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.
[ Rainworth · East Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Rainworth,
built around your race.
There are 18 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Rainworth, Bannatyne Health Club and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 85 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
- Best Doubles 49-51 min
- 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 Rainworth ]
The ground you actually train on in Rainworth.
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.
- Vicar Water Country Park parkrun4.4 km
- Sherwood Pines parkrun · Sherwood Pines Forest Park5.7 km
- Mansfield parkrun7.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Rainworth, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 85 km from Rainworth in a straight line, which for most people is an early train rather than a hotel. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Rainworth to the venue. The date follows the venue's annual cadence rather than a confirmed listing, so check the official Hyrox calendar before booking.
[ Gyms in Rainworth ]
Where you can train in Rainworth.
Rainworth 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: Bannatyne Health Club, PureGym, Anytime Fitness, JD Gyms. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Oak Tree Leisure Centresports centre2.9 km
- Bannatyne Health Clubgym3.5 km
- Lockwell Hill Activity Centresports centre4.1 km
- Lockwell Hill Kartingsports centre4.1 km
- Ravenshead Leisure Centresports centre5.5 km
- PureGymgym5.5 km
- Anytime Fitnessgym5.5 km
- Water Meadowssports centre5.6 km
- Energiegym5.9 km
- Old Tyme Strengthgym6 km
- JD Gymsgym6.1 km
- RS Fitnessgym6.2 km
18 sites within reach of the centre of Rainworth; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Rainworth. 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 Rainworth ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Rainworth.
Where to train in Rainworth
18 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Rainworth. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Oak Tree Leisure Centre, Bannatyne Health Club and Lockwell Hill Activity Centre, the nearest of them about 2.9 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.
Oak Tree Leisure Centre and Lockwell Hill Activity 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.
Bannatyne Health Club, PureGym 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 Rainworth
You are well served for measured running around Rainworth. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Vicar Water Country Park parkrun, Sherwood Pines parkrun and Mansfield parkrun are the closest three, Vicar Water Country Park parkrun being about 4.4 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 Rainworth
Your nearest race is Manchester Central, about 85 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 Rainworth ]
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 Rainworth
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Rainworth
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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