Worth the US$249 member or US$299 general entry if you want a one-off, self-loaded 17-station time trial with your own judge and a shot at a US$25,000 purse in a field capped at roughly 130 athletes. Not for you if you want age-group brackets, a doubles category, a scaled division or a published qualifying path — Life Time publishes none of those for Dallas. And check the site before planning travel: no official page states whether the cap has been reached.
Life Time’s LT Games lands in Texas this week: Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October 2026 at Life Time Frisco, with entry at US$249 for members of at least six months’ standing and US$299 for everyone else, and a US$25,000 prize pool paid on fastest overall time. The format is one workout of 17 stations, completed in a fixed order, where you choose your own weights — the structural opposite of a HYROX division, where the load is set for you.
This is a race guide built from Life Time’s own pages, checked on 29 September 2026. I have not raced LT Games, judged it or attended it, so nothing here is a review of how the floor actually runs. Two things I could not confirm are flagged as such below, including whether entry is still available.
The essentials
| Dates | Friday 2 – Saturday 3 October 2026 |
| Venue | Life Time Frisco, 4900 N Throne Hall Wy, Frisco, TX 75033 |
| Format | 1 workout, 17 stations, fixed order |
| Entry (member, 6+ months) | US$249 per athlete |
| Entry (general) | US$299 per athlete |
| Field size | 130 or 144 — Life Time’s own sources disagree |
| Prize pool | US$25,000 |
| Minimum age | 18 to compete; no minimum for spectators |
Dates, address, prices, schedule and prize breakdown all come from the organiser’s FAQ for the Dallas event, which is undated — treat it as current as of 29 September 2026. The FAQ carries a typo (“Ocotober”), which is worth knowing if you are searching it.
What entry costs, and what the membership rule actually is
US$249 member, US$299 general, per athlete, both per the FAQ. These are shelf prices; I found no coupon, code or promotional entry rate.
The member requirement is tenure, not location. The FAQ states you must have been a member for at least six months to get member pricing, and names no specific club or membership tier. Separately, it states that a Life Time membership is not required to register and compete at all — you just pay the higher number.
There is no qualifying standard. The FAQ says prior competition experience is “encouraged but not required”. Entry is first come, first served until the cap is reached.
I am not going to set that against a HYROX entry fee. The only HYROX prices in front of me are second-hand and about eleven months old, and HYROX prices tier by registration date, so any comparison I published today would be decoration rather than information. Check the specific event page on hyrox.com if you want that figure.
The field size contradiction
Life Time publishes two different caps. The official event site frames Dallas as “1 workout. 1 weekend. 130 competitors. 1 champion”. Life Time’s 1 July 2026 press release says registration opened “with limited availability for 144 athletes”.
I could not establish which is operative. For context, the April 2026 Minneapolis edition was officially capped at 128 athletes, and Life Time described the October 2025 debut as sold out. Either way, this is a small field by hybrid-racing standards.
Registration opened 14 July for members with six months’ tenure and 16 July for everyone, and the FAQ says only that registration “closes when capacity is reached”. It does not say whether capacity has been reached. Four days out, no official page I could find states a sold-out or still-open status, and the one registration-adjacent page is a waitlist sign-up whose copy is ambiguous. Go to ltgames.lifetime.life rather than trusting anyone’s guess, including mine.
How the weight-to-rep system works
Seventeen stations, completed in order, scored on fastest overall time — the FAQ says prize money is “Awarded to fastest overall times”, and race director Wes Robertson, in Life Time’s own interview, describes the goal as completing every station in the fastest time possible. There is no points table.
The mechanism at loaded stations is an accumulated total rather than a fixed rep count. You pick the implement; the reps follow from the arithmetic. Life Time’s Experience Life article describes the 17 stations as roughly 50 per cent strength and 50 per cent cardio, and publishes sample options: a men’s wall ball choice of 20 lb × 50, 16 lb × 63 or 14 lb × 72; men’s box jump at 30 in × 34, 24 in × 42 or 20 in × 50; men’s deadlift at 225 lb × 45, 185 lb × 55 or 135 lb × 75. Box jumps and stepovers offer three heights.
That is the real difference from HYROX. The 26/27 singles rulebook fixes 100 wall balls at 4 kg (Women Open), 6 kg (Men Open / Women Pro) or 9 kg (Men Pro), to a 2.70 m or 3.00 m target, and the doubles rulebook fixes the 50 m sled push at 102, 152 or 202 kg including sled. The only load choice a HYROX athlete makes is which division to enter — see HYROX Open vs Pro. At LT Games the choice is yours at every applicable station, and the FAQ confirms athletes load and select their own weights, with staff resetting the station afterwards for the next competitor. Loading time runs on your clock.
The stations, as published
Life Time publishes its loads in pounds and inches; I have left them as written.
| # | Station | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Treadmill run | 1,000 m | 1,000 m |
| 2 | Barbell deadlift | 10,000 lb | 7,500 lb |
| 3 | Row | 1,000 m | 750 m |
| 4 | Wall balls | 1,000 lb | 750 lb |
| 5 | Ski erg | 1,000 m | 750 m |
| 6 | Box jump over | 1,000 in | 750 in |
| 7 | Treadmill run | 600 m | 600 m |
| 8 | Barbell shoulder to overhead | 6,000 lb | 4,500 lb |
| 9 | Row | 600 m | 450 m |
| 10 | Dead ball box stepover | 600 in | 450 in |
| 11 | Ski erg | 600 m | 450 m |
| 12 | Burpee box jump over | 600 in | 450 in |
| 13 | Treadmill run | 400 m | 400 m |
| 14 | Dumbbell ground to overhead | 4,000 lb | 3,000 lb |
| 15 | Row | 400 m | 300 m |
Two caveats on that table. Stations 2, 4, 6, 12 and 14 are published on the current event site; the rest come from Life Time’s own article written around the April 2026 Minneapolis edition, so verify any single figure against the movement standards PDF before you plan around it. And I could not source stations 16 and 17 from an official page, so they are not in the table. Third-party coverage has reported 700 in for the women’s box jump over; the organiser’s own page says 750 in, which is the figure I have used.
The cardio stations are treadmills, rowers and SkiErgs — heavily machine-weighted, with three separate blocks of each descending in distance. If you are coming from HYROX the erg work will feel familiar; our SkiErg technique and rowing technique pieces apply unchanged.
Judging and movement standards
Life Time publishes a full movement standards PDF covering all seventeen stations, with the movement standard, the movement options where applicable, the movement faults and the penalty for violating each standard. The penalty ladder is graduated rather than purely time-based: the example I read, on safe descent of the dumbbells, gives a “No Rep” plus a judge’s warning for a first violation.
The staffing model is the other big departure. Per the FAQ, every athlete is assigned their own dedicated judge who follows them through all stations, verifying movement standards and timing, with four athletes on the floor at a time. HYROX puts judges at stations instead, and the standards that catch people out there are a known, well-documented list. At LT Games the judge is checking both movement quality and accumulated load, because you chose the load.
Schedule
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 4:00–7:00 PM | Open competition, four athletes every 20 minutes |
| Sat 3 Oct, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM | Open competition, four athletes every 20 minutes |
| Sat 3 Oct, 3:00–5:00 PM | Highlighted Athlete Competition, four athletes every 15 minutes |
| Sat 3 Oct, 6:00 PM | Athlete award ceremony |
All from the FAQ; “Highlighted Athlete” is Life Time’s own wording. Results and the leaderboard are published at ltgames.lifetime.life after each heat block concludes — no third-party results platform is named.
Prize money, and an arithmetic wrinkle
The FAQ gives a US$25,000 total pool paid US$7,500 for first, US$3,500 for second and US$2,500 for third, awarded to fastest overall times. Note that if those three payouts are per gender they come to US$27,000, so the headline figure and the per-place breakdown do not reconcile on the page as written. Life Time’s December 2025 release describes the US$25,000 as spanning the top three in both male and female categories. I could not resolve the discrepancy from an official page.
Divisions: what is not there
The only division split I can source officially is male and female — the December 2025 release describes prize money across the top three in both categories, and every published station load is given as a men’s and a women’s figure. The only eligibility rule in the FAQ is being 18 or older.
On doubles, teams and age groups, be careful what you read. Life Time publishes no doubles, team or age-group category for Dallas, and the FAQ simply does not mention them. The only statement that LT Games has no doubles, no age-group brackets and no scaled or half-format versions is second-hand reporting from December 2025 about the April Minneapolis edition, so I am not going to present it as a standing rule. If you want brackets, that is a point for HYROX or DEKA.
Why Dallas, and where this sits
Life Time frames the Dallas expansion as anchored by the opening of its second dedicated HYBRID XT studio at the Frisco club, HYBRID XT being its coach-led group training format; the first opened in 2025 at Life Time Target Center in Minneapolis. That is also where the inaugural LT Games ran, on 25–26 October 2025, with the second edition a single day on 25 April 2026.
So three editions in, a field of roughly 130, no qualifying path and a US$25,000 purse. It is a small, self-loaded time trial rather than a mass-participation series, and that is the honest way to compare it with the alternatives — see our rundown of the other hybrid race series and the LT Games entry on our races page.