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.
[ Kew · London ]
Hyrox training in Kew,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Kew, Snap Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 22 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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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.
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.
- Gunnersbury parkrun · Gunnersbury Park, South Acton2 km
- Old Deer Park parkrun · Old Deer Park, Richmond2.4 km
- Richmond parkrun · Richmond Park, Richmond upon Thames3.4 km
- Osterley parkrun · Osterley Park4.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Kew, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Close enough to Kew 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 Kew to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Kew ]
Where you can train in Kew.
Kew 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: Snap Fitness. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Cat on the Matgym0.1 km
- Legends Boxing Gymgym0.5 km
- Priory Park Clubsports centre0.5 km
- Pilates4Ugym0.7 km
- Scott's Personal Traininggym0.8 km
- University of London Boat Clubsports centre0.8 km
- Pensford Tennis Clubsports centre0.9 km
- Brentford Fountain Leisure Centresports centre1 km
- Boomerang Pilates and Fitnessgym1 km
- Putney Town Rowing Clubsports centre1.3 km
- West4 Gymgym1.4 km
- Quintin Boat Clubsports centre1.4 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 Kew; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Kew. 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 Kew ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Kew.
Where to train in Kew
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Kew. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Cat on the Mat, Legends Boxing Gym and Priory Park Club, 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.
Priory Park Club and University of London Boat 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.
Snap Fitness 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 Kew
You are well served for measured running around Kew. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Gunnersbury parkrun, Old Deer Park parkrun and Richmond parkrun are the closest three, Gunnersbury parkrun being about 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 6 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Kew
ExCel is roughly 22 km from Kew, 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 Kew ]
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 Kew
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Kew
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
[ Kew ]
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