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.
[ Oakengates · West Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Oakengates,
built around your race.
There are 19 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Oakengates, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and The Gym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 56 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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- 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 Oakengates ]
The ground you actually train on in Oakengates.
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.
- Telford parkrun · Telford Town Park2.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Oakengates, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 56 km from Oakengates 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 Oakengates to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Oakengates ]
Where you can train in Oakengates.
Oakengates 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: Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, The Gym, PureGym, Anytime Fitness. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Oakengates Leisure Centresports centre1.4 km
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym1.5 km
- The Gymgym1.8 km
- Places Gymgym1.9 km
- PureGymgym2.2 km
- The Circle @ HLCsports centre2.5 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym2.8 km
- Revive Gymgym2.8 km
- Revivesports centre2.8 km
- Women Only Workoutgym3.1 km
- The Shropshiresports centre3.7 km
- Wrekin College Sport Centresports centre3.9 km
19 sites within reach of the centre of Oakengates; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Oakengates. 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 Oakengates ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Oakengates.
Where to train in Oakengates
19 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Oakengates. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Oakengates Leisure Centre, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and The Gym, the nearest of them about 1.4 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.
Oakengates Leisure Centre and The Circle @ HLC 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.
Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, The Gym and PureGym 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 Oakengates
Telford parkrun, roughly 2.6 km from the centre of Oakengates, 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 Oakengates
NEC Birmingham is roughly 56 km from Oakengates, 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.
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 Oakengates ]
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 Oakengates
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Oakengates
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
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