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.
[ Southwater · South East ]
Hyrox training in Southwater,
built around your race.
There are 15 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Southwater, The Gym and PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCel, roughly 60 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
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 Southwater ]
The ground you actually train on in Southwater.
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.
- Horsham parkrun5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Southwater, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCel
London · December 2026
Roughly 60 km from Southwater 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 Southwater to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Southwater ]
Where you can train in Southwater.
Southwater 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, PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Southwater Leisure Centre & Gymsports centre0.4 km
- Bluecoat Sports Health & Fitness Clubsports centre2.4 km
- Horsham District Indoor Bowls Centresports centre4.4 km
- The Bridge Leisure Centregym4.5 km
- Casa de Auragym4.6 km
- The Gymgym4.6 km
- PureGymgym4.8 km
- Horsham Leisure Complexsports centre4.9 km
- Pavilions In The Parkgym5.1 km
- Horsham Boxing Clubsports centre5.1 km
- Horsham Gymnastics Centregym5.2 km
- Dual Strength + Fitnessgym6 km
Train here? Tell the next person what it has. One tap, no account.
Sled (push or pull)Ski ergRower
15 sites within reach of the centre of Southwater; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Southwater. 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 Southwater ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Southwater.
Where to train in Southwater
15 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Southwater. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Southwater Leisure Centre & Gym, Bluecoat Sports Health & Fitness Club and Horsham District Indoor Bowls 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.
Southwater Leisure Centre & Gym and Bluecoat Sports Health & Fitness Club 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 and PureGym 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 Southwater
Horsham parkrun, roughly 5 km from the centre of Southwater, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
Racing from Southwater
ExCel is roughly 60 km from Southwater, 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.
Between the race and the 15 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 Southwater ]
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 Southwater
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Southwater
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
[ Southwater ]
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