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[ St James's · London ]
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There are 20 gyms and sports centres within reach of the centre of St James's, Everyone Active and Virgin Active among them, and this programme is written around whichever one you use. Battersea 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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[ Training in St James's ]
St James's hosts a race, which changes how you train for it.
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.
- Battersea parkrun3.4 km
- Burgess parkrun · Burgess Park4.8 km
Distances are straight-line from the centre of St James's, not journey times. Source: parkrun’s own events feed.
Your nearest race
ExCeL London
London · expected March 2027
The race comes to St James's. 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 St James's 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 St James's ]
Where you can train in St James's.
St James's 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: Everyone Active, Virgin Active. If you already hold one of those memberships, you can start this week without paying anything new.
- Tensports centre0.2 km
- Akashagym0.5 km
- The Third Spacesports centre0.6 km
- The Bath & Racquets Clubgym0.8 km
- Marshall Street Leisure Centre · Everyone Activesports centre0.8 km
- SoulCyclegym0.9 km
- Soho Fitness Labgym0.9 km
- powerhousefitness.co.ukgym1 km
- Gymbox Victoriagym1.1 km
- Barrecoregym1.1 km
- Lewis Paris Fitness London Sohogym1.1 km
- Bootcamp Pilatesgym1.2 km
20 sites within reach of the centre of St James's; the twelve closest are listed. Distances are straight-line from the centre of St James's. 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 St James's ]
What training in St James's actually involves.
Where to train in St James's
20 gyms and sports centres sit within a few miles of the centre of St James's. That is enough to choose on what the floor actually holds rather than on which is nearest.
Closest to the centre you have Ten, Akasha and The Third Space, the nearest of them about 0.2 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.
Ten and The Third Space 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.
Everyone Active 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 St James's
Battersea parkrun, roughly 3.4 km from the centre of St James's, 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 St James's ]
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 St James's
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