The 5-Track HYROX Class Rotation That Doubled Race Sign-Ups Every Year

Brad Raysby started his HYROX program with 12 people who didn't really know what HYROX was. Four years later, Rally Point Endeavors in Northbrook, Illinois runs HYROX classes 7 days a week, AM and PM. Race sign-ups have doubled every single year. Members are traveling internationally to compete.

The system behind all of it is a 5-track class rotation that gives members enough variety to show up daily while building every energy system they need for race day.

Here's exactly how it works.

The Five Formats

Brad thinks of his HYROX programming as a continuum. On one end, you have pure strength. On the other, pure aerobic capacity. The five class formats sit along that spectrum, and each one targets a different piece of what HYROX demands.

1. HYROX Strong

This is the strength end of the continuum. Sets and reps. Often barbell-focused. Think of it as the class that builds the raw power needed to handle heavy sled pushes, heavy sled pulls, and loaded lunges on race day.

Strong classes attract members who identify more as lifters. It's also where Brad keeps his CrossFit athletes engaged with the HYROX program because the format feels familiar.

2. HYROX Total

Move one step toward the middle. Total is muscular stamina. Medicine balls, kettlebells, dumbbells, sandbags, sleds. The work periods are longer than Strong, and the focus shifts from max output to sustained effort under moderate load.

This is race-relevant because HYROX stations demand repeated work at moderate intensity. You're not maxing out on the wall balls. You're grinding through 100 of them. Total trains that capacity.

3. HYROX Race

Dead center of the continuum. Race-format classes are tempo-based work. Not full race simulations, but workouts structured at race pace. Members learn what it feels like to hold a sustainable effort across mixed modalities.

This is where athletes start connecting the dots between training and competing. They learn pacing, transitions, and what it actually feels like to do a station after a 1K run. Brad introduced "compromised running" sessions in this format: extended running intervals mixed with intervals of the movement of the day. The goal is to train the specific feeling of doing stations while fatigued from running.

4. HYROX Interval

Moving toward the endurance end. Interval classes focus on threshold work. These aren't short Tabata-style bursts. They're longer intervals with structured rest, designed to push athletes to their lactate threshold and bring them back down.

Brad describes it as "where people are going to feel it that day and the next day." The intensity is high, but the rest is built in. It trains the body to recover faster between efforts, which directly translates to recovering between stations during a race.

5. HYROX Capacity

The far end of the continuum. Capacity is pure aerobic base-building. Long, sustained efforts at moderate intensity. This is the class that prepares members for the reality that most of them will be on the HYROX course for 90 minutes or more.

Brad made an important point about this: very few members are going sub-60. That's world-class territory. Most are out there for 90 minutes to 2 hours. If your classes are only 60 minutes long and you're only doing high-intensity work, you're not preparing them for the actual demands of race day. Capacity fills that gap.

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How the Rotation Works in Practice

Brad doesn't run all five formats every day. The rotation is structured across the week and the weekend, with a smart recycling system that ensures every member gets access to every format.

The weekend is the testing ground. Saturday and Sunday each have three class times. All six weekend workouts are unique, but they follow the five formats. Members who come both days get exposure to different training stimuli.

Weekday classes are recycled weekend workouts. This is the clever part. Whatever Brad programs on a Saturday at 7:15 AM shows up as the workout of the day the following Monday, nine days later. This gives weekday-only members access to the same workouts. It also gives weekend members a second chance to re-test a workout with a different strategy or intensity.

Members can double up. Because back-to-back classes feature different formats, members who want more volume can attend two consecutive sessions and get complementary training stimuli with appropriate variety. A member might do Strong at 7:15, then Total at 8:30, and get both strength and stamina work in a single morning.

How This Evolved (You Don't Start Here)

This is critical to understand: Brad did not launch with a 5-track, 7-day-a-week HYROX schedule. He built it over four years.

Fall 2022: 6-week specialty program for 12 members signed up for a local race. No HYROX classes on the regular schedule. Just the prep program plus existing CrossFit and Endure classes.

2023: Replaced one of three weekend classes with a HYROX class. Picked the busiest time slot on purpose so existing members would experience the format even if they didn't specifically sign up for it.

2024: Replaced the entire weekend with HYROX. Three classes Saturday, three Sunday, all six unique. This was the big move. There was pushback from members who liked the old weekend format. Brad leaned in anyway.

Late 2024: Added a Friday evening 90-minute hybrid class. Part Assault Bike or rower workout (30-40 minutes), part race-tempo HYROX work. This class served members driving 40-60 minutes specifically for weekend HYROX training. Brad created a special weekend membership tier for these athletes.

2026: Full 7-day HYROX schedule, AM and PM, with the weekend-to-weekday recycling system.

Each step was a response to demand, not a pre-planned roadmap. Brad kept his finger on the pulse, made decisions when the data supported them, and was willing to push through short-term pushback for long-term growth.

The Role of Specialty Programs

The class rotation is only half the picture. Brad also runs specialty programs anchored to specific race dates. These are separate from the regular class schedule.

For the November 2025 Chicago race, he ran a 10-week program called "Road to Navy Pier." It included weekly Sunday coaching sessions focused on compromised running: extended running intervals mixed with one HYROX station per week. Members who signed up for the race could do the specialty program on top of (or instead of) regular classes.

Earlier versions of the specialty program spent one week on each of the eight HYROX stations. Each Sunday session covered standards, strategy, and a time trial for that station. Members also received a full week of supplementary programming they could do on their own outside of class.

The specialty programs serve two purposes. They give race-bound members structured, event-specific preparation. And they give non-racing members a taste of what HYROX training looks like in a low-commitment format. Several people have started with a specialty program and eventually converted to full HYROX memberships.

What Makes This Work Beyond Programming

Brad was clear about this in the webinar: the rotation works because of what surrounds it, not just what's in it.

The whiteboard. There's a physical whiteboard at Rally Point with the names of every member signed up for the next race. Everyone who walks into the gym sees it. It creates accountability, excitement, and a little bit of social pressure. It's one of the simplest and most effective tools Brad uses.

Coach buy-in. Every coach on staff has raced HYROX. Brad did his first race with a weighted vest. He did a doubles race with a younger coach who was on the fence about the whole thing. When members see their coaches racing, the dynamic shifts from "instructor" to "teammate."

Social proof. Brad doesn't do heavy HYROX posting on social media. It's present enough to keep attention but not so constant that it feels pushy. The real social proof comes from members sharing their race-day content, coaches posting about training, and the HYROX ecosystem itself tagging affiliates.

The HYROX ecosystem. Brad repeatedly credited HYROX's own marketing for driving demand. He doesn't pay for HYROX-related advertising. The brand awareness, the race calendar, the affiliate directory, the social media machine... it all funnels people toward affiliated gyms. Brad's job is to have a compelling offer waiting for them when they arrive.

Getting Started

If you're reading this and thinking "that sounds like a lot," remember: Brad started with 12 people and a 6-week program. He didn't have HYROX-branded equipment until year four.

You don't need five class formats on day one. You need one race date, one prep program, and coaches who are willing to race it themselves. Start there. Pay attention to what your members respond to. Add complexity only when demand supports it.

The 5-track rotation is where you can end up. It's not where you start.

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