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.
[ Pontypool · Wales ]
Hyrox training in Pontypool,
built around your race.
There are 10 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Pontypool, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 123 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
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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 Pontypool ]
The ground you actually train on in Pontypool.
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.
- Pontypool parkrun · Pontypool Park1.1 km
- Aberbeeg parkrun · Ebbw Valley Cycle Track7 km
- Cwmbran parkrun · Northfields Recreation Ground7.2 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Pontypool, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 123 km from Pontypool in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Pontypool to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Pontypool ]
Where you can train in Pontypool.
Enough choice in Pontypool to find one that suits the training rather than the other way round. Ring ahead and ask about sled space and a wall you are allowed to throw at, because those two decide more than anything on the membership page.
Chains with a site here: Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Canolfan Byw'n Egnïol Pont-y-pŵlsports centre0.7 km
- Pontypool Ski Centresports centre1 km
- Pontypool Amateur Boxing Clubsports centre1.1 km
- Bowden Active Living Centregym1.7 km
- G-Force Kartingsports centre3.8 km
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym4.7 km
- SimplyGymgym5.4 km
- Fairwater Leisure Centresports centre6 km
- LIFT Fitness Studiogym6.4 km
- Newbridge Leisure Centresports centre7.9 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Pontypool. 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 Pontypool ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Pontypool.
Where to train in Pontypool
10 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Pontypool. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Canolfan Byw'n Egnïol Pont-y-pŵl, Pontypool Ski Centre and Pontypool Amateur Boxing Club, the nearest of them about 0.7 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.
Canolfan Byw'n Egnïol Pont-y-pŵl and Pontypool Ski Centre 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 has a site 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 Pontypool
You are well served for measured running around Pontypool. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Pontypool parkrun, Aberbeeg parkrun and Cwmbran parkrun are the closest three, Pontypool parkrun being about 1.1 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 Pontypool
Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, about 123 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.
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 Pontypool ]
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 Pontypool
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Pontypool
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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- 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
[ Pontypool ]
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