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.
[ Leicester · East Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Leicester,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Leicester, The Gym and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC, roughly 45 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 Birmingham. 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 Leicester ]
The ground you actually train on in Leicester.
Leicester is 45 minutes from Birmingham NEC, a natural training catchment for Midlands Hyrox racers. Affiliate gyms cluster in the city centre and surrounding suburbs.
Your nearest race: HYROX Birmingham →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.
- Abbey Park parkrun1 km
- Leicester Victoria parkrun · Victoria Park1.9 km
- Braunstone parkrun · Braunstone, Leicester3.3 km
- Watermead Country Park parkrun6.4 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Leicester, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 45 km from Leicester 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 Leicester to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Leicester ]
Where you can train in Leicester.
Leicester 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: The Gym, PureGym, Bannatyne Health Club, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, The Gym Group. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- DW Fitnessgym0.1 km
- Social Climbingsports centre0.2 km
- The Gymgym0.3 km
- 1855 Fitnessgym0.3 km
- Chinese Acupuncturegym0.4 km
- hiitnessgym0.5 km
- PureGymgym0.6 km
- Syngym0.6 km
- Bannatyne Health Clubgym0.7 km
- Queen Elizabeth II Sports Centresports centre0.8 km
- Abbey Sports & Leisure Clubgym0.9 km
- St Margarets Pastures Sports Centresports centre0.9 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 Leicester; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Leicester. 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 Leicester ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Leicester.
Where to train in Leicester
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Leicester. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have DW Fitness, Social Climbing and The Gym, 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.
Social Climbing and Queen Elizabeth II Sports Centre 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.
The Gym, PureGym and Bannatyne Health Club 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 Leicester
You are well served for measured running around Leicester. 4 parkrun courses sit within reach: Abbey Park parkrun, Leicester Victoria parkrun and Braunstone parkrun are the closest three, Abbey Park parkrun being about 1 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
They spread from roughly 1 km out to 6 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Leicester
NEC is roughly 45 km from Leicester, 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 Leicester ]
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 Leicester
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Leicester
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
[ Leicester ]
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