Hyrox training in Plymouth,
built around your race.

Where to train in Plymouth

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

Closest to the centre you have The Gym, Timber Vault and Trident, the nearest of them about 0.3 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.

Timber Vault and Plymouth City Patriots 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, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing 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 Plymouth

You are well served for measured running around Plymouth. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Central parkrun, Plymouth, Mount Edgcumbe parkrun and Plymvalley parkrun are the closest three, Central parkrun, Plymouth being about 1.6 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.

All of them sit within about 6 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.

Racing from Plymouth

Your nearest race is Principality Stadium, about 140 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.

Between the race and the 20 places to train listed here, the constraint is rarely equipment. It is the calendar, which is why the programme is dated to a day rather than numbered by week.