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.
[ Paignton · South West ]
Hyrox training in Paignton,
built around your race.
There are 14 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Paignton, The Gym and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 258 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
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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 Paignton ]
The ground you actually train on in Paignton.
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.
- Torbay Velopark parkrun1.4 km
- Sharpham Estate parkrun8.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Paignton, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 258 km from Paignton in a straight line, so treat it as a weekend away rather than a day out, and book the room when you book the race. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Paignton to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Paignton ]
Where you can train in Paignton.
Paignton 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: The Gym, PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Queens Park Sports Clubsports centre0.4 km
- Third Space Fitnessgym0.7 km
- Parkfieldsports centre0.8 km
- Torbay Leisure Centresports centre1.3 km
- The Gymgym2.5 km
- South Devon College Sports Centresports centre3 km
- Torquay Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre4 km
- The Boulder Bunkersports centre4.4 km
- Torquay Girls Grammar Schoolsports centre4.5 km
- PureGymgym5.5 km
- Stoke Gabriel Boating Associationsports centre5.8 km
- Torbay Olympic Gymnastics Clubgym6 km
14 sites within reach of the centre of Paignton; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Paignton. 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 Paignton ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Paignton.
Where to train in Paignton
14 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Paignton. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Queens Park Sports Club, Third Space Fitness and Parkfield, 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.
Queens Park Sports Club and Parkfield 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.
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 Paignton
Torbay Velopark parkrun, roughly 1.4 km from the centre of Paignton, 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 Paignton
NEC Birmingham is the nearest venue at roughly 258 km, so racing means a weekend away. Enter early, book the room at the same time, and treat the travel as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
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 Paignton ]
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 Paignton
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Paignton
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
[ Paignton ]
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