[ Minnesota · United States ]
A personal trainer in Minnesota,
without the hourly rate.
There are 60 named gyms and sports centres across Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Rochester, Anytime Fitness and Snap Fitness among them, and the programme is written around whichever one you use. There is no HYROX in Minnesota yet. The nearest is Chicago, roughly 571 km from Minneapolis in a straight line, and the programme is dated backwards from whichever race you enter. Online personal training from HYROX Elite 15 athlete Ben Sutherland, rebuilt every Sunday from what you logged.
[ Your nearest race ]
Chicago
11 February 2027 · 571 km from Minneapolis
Straight-line distance, so the drive is longer. Far enough that a race is a weekend rather than a morning, which changes the taper more than it changes the training — you want to arrive with a day in hand rather than racing off a flight.
[ Where you can train in Minnesota ]
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.
Minneapolis
- Basecamp Fitness
- Anytime Fitness
- YMCA
- Orangetheory Fitness
- The Grind North Loop
- Life Time
- Discover Strength
- Sunna
- ME Physical Therapy
- Minneapolis Pickleball Club
- HotWorx
- Barry’s
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Saint Paul
- St. Paul Bouldering Project
- Milton M. Hurwitz ExerCare Fitness Center
- Air Assault Indoor Paintball
- West Side Arena
- Timberwolf Crossfit
- El Rio Vista Recreation Center
- Onx + Amelia
- Pleasant Arena
- Vertical Endevours
- Saint Paul Eastside YMCA
- Snap Fitness
- Orangetheory Fitness
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Rochester
- Pure Barre
- Goldfish Swim School
- John Drews Field
- Orangetheory Fitness
- John Marshall High School Tennis Courts
- Burn Boot Camp
- Rochester Recreation Center
- Planet Fitness
- Valhalla Rec Bldg/Office
- Rochester Barbell Club
- Regional Sports Center
- Rochester Athletic Club
and 8 more within reach of the centre
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.
[ 33 cities and towns in Minnesota ]
Coaching is online, so where you are in the state changes what equipment you can reach rather than whether this works. The largest:
- Minneapolis
- Saint Paul
- Rochester
- Bloomington
- Duluth
- Brooklyn Park
- Plymouth
- Maple Grove
- Woodbury
- Eagan
- Saint Cloud
- Eden Prairie
[ Training around a Minnesota week ]
Commutes across Minnesota 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 Minnesota
[ Near Minnesota ]
Plenty of athletes cross a state line for a race. Distances are between the largest city in each state.