[ New Basford · East Midlands ]

Hyrox training in New Basford, built around your race.

There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of New Basford, YMCA and JD Gyms among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 69 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.

Elevated view of two athletes striding down the track straight

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.

Numbered lanes on the track bend with two runners holding form

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.

Coach standing over an athlete mid rowing interval in the gym

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 New Basford ]

The ground you actually train on in New Basford.

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.

  • Forest Rec parkrun · Forest Recreation Gound, Nottingham0.9 km
  • Wollaton Hall parkrun · Wollaton Hall and Deer Park3.8 km
  • Victoria Embankment parkrun, Nottingham · Victoria Embankment4.8 km
  • Colwick parkrun · Colwick Country Park, Nottingham5.5 km

Distances are straight-line from the centre of New Basford, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.

Your nearest race

NEC Birmingham

Birmingham · October 2026

Roughly 69 km from New Basford 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 New Basford to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.

[ Gyms in New Basford ]

Where you can train in New Basford.

New Basford 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: YMCA, JD Gyms, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.

  • Manage Musclegym0.4 km
  • Nottingham Climbing Centresports centre0.4 km
  • Djanogly Community Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
  • Garth'sgym0.8 km
  • Legends Gymgym1.2 km
  • Sports Hallsports centre1.2 km
  • Kinetic Studiogym1.2 km
  • Nottingham Proprietary Bowling Greensports centre1.5 km
  • Ellis Guilford Sports Centresports centre1.7 km
  • Nottingham High School Pavilionsports centre1.7 km
  • Hot Yogasports centre1.8 km
  • Brendon Lawrence Sports Hallsports centre1.8 km

20 sites within reach of the centre of New Basford; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of New Basford. 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 New Basford ]

What a Hyrox build looks like from New Basford.

Where to train in New Basford

20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of New Basford. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.

Closest to the centre you have Manage Muscle, Nottingham Climbing Centre and Djanogly Community Leisure Centre, the nearest of them about 0.4 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.

Nottingham Climbing Centre and Djanogly Community Leisure 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.

YMCA, JD Gyms and The Gym 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 New Basford

You are well served for measured running around New Basford. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: Forest Rec parkrun, Wollaton Hall parkrun and Victoria Embankment parkrun, Nottingham are the closest three, Forest Rec parkrun being about 0.9 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 New Basford

Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, about 69 km away. Far enough that an early wave means going the night before, which is worth budgeting for at the point you enter rather than the week before.

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 New Basford ]

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 New Basford

1:1 Hyrox coaching in New Basford

Hourlysession by session

  • Paid again every time you train
  • Progress lives in the coach's head
  • Limited to their availability

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  • Full week-by-week personalised programme
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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.

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