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.
[ Thornton Heath · London ]
Hyrox training in Thornton Heath,
built around your race.
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Thornton Heath, The Gym and Better among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Thornton Heath hosts a race, so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. 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
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 Thornton Heath ]
Thornton Heath hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
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.
- South Norwood parkrun · South Norwood Country Park2.7 km
- Crystal Palace parkrun · Crystal Palace Park3.3 km
- Lloyd parkrun, Croydon · Lloyd Park, Croydon4 km
- Bethlem Royal Hospital parkrun5 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Thornton Heath, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
The race comes to Thornton Heath. That means you can walk the venue beforehand, and it means the people you train beside will be on the same start list. A programme dated to that weekend is worth more than a generic twelve weeks.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Thornton Heath 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 Thornton Heath ]
Where you can train in Thornton Heath.
Thornton Heath 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, Better, Virgin Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Thornton Heath Leisure Centresports centre0.1 km
- #Merky FC HQsports centre1 km
- Stones Gym & Fitness Centregym1 km
- Norbury Park Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre1.4 km
- Croydon Sailing Clubsports centre1.8 km
- The Gymgym2.1 km
- Lewis Sports Centresports centre2.1 km
- South Norwood Leisure Centregym2.3 km
- Train with Labonitagym2.3 km
- The Yoga Edgesports centre2.4 km
- Performance 360gym2.5 km
- Duke McKenzie Fitness Centregym2.5 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of Thornton Heath; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Thornton Heath. 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 Thornton Heath ]
What a Hyrox build looks like from Thornton Heath.
Where to train in Thornton Heath
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Thornton Heath. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Thornton Heath Leisure Centre, #Merky FC HQ and Stones Gym & Fitness Centre, the nearest of them about 0.1 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.
Thornton Heath Leisure Centre and #Merky FC HQ 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, Better and Virgin Active 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 Thornton Heath
You are well served for measured running around Thornton Heath. 8 parkrun courses sit within reach: South Norwood parkrun, Crystal Palace parkrun and Lloyd parkrun, Croydon are the closest three, South Norwood 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 Thornton Heath
Thornton Heath hosts a race, which is a bigger advantage than most people use. You can walk the venue, you will train alongside people on the same start list, and you have no travel to plan on the morning.
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 Thornton Heath ]
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 Thornton Heath
1:1 Hyrox coaching in Thornton Heath
Hourlysession by session
- Paid again every time you train
- Progress lives in the coach's head
- Limited to their availability
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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
[ Thornton Heath ]
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