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.
[ Kensington · London ]
Hyrox training in Kensington,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Kensington, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 16 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.
Start the 3-minute quizFree consultation with Ben · no card, no commitment
- 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
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 Kensington ]
The ground you actually train on in Kensington.
Your nearest race: HYROX London ExCel →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.
- Fulham Palace parkrun · Bishops Park3.2 km
- Battersea parkrun3.5 km
- Wormwood Scrubs parkrun · Wormwood Scrubs Park3.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Kensington, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Close enough to Kensington to get there on race morning without staying over, and close enough to walk the venue beforehand if you want to. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Kensington to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Kensington ]
Where you can train in Kensington.
Kensington 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.
- Core Collectivegym0.1 km
- The Kensington Studiogym0.5 km
- Equinox Kensingtongym0.6 km
- Body Fixgym0.7 km
- Campden Hill Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre0.8 km
- Soho Gymsgym0.9 km
- Harbour Clubgym0.9 km
- Holland Park Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre1 km
- The Life Centre Notting Hillgym1 km
- London Lifestyle Academygym1.1 km
- FitStudioZgym1.2 km
- Kinetic Fitness Studiogym1.5 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 Kensington; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Kensington. 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 Kensington ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Kensington.
Where to train in Kensington
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Kensington. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Core Collective, The Kensington Studio and Equinox Kensington, the nearest of them about 0.1 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.
Campden Hill Lawn Tennis Club and Holland Park Lawn Tennis Club 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.
Where to run around Kensington
You are well served for measured running around Kensington. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Fulham Palace parkrun, Battersea parkrun and Wormwood Scrubs parkrun are the closest three, Fulham Palace parkrun being about 3.2 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
All of them sit within about 4 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Kensington
ExCel is roughly 16 km from Kensington, 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.
Between the race and the 20 places to train listed here, the constraint is rarely equipment. It is the calendar, which is why the programme is dated to a day rather than numbered by week.
[ Near Kensington ]
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 Kensington
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Kensington
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
[ Kensington ]
Your race is coming either way. Train like it.
Three-minute quiz. Real Week 1, free.
Free consultation first. Cancel anytime. Prefer to talk straight away? Book your free consultation.
Looking for general coaching instead? Personal training in Kensington →