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.
[ Knotty Ash · North West ]
Hyrox training in Knotty Ash,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Knotty Ash, Anytime Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 44 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 Knotty Ash ]
The ground you actually train on in Knotty Ash.
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.
- Croxteth Hall parkrun · Croxteth Hall Country Park2.9 km
- Princes parkrun, Liverpool · Princes Park, Liverpool5.2 km
- Knowsley parkrun · Stadt Moers Park5.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Knotty Ash, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 44 km from Knotty Ash 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 Knotty Ash 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 Knotty Ash ]
Where you can train in Knotty Ash.
Knotty Ash 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: Anytime Fitness. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Dynamixgym1 km
- Melwoodsports centre1.7 km
- Alma Fitness Studiogym2.1 km
- Hope Park Sportssports centre2.8 km
- Volair Stockbridgesports centre2.9 km
- Liverpool Tennis Centresports centre3 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym3.5 km
- Stockbridge Amateur Boxing Clubsports centre3.5 km
- Lifestyles Ellergreengym3.6 km
- AFC Knowsley C.I.C.sports centre3.8 km
- LC Sports in Liverpool Collegesports centre4 km
- Greenbank Sports Academysports centre4.2 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Knotty Ash; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Knotty Ash. 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 Knotty Ash ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Knotty Ash.
Where to train in Knotty Ash
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Knotty Ash. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Dynamix, Melwood and Alma Fitness Studio, the nearest of them about 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.
Melwood and Hope Park Sports 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.
Anytime 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 Knotty Ash
You are well served for measured running around Knotty Ash. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Croxteth Hall parkrun, Princes parkrun, Liverpool and Knowsley parkrun are the closest three, Croxteth Hall parkrun being about 2.9 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
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 Knotty Ash
Manchester Central is roughly 44 km from Knotty Ash, 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 Knotty Ash ]
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 Knotty Ash
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Knotty Ash
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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