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.
[ Ossett · Yorkshire ]
Hyrox training in Ossett,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Ossett, Total Fitness and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 49 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 Ossett ]
The ground you actually train on in Ossett.
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.
- Dewsbury parkrun · Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury4.5 km
- Wakefield Thornes parkrun · Thornes Park4.7 km
- Middleton Woods parkrun · Middleton Park8.1 km
- Oakwell Hall parkrun · Oakwell Hall Country Park8.9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ossett, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 49 km from Ossett 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 Ossett to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Ossett ]
Where you can train in Ossett.
Ossett 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: Total Fitness, PureGym, The Gym, JD Gyms, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Lews Fitnessgym0.4 km
- Otterflow Pilates & Yogasports centre1.4 km
- Total Fitnessgym2.2 km
- Muscle Worldgym2.9 km
- PureGymgym3.2 km
- Dewsbury Sports Centre (CLOSED)sports centre3.3 km
- Slazenger Sports Clubsports centre3.3 km
- Overthorpe Parksports centre3.6 km
- The Gymgym4.2 km
- JD Gymsgym4.2 km
- Thornes Park Stadiumsports centre4.3 km
- Pure Gymgym4.9 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Ossett; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Ossett. 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 Ossett ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Ossett.
Where to train in Ossett
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Ossett. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Lews Fitness, Otterflow Pilates & Yoga and Total Fitness, 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.
Otterflow Pilates & Yoga and Dewsbury Sports Centre (CLOSED) 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.
Total Fitness, PureGym 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 Ossett
You are well served for measured running around Ossett. 4 parkrun courses sit within reach: Dewsbury parkrun, Wakefield Thornes parkrun and Middleton Woods parkrun are the closest three, Dewsbury parkrun being about 4.5 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 Ossett
Manchester Central is roughly 49 km from Ossett, 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 Ossett ]
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 Ossett
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Ossett
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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