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[ Blackwood · Wales ]
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There are 12 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Blackwood, PureGym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Penallta parkrun is your nearest measured 5 km, which is how you will know it is working. Online personal training from HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland, rebuilt every Sunday from what you logged.
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Log your sessions and the plan recalibrates each Sunday. Strong week, next week pushes harder. Missed sessions, next week rebuilds with more recovery.
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[ Training in Blackwood ]
The ground you actually train on in Blackwood.
Where to run, near you
Free, measured, timed, every Saturday morning. The simplest way to see whether the programme is working is to run the same 5 km every few weeks and watch the number move.
- Penallta parkrun · Penallta House3.7 km
- Aberbeeg parkrun · Ebbw Valley Cycle Track6.5 km
- Coed Cefn-pwll-du parkrun9.6 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blackwood, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
NEC Birmingham
Birmingham · October 2026
Roughly 134 km from Blackwood in a straight line. Far enough that an early wave usually means travelling the night before. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.
Straight-line distance from the centre of Blackwood to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.
[ Gyms in Blackwood ]
Where you can train in Blackwood.
Blackwood 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: PureGym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- PureGymgym1.3 km
- Islwyn Indoor Bowls clubsports centre2.3 km
- Elite Fitnessgym2.5 km
- Sue Noake Leisure Centresports centre3.4 km
- Ty Coppi Adventuressports centre3.9 km
- Markham Community House and Leisure Centregym3.9 km
- Fitness Factory Blackwoodgym4 km
- Centre for Sporting Excellencesports centre4.2 km
- Newbridge Leisure Centresports centre4.6 km
- Deri RFCsports centre6.3 km
- Rock UK Summit Centre Indoor Rock Climbingsports centre6.7 km
- New Tredegar Leisure Centresports centre6.7 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Blackwood. 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 Blackwood ]
What training in Blackwood actually involves.
Where to train in Blackwood
12 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Blackwood. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have PureGym, Islwyn Indoor Bowls club and Elite Fitness, the nearest of them about 1.3 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.
Islwyn Indoor Bowls club and Sue Noake Leisure 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.
PureGym has a site 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 Blackwood
You are well served for measured running around Blackwood. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Penallta parkrun, Aberbeeg parkrun and Coed Cefn-pwll-du parkrun are the closest three, Penallta parkrun being about 3.7 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.
[ Near Blackwood ]
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 personal training costs in Blackwood
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