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.
[ Hulme · North West ]
There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of Hulme, JD Gyms and Bannatyne Health Club among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Alexandra parkrun, Moss Side 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.
Your level, your equipment, your available days. The quiz takes three minutes and your first week appears before you decide anything.
Log your sessions and the plan recalibrates each Sunday. Strong week, next week pushes harder. Missed sessions, next week rebuilds with more recovery.
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 Hulme ]
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.
Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hulme, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
Manchester Central
Manchester · expected April 2027
The race comes to Hulme. 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 Hulme 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 Hulme ]
Hulme 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: JD Gyms, Bannatyne Health Club, The Gym. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
20 sites within reach of the centre of Hulme; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of Hulme. 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 Hulme ]
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of Hulme. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Moss Side Leisure Centre, Trinity Sports Centre and Globe Community Fitness & Activity Centre, 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.
Moss Side Leisure Centre and Trinity Sports 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.
JD Gyms, Bannatyne Health Club 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.
You are well served for measured running around Hulme. 6 parkrun courses sit within reach: Alexandra parkrun, Moss Side, South Manchester parkrun and Peel parkrun are the closest three, Alexandra parkrun, Moss Side being about 1.8 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.
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.
A personal trainer in Hulme
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