[ Illinois · United States ]
A personal trainer in Illinois,
without the hourly rate.
There are 52 named gyms and sports centres across Chicago, Aurora and Joliet, Chicago Park District and Planet Fitness among them, and the programme is written around whichever one you use. Illinois hosts a HYROX — Chicago, 11 February 2027 — so every session is dated backwards from that weekend. Online personal training from HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland, rebuilt every Sunday from what you logged.
[ Racing in Illinois ]
Chicago
11 February 2027
600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
[ Where you can train in Illinois ]
Across a state this size the gym that gets used is the one you pass anyway, not the best-equipped one two towns over. These are the named sites in the largest metros, and the programme is written around whichever you land on.
Chicago
- Strength Club
- Dvorak Park Fieldhouse
- Sofive Chitown
- McGuane Park Fieldhouse
- Transformation Fitness
- Bosley Park Fieldhouse
- Park No. 571 Fitness Studio
- Pilsen’s Gym
- ComEd Recreation Center at Addams Park
- Ping Tom Park Pool
- Blink Fitness
- Fosco Park Fieldhouse
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Aurora
- FOXfitness Copley Boxing & Training Center
- Thornton Gymnasium
- Anytime Fitness
- Vaughan Athletic Center
- Ultimate Sports Dome
- UFC Gym
- More-Core Pilates
- LA Fitness
- USA fitness
- Stuart Sports Complex
- FV Kickers NFV
- Fox Valley Kickers
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Joliet
- Pat Sullivan Center
- VASA Fitness
- Inwood Ice Arena
- Chicagoland Speedway
- Challenge Fitness / Lockport Twp. Park District
- Route 66 Raceway
- Planet Fitness
- Range USA
- Autobahn Country Club
- Body Tech Total Fitness
- Wintrust Crossroads Sports Complex of New Lenox
- Charter Fitness
Gym data from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL. It records that a site exists, not what equipment it holds, so check the kit before you commit to a membership.
[ 66 cities and towns in Illinois ]
Coaching is online, so where you are in the state changes what equipment you can reach rather than whether this works. The largest:
- Chicago
- Aurora
- Joliet
- Rockford
- Naperville
- Peoria
- Springfield
- North Peoria
- Elgin
- Waukegan
- Champaign
- Cicero
[ Training around a Illinois week ]
Commutes across Illinois are long enough that the training which survives is the training that fits the day you actually have. A programme that assumes ninety free minutes gets abandoned in week three; one that knows you have forty on a Tuesday does not.
That is the part an hourly trainer cannot do. They can write you a good session; they cannot rewrite the week when work moves, and rewriting the week is most of what keeps people training past the point where motivation runs out.
Training for Hyrox from Illinois
[ Near Illinois ]
Plenty of athletes cross a state line for a race. Distances are between the largest city in each state.
Your race is in Illinois. Build the twelve weeks before it.
Three-minute quiz. Real Week 1, free.