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.
[ Polesworth · West Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Polesworth,
built around your race.
There are 14 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Polesworth, The Gym Group and Anytime Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC, roughly 20 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.
Dated to your race, not week numbers
Your programme counts back from Birmingham. 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 Polesworth ]
The ground you actually train on in Polesworth.
Your nearest race: HYROX Birmingham →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.
- Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun5.9 km
- Kingsbury Water parkrun · Kingsbury Water Park8.8 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Polesworth, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC
Birmingham · October 2026
Close enough to Polesworth to get there on race morning without staying over, and close enough to walk the venue beforehand if you want to. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Polesworth to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Polesworth ]
Where you can train in Polesworth.
Polesworth 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 Group, Anytime Fitness, PureGym, Bannatyne Health Club. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Daytona Tamworthsports centre2.1 km
- Claymore Gymsports centre4.9 km
- CrossFit Tamworthgym5.1 km
- Snowdomesports centre5.6 km
- The Gym Groupgym5.9 km
- Atherstone Leisure Centresports centre6.1 km
- The Fitness Stationgym6.3 km
- Cloud9 Pilates studiogym6.4 km
- Kingdom Gymgym6.5 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym6.5 km
- PureGymgym6.6 km
- Bannatyne Health Clubgym6.7 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
14 sites within reach of the centre of Polesworth; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Polesworth. 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 Polesworth ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Polesworth.
Where to train in Polesworth
14 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Polesworth. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Daytona Tamworth, Claymore Gym and CrossFit Tamworth, the nearest of them about 2.1 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.
Daytona Tamworth and Claymore Gym 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 Group, Anytime Fitness 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 Polesworth
Tamworth Castle Grounds parkrun, roughly 5.9 km from the centre of Polesworth, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
All of them sit within about 9 km of each other, so you can rotate courses without the travel changing, which makes the times comparable.
Racing from Polesworth
NEC is roughly 20 km from Polesworth, 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.
Between the race and the 14 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.
[ Near Polesworth ]
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 Polesworth
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Polesworth
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.
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