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.
[ Milan · Italy ]
Hyrox training in Milan,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Milan, Virgin Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Milan 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.
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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 Milan ]
Milan hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
HYROX Milan: dates, venue and when to start →Your nearest race
Viale Porta Ovest
Milan · December 2026
The race comes to Milan. 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 Milan ]
Where you can train in Milan.
Milan 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: Virgin Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Virgin Activegym0.2 km
- City Clubgym0.2 km
- Prime Milano Duomogym0.3 km
- Skorpiongym0.5 km
- Alaia Missorigym0.5 km
- 20 Hours Clubgym0.5 km
- Miltronicgym0.5 km
- Youpilatesgym0.7 km
- Urban Fitnessgym0.7 km
- 20 Hoursgym0.8 km
- Personal Training Studio Milano AD HOC Carrobbiogym0.8 km
- IN|EX calisthenicsgym0.9 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Milan; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Milan. 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 Milan ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Milan.
Where to train in Milan
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Milan. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Virgin Active, City Club and Prime Milano Duomo, the nearest of them about 0.2 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.
Centro Sportivo San Carlo and PlayMore! Moscova 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.
Virgin 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.
Where to run around Milan
There is no parkrun close to Milan, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
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 Milan
Milan 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.
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 Milan ]
Other cities on the HYROX calendar. The programme is the same wherever you race — these are the ones closest to Milan.
What Hyrox coaching costs in Milan
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Milan
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
[ Milan ]
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