[ Cockington · South West ]

A personal trainer in Cockington, without the hourly rate.

There are 13 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Cockington, PureGym and The Gym among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Torbay Velopark 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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A programme written for you

Your level, your equipment, your available days. The quiz takes three minutes and your first week appears before you decide anything.

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It adapts every single week

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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A real athlete behind it

Ben Sutherland competes in the HYROX Elite 15 and coaches athletes from their first session to professional level. Your questions get answered in the app.

[ Training in Cockington ]

The ground you actually train on in Cockington.

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.

  • Torbay Velopark parkrun4.4 km
  • Sharpham Estate parkrun9.8 km

Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cockington, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.

Your nearest race

NEC Birmingham

Birmingham · October 2026

Roughly 255 km from Cockington in a straight line, so treat it as a weekend away rather than a day out, and book the room when you book the race. Whichever race you enter, the programme is built backwards from that date.

Straight-line distance from the centre of Cockington to the venue. Check the official Hyrox calendar for final dates.

[ Gyms in Cockington ]

Where you can train in Cockington.

Cockington 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, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.

  • Torquay Girls Grammar Schoolsports centre1.4 km
  • The Boulder Bunkersports centre1.5 km
  • Torquay Lawn Tennis Clubsports centre1.5 km
  • PureGymgym2.3 km
  • Parkfieldsports centre2.4 km
  • Torbay Olympic Gymnastics Clubgym2.9 km
  • Acorn Centresports centre3.2 km
  • Diverse Fitnessgym3.2 km
  • Queens Park Sports Clubsports centre3.3 km
  • Third Space Fitnessgym3.4 km
  • Torbay Leisure Centresports centre4.3 km
  • The Gymgym5.6 km

13 sites within reach of the centre of Cockington; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Cockington. 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 Cockington ]

What training in Cockington actually involves.

Where to train in Cockington

13 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Cockington. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.

Closest to the centre you have Torquay Girls Grammar School, The Boulder Bunker and Torquay Lawn Tennis Club, the nearest of them about 1.4 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.

Torquay Girls Grammar School and The Boulder Bunker 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 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 Cockington

Torbay Velopark parkrun, roughly 4.4 km from the centre of Cockington, 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.

[ Near Cockington ]

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 Cockington

A personal trainer in Cockington

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