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.
[ Smethwick · West Midlands ]
Hyrox training in Smethwick,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Smethwick, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is NEC Birmingham, roughly 17 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 Smethwick ]
The ground you actually train on in Smethwick.
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.
- Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun2.7 km
- Sandwell Valley parkrun · Sandwell Park Farm3.2 km
- Perry Hall parkrun · Perry Hall Park5.1 km
- Woodgate Valley Country Park parkrun5.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Smethwick, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Close enough to Smethwick 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 Smethwick to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Smethwick ]
Where you can train in Smethwick.
Smethwick 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.
- Harry Mitchell Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
- Skarz Soccer Centresports centre1.2 km
- Hadley Stadium Gymgym1.2 km
- Hadley Stadium Leisure Centresports centre1.2 km
- One 2 One Workoutsgym1.4 km
- Sandwell Aquatics Centre & Parksports centre1.5 km
- Sandwell Aquatics Centresports centre1.6 km
- West Bromwich Albion Academysports centre1.6 km
- Bearwood Yogagym1.8 km
- Legion Fitnesssports centre2 km
- 24/7 Fitnessgym2.2 km
- Penny Mason Yoga and Fitnessgym2.3 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Smethwick; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Smethwick. 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 Smethwick ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Smethwick.
Where to train in Smethwick
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Smethwick. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre, Skarz Soccer Centre and Hadley Stadium Gym, the nearest of them about 0.6 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.
Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre and Skarz Soccer 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.
Where to run around Smethwick
You are well served for measured running around Smethwick. 6 parkrun courses sit within reach: Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun, Sandwell Valley parkrun and Perry Hall parkrun are the closest three, Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun being about 2.7 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 Smethwick
NEC Birmingham is roughly 17 km from Smethwick, 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 Smethwick ]
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 Smethwick
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Smethwick
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
[ Smethwick ]
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