[ Croydon · London ]

A personal trainer in Croydon, without the hourly rate.

There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Croydon, F45 Training and Virgin Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Lloyd parkrun, Croydon 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 Croydon ]

The ground you actually train on in Croydon.

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.

  • Lloyd parkrun, Croydon · Lloyd Park, Croydon1.5 km
  • Roundshaw Downs parkrun · Roundshaw Downs, near South Croydon2.4 km
  • South Norwood parkrun · South Norwood Country Park4 km

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

Your nearest race

ExCeL London

London · expected March 2027

Close enough to Croydon 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 Croydon 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 Croydon ]

Where you can train in Croydon.

Croydon 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: F45 Training, Virgin Active, The Gym, London Climbing Centres, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.

  • F45 Traininggym0.1 km
  • Virgin Activegym0.3 km
  • MYPT Therapygym0.4 km
  • Reformer Club by MyPTgym0.4 km
  • MYPT Cyclegym0.4 km
  • Totstars Academysports centre0.6 km
  • The Gymgym1.2 km
  • CroyWall Climbing Centregym1.2 km
  • Croywall · London Climbing Centressports centre1.2 km
  • South Croydon Sports Clubsports centre1.2 km
  • Waddon Leisure Centresports centre1.4 km
  • Sandilands Clubsports centre1.7 km

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

What training in Croydon actually involves.

Where to train in Croydon

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

Closest to the centre you have F45 Training, Virgin Active and MYPT Therapy, 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.

Totstars Academy and Croywall 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.

F45 Training, Virgin Active 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 Croydon

You are well served for measured running around Croydon. 3 parkrun courses sit within reach: Lloyd parkrun, Croydon, Roundshaw Downs parkrun and South Norwood parkrun are the closest three, Lloyd parkrun, Croydon being about 1.5 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 Croydon ]

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 Croydon

A personal trainer in Croydon

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