Don't let the off-season slow you down!
2 June 2025 – 1 September 2025
CrewLAB’s Summer Smasher Challenge is designed to keep athletes engaged and provide all the tools needed to track training and stay connected throughout the off-season.
CrewLAB gives your team a private space to share training logs with photos, like and comment on others’ posts, and track everything through an automatic point system. This keeps training transparent among the team, allowing athletes to hold each other accountable and stay motivated through friendly competition.
Our Teams
“It gives you a sense of community with the privacy of just your own team and made training apart more personable.”
Let's check out the benefits
No more spreadsheets
All team training data will be stored in CrewLAB, and the team leaderboard will be automatically populated in the app.
Increased accountability
Athletes can view each other’s training posts, engage with, and motivate one another, even when apart.
Your team will train more
Every team participating in our previous challenges has seen an increase in off-season training consistency and motivation.
No coach involvement needed
Team captains can manage the challenge independently. Coaches can have a peace of mind knowing their team is training while staying compliant with off-season rules (it’s NCAA/IRA friendly).
How does the challenge work?
Getting started
The challenge begins on June 2 and ends on September 1. All existing CrewLAB app users will be automatically enrolled and grouped into squads (smaller teams within the whole roster) two weeks before the start date, on May 19, 2025.
If you are new to CrewLAB and sign up after May 19th, you will be automatically enrolled in the challenge, but will need to create squads manually. Coaches or captains can do that using the CrewLAB web portal.
Watch a tutorial on how to create squads here.
On June 2, the Analytics tab in the CrewLAB app will switch to display the challenge’s progress and leaderboard points. All squads in your team will be displayed in a chart and compete against each other.
At the end of the challenge, the winning squad, top athletes, and those most engaged with team photos and likes will be celebrated in a Summer Smasher recap.
“CrewLAB has kept us very accountable during the off-season, more so than in the past years without it.”
Leaderboards
- For the first hour of training completed each day, point earnings are boosted by 33%.
- For the third hour of training completed each day, point earnings will be reduced by 50%.
Duration |
Activity |
Points |
|---|---|---|
1 minute |
Swimming, Running, Rowing |
10 points |
1 minute |
Lifting, Mobility |
10 points (max 300) |
1 minute |
Skiing |
7.5 points |
1 minute |
Cycling |
6.6 points |
This year we have also added team and workout enagement points!
Activity |
Points |
|---|---|
Like |
5 points (max 50) |
Comment |
10 points (max 50) |
Wellness check-in |
100 points |
Workout reflection |
+20 points to workout |
Photo added to workout |
+20 points to workout |
Added RPE |
+20 points to workout |
“The individual rankings we had at the end of the challenge were correlated to how well we performed on the tests when we came back.”
Frequently asked questions
Will this be compliant (NCAA/IRA/ACRA/etc)?
Will my athletes care and buy-in?
How much will I have to pay?
Are you selling/sharing my data?
Aren’t they too addicted to their phones?
We've got this covered with ARMS, Teamworks, GroupMe, etc.
Ready for the CrewLAB Summer Smasher challenge?
Join thousands of athletes participating in this year’s CrewLAB Summer Smasher Challenge to stay connected and perform your best.
Download the app and invite your team.
Already a CrewLAB user? Click on your profile icon in our app, then your Team name to view the challenge – it’ll go live on June 2! See you on the leaderboard! 😉