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.
[ Rastrick · Yorkshire ]
Hyrox training in Rastrick,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Rastrick, The Gym Group and énergie Fitness among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is Manchester Central, roughly 39 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 Rastrick ]
The ground you actually train on in Rastrick.
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.
- Huddersfield parkrun · Greenhead Park, Huddersfield4.7 km
- Halifax parkrun · Shroggs Park7.2 km
- Dewsbury parkrun · Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury9.3 km
- Oakwell Hall parkrun · Oakwell Hall Country Park9.3 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Rastrick, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
Roughly 39 km from Rastrick 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 Rastrick 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 Rastrick ]
Where you can train in Rastrick.
Rastrick 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, énergie Fitness. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Swimrite School of Swimmingsports centre0.2 km
- Rokt Climbing Gymsports centre0.9 km
- Defiance Fitgym1 km
- Sanctus Fitnessgym1.4 km
- Brighouse Fitness Centregym1.8 km
- Bedlam Paintballsports centre2.2 km
- Woodland Gladesports centre2.4 km
- CrossFit HX5gym2.5 km
- The Deighton Sports Arenasports centre3 km
- Siddal A.R.L.F.C.sports centre4.2 km
- Huddersfield Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre4.3 km
- The Gym Groupgym4.3 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Rastrick; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Rastrick. 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 Rastrick ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Rastrick.
Where to train in Rastrick
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Rastrick. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Swimrite School of Swimming, Rokt Climbing Gym and Defiance Fit, the nearest of them about 0.2 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.
Swimrite School of Swimming and Rokt Climbing 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 and énergie 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 Rastrick
You are well served for measured running around Rastrick. 4 parkrun courses sit within reach: Huddersfield parkrun, Halifax parkrun and Dewsbury parkrun are the closest three, Huddersfield parkrun being about 4.7 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 Rastrick
Manchester Central is roughly 39 km from Rastrick, 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.
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 Rastrick ]
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 Rastrick
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Rastrick
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
Suth Performance
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.
Common questions
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