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.
[ Strood · South East ]
Hyrox training in Strood,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Strood, Virgin Active and The Gym Group among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Your nearest race is ExCeL London, roughly 34 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 Strood ]
The ground you actually train on in Strood.
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.
- Shorne Woods parkrun · Shorne Woods Country Park4.2 km
- Great Lines parkrun, Medway · Great Lines Heritage ParkPark4.5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Strood, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
Roughly 34 km from Strood 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 Strood 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 Strood ]
Where you can train in Strood.
Strood 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: Virgin Active, The Gym Group, PureGym, JD Gyms. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Strood Leisure Centresports centre0.6 km
- Beefs Fitness Centregym0.9 km
- Virgin Activegym1.2 km
- The Gym Groupgym1.3 km
- Borstal Sports & Social Clubsports centre2.4 km
- Kent Boat & Ski Clubsports centre2.7 km
- Gymgym2.9 km
- Battle Sector Xsports centre2.9 km
- Frindsbury Tennis Clubsports centre3.4 km
- Frindsbury Cricket Clubsports centre3.5 km
- King's Rochester Sports Centresports centre4 km
- PureGymgym4 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Strood; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Strood. 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 Strood ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Strood.
Where to train in Strood
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Strood. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Strood Leisure Centre, Beefs Fitness Centre and Virgin Active, 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.
Strood Leisure Centre and Borstal Sports & Social 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.
Virgin Active, The Gym Group 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 Strood
Shorne Woods parkrun, roughly 4.2 km from the centre of Strood, is your nearest measured 5 km. Free, timed, every Saturday, and the single most useful benchmark you have access to.
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 Strood
ExCeL London is roughly 34 km from Strood, 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 Strood ]
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 Strood
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Strood
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
[ Strood ]
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