 km
- Woolton Lifestylessports centre2 km
- Lifestyles Austin Rawlinsongym2.3 km
- Halewood Leisure Centresports centre2.9 km
- Stellaluna Yogagym3.4 km
- Finch Farm (Everton F.C. academy)sports centre3.5 km
- Liverpool Cricket Clubsports centre3.6 km
- Sports Direct Fitnessgym4.1 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Hunts Cross; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hunts Cross. 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 Hunts Cross ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Hunts Cross.
Where to train in Hunts Cross
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Hunts Cross. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have JD Gyms, Goals and David Lloyd Clubs, the nearest of them about 0.2 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.
Goals and David Lloyd Clubs 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.
JD Gyms, Goals and David Lloyd Clubs 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 Hunts Cross
There is no parkrun close to Hunts Cross, 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 Hunts Cross
Manchester Central is roughly 43 km from Hunts Cross, 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 Hunts Cross ]
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 Hunts Cross
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Hunts Cross
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.
Common questions
[ Hunts Cross ]
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