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.
[ Portsmouth · South East ]
Hyrox training in Portsmouth,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Portsmouth, The Gym and Curves among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 111 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 London. 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 Portsmouth ]
The ground you actually train on in Portsmouth.
Your nearest race: HYROX London ExCel →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.
- Great Salterns parkrun · Great Salterns Recreation Ground3.2 km
- Southsea parkrun · Southsea Esplanade3.5 km
- Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun · Lakeside North Harbour4.6 km
- Fareham parkrun · Cams Hall Estate7.7 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Portsmouth, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 111 km from Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Portsmouth ]
Where you can train in Portsmouth.
Portsmouth 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, Curves, Anytime Fitness, Goals. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- The Box Portsmouthsports centre0.4 km
- St Paul's Gymsports centre0.7 km
- Charles Dickens Centresports centre0.7 km
- Portsmouth Tennis Academysports centre0.8 km
- Fratton Community Centresports centre0.9 km
- Ravelin Sports Centregym1 km
- 24|7 Fitnessgym1.5 km
- Gym 01sports centre1.6 km
- Hotspot Yogasports centre1.7 km
- The Gymgym1.8 km
- First Fitnesssports centre1.8 km
- Fratton Gymgym1.9 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
20 sites within reach of the centre of Portsmouth; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Portsmouth.
Where to train in Portsmouth
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Portsmouth. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have The Box Portsmouth, St Paul's Gym and Charles Dickens Centre, 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.
The Box Portsmouth and St Paul's 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, Curves and Anytime Fitness 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 Portsmouth
You are well served for measured running around Portsmouth. 6 parkrun courses sit within reach: Great Salterns parkrun, Southsea parkrun and Portsmouth Lakeside parkrun are the closest three, Great Salterns parkrun being about 3.2 km out. Use one as your fixed benchmark and run it in the same conditions each time, or the number tells you nothing.
They spread from roughly 3 km out to 9 km, so pick one as the benchmark rather than running whichever is convenient — a different course is a different number.
Racing from Portsmouth
Your nearest race is ExCel, about 111 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.
[ Near Portsmouth ]
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 Portsmouth
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Portsmouth
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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[ Portsmouth ]
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