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.
[ Neilston · Scotland ]
Hyrox training in Neilston,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Neilston, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Neilston 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
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- 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 Neilston ]
Neilston hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
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.
- Pollok parkrun, Glasgow · Pollok Park, Glasgow8.9 km
- Linwood parkrun · ON-X Linwood9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Neilston, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
OVO Hydro
Glasgow · November 2026
The race comes to Neilston. 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.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Neilston to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Neilston ]
Where you can train in Neilston.
Neilston 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.
- Neilston Leisure Centresports centre0.2 km
- Brig O'Lea Stadiumsports centre0.8 km
- Dunterlie Parksports centre2.7 km
- Shanks Bowling Clubsports centre3 km
- Barrhead Bowling Clubsports centre3 km
- Lochfield Bowling Clubsports centre4.9 km
- Meikleriggs Bowling Clubsports centre5.6 km
- Darnley Bowling Clubsports centre5.9 km
- Eastwood High School Pool & Games Hallsports centre6.1 km
- Crookston Bowling Clubsports centre6.2 km
- Wellmeadow Bowling Clubsports centre6.4 km
- UWS Gymgym6.5 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Neilston; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Neilston. 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 Neilston ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Neilston.
Where to train in Neilston
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Neilston. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Neilston Leisure Centre, Brig O'Lea Stadium and Dunterlie Park, 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.
Neilston Leisure Centre and Brig O'Lea Stadium 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.
Where to run around Neilston
Pollok parkrun, Glasgow, roughly 8.9 km from the centre of Neilston, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
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 Neilston
Neilston 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 Neilston ]
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 Neilston
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Neilston
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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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
[ Neilston ]
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