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.
[ London · Greater London ]
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of London, Everyone Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. London hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. Built by HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland. See your Week 1 before you decide anything.
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.
Your programme counts back from London. Miss a week and Sunday's rebuild absorbs it — the plan bends, the race date doesn't.
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 London ]
London is the centre of UK Hyrox. ExCeL hosts multiple race weekends a year, the largest affiliate-gym network in the country, and a deep pool of coaches working at every level from First Race to Pro.
Hyrox London: venue, dates and how to prepare →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.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of London, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
The race comes to London. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.
Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in London ]
London 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: Everyone Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
20 sites within reach of the centre of London; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of London. 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 London ]
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of London. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have powerhousefitness.co.uk, The Third Space and Akasha, the nearest of them about 0.3 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.
The Third Space and Jubilee Hall 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.
Everyone Active 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.
You are well served for measured running around London. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Battersea parkrun, Burgess parkrun and Highbury Fields parkrun are the closest three, Battersea parkrun being about 4 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 7 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
London hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.
Having both a race and 8 measured 5 km courses on the doorstep is the combination that makes a season easy to plan: benchmark locally through the build, then race without travelling.
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.
1:1 Hyrox coaching in London
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