REVL Training Launches New Race Format: A Pop-Up Underground Concept Where Music Meets Performance

REVL Training, Australia’s boutique functional fitness franchise, has announced REVL Underground – a new short-form concept that reimagines fitness racing as both a competitive and cultural experience. Limited to 48 racers, the event will take place on Thursday 3 September at an undisclosed location in Sydney’s Inner West, revealed only 24 hours before the race.

Drawing on the gritty, lo-fi aesthetic and spontaneity of underground music and pop-up scenes, REVL Underground brings a different energy to fitness racing while keeping performance at its core.

Competitors will face a short-form race built exclusively around ergs and conditioning, with a maximum of four stations and a 30-minute time cap designed to test speed, intensity and sustained output. Men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed doubles divisions will compete in waves throughout the evening, with a $1k cash prize awarded to the winner of each division.

Beyond the race, a DJ alongside local food and drink partners will extend the event into the evening, creating a space for spectators and the wider community to be part of the experience.

“We never set out to build an off-the-shelf fitness brand. REVL Underground is an extension of that –  taking the performance and competition our community wants and building an experience around it that feels distinctly REVL. It brings our edge and grit together with influences from music and culture which have always been integral components of our brand.” said Josh Mildren, CEO, REVL Training.

A New Layer of REVL’s Event Culture

While REVL Underground is a new format for the brand, it forms part of REVL’s broader strategy to build competition and events into the member experience beyond the studio.

Competition already runs through the REVL training ecosystem, with Studio Games giving members an entry point to race within their local communities, while dedicated Race Prep and the REVL Pace Program provide structured pathways into external fitness racing.

At the pinnacle is Race The Globe (RTG), REVL’s annual flagship competition, which brings athletes from across its global network together to race. The 2026 event will take place in Brisbane on Saturday 24 October, with more than 700 athletes expected. More than 50% of capacity was reached within 24 hours of tickets being released, following a pre-sale that sold out in under three hours.

“Race The Globe sits at the pinnacle of our racing calendar, but not every competition needs to look or feel the same. Underground is another way for us to unlock potential in our members, while continuing to innovate around the more experiential and social direction fitness is moving in,” said Josh Mildren, CEO of REVL Training.

Where Race The Globe is built for scale, REVL Underground introduces a shorter, more intimate format designed to bring a different type of racing experience to the calendar.

Sydney will serve as the first iteration of the concept, with REVL planning to use the event as a blueprint for future Underground races across its global studio network.

REVL Underground details:

• Timings: 5pm Thursday 3rd September
• Location: Sydney, NSW | Exact location disclosed 24 hours prior to race
• About: Short form-format ergs and conditioning race. 30-minute cap. Three Divisions
• Event information here: https://revltraining.com.au/underground
• Cash prize for winner of each division