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.
[ Strathaven · Scotland ]
Hyrox training in Strathaven,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Strathaven, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing and Xercise4Less among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is OVO Hydro, roughly 25 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 Strathaven ]
The ground you actually train on in Strathaven.
Your nearest race
OVO Hydro
Glasgow · November 2026
Close enough to Strathaven 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 Strathaven to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Strathaven ]
Where you can train in Strathaven.
Strathaven 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: Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, Xercise4Less, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Larkhall Leisure Centresports centre8.6 km
- Gasworks Parksports centre8.9 km
- Eddlewood Bowling Clubsports centre9 km
- Hareleeshill Sports Barnsports centre9 km
- K-Park Training Academysports centre9.6 km
- Larkhall Circuitsports centre10 km
- Ballerup Sports Centresports centre10.3 km
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeinggym10.3 km
- Alistair McCoist Sports Centresports centre10.9 km
- Bilco's play barnsports centre10.9 km
- New Age Fitnessgym10.9 km
- Xercise4Lessgym11 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Strathaven; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Strathaven. 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 Strathaven ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Strathaven.
Where to train in Strathaven
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Strathaven. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Larkhall Leisure Centre, Gasworks Park and Eddlewood Bowling Club, the nearest of them about 8.6 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.
Larkhall Leisure Centre and Gasworks Park 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.
Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, Xercise4Less and The Gym 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 Strathaven
There is no parkrun close to Strathaven, so you will need to measure your own loop. Pick something flat you can repeat, run it every three or four weeks under the same conditions, and treat that time as your benchmark.
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 Strathaven
OVO Hydro is roughly 25 km from Strathaven, 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 Strathaven ]
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 Strathaven
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Strathaven
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
[ Strathaven ]
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