For HYROX gyms and the people who race in them
Taper keeps your members showing up, and proves it.
A HYROX gym’s members become a race crew, and owners see weekly show-up and who needs a coach.
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For gym owners
Taper keeps your members showing up, and proves it.
HYROX racers train hard, bring their friends and fire up your floor. When one drifts, it’s easy to miss until they’re gone. Taper shows you every week who is showing up and who needs a coach.
Crew Pulse
See what share of your joined crew showed up this week, every week. It is a team total with no names, once five members have joined.
Members who need you
Taper flags racers who have not been in for ten days or missed a milestone. Green, yellow and red A coach reaches out before they drift.
The Monday report
Every Monday morning you get one short report: how much of your crew showed up, who needs a coach, and the races and results coming up.
Teams within teams.
Your HYROX racers become a team inside your gym. They push each other, make sure everyone shows up, make progress together and keep their memberships going.
1 in 3
gym members leave every year. Your racers shouldn’t be in that third.
Industry average annual retention 66.4%, Health & Fitness Association, 2025.
“I helped build Taper because I was losing track of my own racers. Now I know where every one of them stands.”
What you get
One home for your gym’s race crew.
Group chats are great for logistics and bad at memory. Taper keeps your racers, their races and their progress in one place, year round.
A crew for every race
Everyone racing the same event in one chat. Training callouts, travel, team dinners and race weekend plans.
Find your partner
Looking for a doubles or relay partner? Say what you want. We introduce you when you both say yes.
Race weekend together
See who’s racing when, with heat times, so the crew is there cheering.
Your road to race day
See your countdown and the milestones between here and the start line: joining the crew, a baseline test, a simulation, a relay, a retest and race day. Tap when you train and your crew’s show-up goes up.
Race history and splits
Add the races you've done or signed up for, any format. See your strongest station and where you have the most room to grow.
For athletes
Race with your people, not just next to them.
Join your gym’s crew for the race you entered, find a partner who wants the same race, keep your results and splits in one place and see your road to race day.
- Know who from your gym is racing, and when.
- Meet a doubles or relay partner when you both say yes.
- See your race countdown and your road to race day every time you open the app.
Your gym sends the invite.
For gyms
Know your racers without running a second job.
Every racer organized
Who’s racing, which city, which division, which day. One screen for owners and coaches.
Catch drift early
Green, yellow, red. Coaches see who needs a nudge before they drift, without daily check-ins.
Fill your events
Simulations, relays and crew runs with RSVPs, all in one place.
Owner report. Every Monday: how much of your crew showed up, who needs a coach, which races are coming up and what to do next.
Control. You choose who is invited, can remove any post, photo or video, and can remove a member or delete an account at any time.
How it works
Three steps to your gym’s race crew.
Step 1
Invite your racers.
You pick who’s in. Members join from your invite and add their races.
Step 2
Build the crew.
Every race gets a crew: chat, events, travel and partners.
Step 3
Coaches stay close.
Coaches see who needs a nudge. Members choose what the crew sees.
We set up your first crew with you.
Request a pilotTry it
Try a crew, a race and a coach desk.
Sample data. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
Your gym’s race community
- 1. Choose a view
- 2. Try the task
- 3. See the result
Your race life, together.
Pick a view and try what members and coaches do every week.
All names here are illustrative. Real crews, events and tests live inside your gym’s Taper.
Privacy
Your race life stays yours.
Crew chat is for the crew. Other members never see your race history; your gym owner can. Your Readiness Score, a private coaching tool, is off until you turn it on, and then your coaches and gym owner can see it. You can ask for your data to be exported, corrected, restricted or deleted.
Why Taper
Keep your group chat. Taper is the home your crew comes back to all year.
One gym’s crews, run by its coaches, private by default, and alive between races, not just on race week.
Founders
Built with a working gym.
Shawn and Christo are building Taper with BC Block’s coaches and racers in Nashville.
Shawn Booth
Co-founder
Gym operator and coach in Nashville’s HYROX community. Shapes the race-community experience with his coaches and members.
Christo Huntington
Co-founder
Builds Taper and races HYROX himself.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
For athletes
How do I join my gym’s crew?
Your gym sends you an invitation. After you accept it, you add the races you have actually entered and join the crews for those events.
Do I have to share my results?
No. Other members never see your race history or your Readiness Score. Your gym owner can see your race history. Your Readiness Score, a private coaching tool, is off until you turn it on, and then your coaches and gym owner can see it and the results behind it. You choose what, if anything, to share with your crew.
What is the Readiness Score?
A private coaching tool, not a fitness score for athletes. Once you turn it on, your coaches and gym owner can see how much comparable race evidence you have recorded and how recent it is. It is not a prediction of your finish or a percentage of how ready you are, and missing data never counts as zero.
What happens to missing splits?
They stay missing. Taper shows what was recorded and never fills in a split for you.
How do partner introductions work?
Tell Taper which race and format you want, such as doubles or relay. An introduction happens only when both people have said yes. Adding an interest does not register you for a race or put you on a team.
Is there an app?
The pilot starts with an iPhone beta and mobile web for everyone else. Your gym sends the install link. A native Android app is not part of the first pilot.
Who can see what I post?
Crew chat is visible to that crew, and photos and videos appear as soon as you post them. Your gym’s owner, coaches and Taper’s founders can remove posts that break the community guidelines, and the owner and founders can remove members. You can report a message, block someone or leave a conversation at any time.
For gym owners and coaches
Is BC Block connected to Taper?
Yes. Shawn Booth, one of Taper’s two co-founders, owns BC Block, the pilot gym. We say so up front: this is a founder-run pilot, not an independent study.
What does a pilot involve?
A short call with a founder, a small invited group of your racers and coaches, and a crew for each race your athletes have actually entered. We set up the first crew with you and check in on what is and is not useful.
How do I see whether my members keep showing up?
Crew Pulse shows the share of your joined members who checked in or tapped that they trained this week, as a team total with no names, once five members have joined. Your Monday report adds who needs a coach.
How much coach time does it take?
Coach Desk is designed for a few minutes a week. We record the time pilots really take and report it to you honestly.
Does it replace our coaching or programming?
No. Taper does not write training plans or make decisions for coaches. Coach Desk helps you notice who is racing and who might want a check-in.
What do athletes keep private?
Other members never see an athlete’s race history or Readiness Score. The gym owner can see race history. Coaches see an athlete’s race results and Readiness Score only after that athlete turns the Readiness Score on. Crew chat does not include private evidence.
Who owns our data?
Your gym controls who is invited. Members can ask for export, correction, restriction or deletion. See Privacy and data use for the full notice.
What does it cost?
Pilot free; gym pricing undecided. Taper is free during the BC Block pilot. We have not set gym pricing and will not charge anything before we have agreed terms with you in writing.
For gym owners
Request a pilot.
Tell us about your gym’s race crew. A founder reads every request and replies by email.
What happens after I request a pilot?
Your request is free. Pilot terms are agreed together.
- 1. We reply. A founder reads your request and writes back by email.
- 2. We talk. We agree who is in the pilot, which races your crew is entering and how your coaches want to use it.
- 3. We start small. Your first crew goes live with a founder helping, and we look at what members actually do together.
This form takes no payment. Terms are agreed with you in writing before a pilot begins. Read the service terms.