[ Ohio · United States ]
A personal trainer in Ohio,
without the hourly rate.
There are 60 named gyms and sports centres across Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, YMCA and Orangetheory Fitness among them, and the programme is written around whichever one you use. There is no HYROX in Ohio yet. The nearest is Chicago, roughly 442 km from Columbus 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 · 442 km from Columbus
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 Ohio ]
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.
Columbus
- Seven Studios
- Dueling Axes
- Merelli Yoga
- Shape Fitness Grant Ave
- Studio 543 Yoga Inferno
- Arena District Fitness
- iResolve Fitness
- Columbus Axe Throwing
- Boss Fitness
- Bloc Garten
- Olde Towne Fitness
- Dodge Park Pool
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Cleveland
- Fitworks
- Orangetheory Fitness
- YMCA
- The Foundry
- Title Boxing Club
- CORUS 45
- Harness Cycle
- Planet Fitness
- Cleveland Area Soap Box Derby
- Junker Fitness
- The Cleveland Velodrome
- Anytime Fitness
and 8 more within reach of the centre
Cincinnati
- Trabert-Talbert Tennis Center
- Sheakley Athletics Performance Center
- Fifth Third Arena
- Armory Fieldhouse
- Cincinnati Mind Body Studio
- World Peace Yoga
- Ziegler Park Pool
- Sölhaus
- Main Street Yoga
- 12th Street Pilates
- YMCA
- Cincinnati Fitness Boxing
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.
[ 51 cities and towns in Ohio ]
Coaching is online, so where you are in the state changes what equipment you can reach rather than whether this works. The largest:
- Columbus
- Cleveland
- Cincinnati
- Toledo
- Akron
- Dayton
- Parma
- Canton
- Youngstown
- Lorain
- Hamilton
- Springfield
[ Training around a Ohio week ]
Commutes across Ohio 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 Ohio
[ Near Ohio ]
Plenty of athletes cross a state line for a race. Distances are between the largest city in each state.