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CrossFit Mayhem - what's actually working, and what isn't

Fitness · 31-min uploads · 336K subscribers · started 2013 · ~3.4/week
Est. ad revenue$530–$2K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 176 most recent of 2K long-form uploads. One of the fitness YouTube channels we track. Visit CrossFit Mayhem on YouTube →

In CrossFit Mayhem's own words
Faith. Family. Fitness. Service. Home of Rich Froning, 4-time Fittest Man on Earth and 6x CrossFit Games Team Champion.Based in US

CrossFit Mayhem's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 31% of all views and its biggest is 8.1× the median, so the median upload (24K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

24K
median views
8.1×
top vs median
24%
hit rate (2×+)
31%
views from top 10%

What is CrossFit Mayhem's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Event 1 // Phifer 5k Women's FULL BROADCAST" at 194K views - 8.1× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Event 1 // Phifer 5k Women's FULL BROADCAST194K
Rich Froning FULL 25.3 CrossFit Open Workout161K
Rich Froning FULL 25.2 CrossFit Open Workout159K

Which titles work best for CrossFit Mayhem - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
Event 1 // Phifer 5k Women's FULL BROADCAST194K
Rich Froning FULL 25.3 CrossFit Open Workout161K
Rich Froning FULL 25.2 CrossFit Open Workout159K
Rich Froning FULL 26.1 CrossFit Open Workout132K
Games Training | Train With Rich 33111K
Haley Adams: Podium Threat | CrossFit Games Training107K
Men's Event 1 // Phifer Mountain 5k FULL BROADCAST102K
Rich Froning FULL 26.3 CrossFit Open Workout100K
Semifinals With Mayhem Athlete // Adams, Parker, Fernandez, Rozema, Vragovic99K
Rich Froning & Dan Bailey Defend Their Title93K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Austin Hatfield Does A Full CrossFit Workout13K
Leadville 100 BTS with Rich Froning13K
Our Master Plan Revealed // The Rich Froning Podcast 06712K
Calm Before The Storm | BTS Syndicate Crown11K
Rich Froning Vs. 20:00 of Barbell Cycling11K
New Years Challenge | Mayhem 4.40 Workout 111K
Rich Froning Full CrossFit Semifinals Workout 1 (Kinda)10K
Paige Rodgers Mock Quarterfinals Workout // Mic'd up w/Rich Froning10K
New Year, More Mayhem // The Rich Froning Podcast 06810K
FULL FRIDAY WORKOUT | Paige Powers & Jorge Fernandez10K

The words that win for CrossFit Mayhem

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: open games.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 176 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - CrossFit Mayhem
An ALL-CAPS word45% of videos
+48%
Asks a question8% of videos
+17%
The title formula for CrossFit Mayhem

Lean on an all-caps word and asks a question - they lift views the most on this channel.

What keywords does CrossFit Mayhem rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: rich froning, froning podcast, froning open, open workout, open tips, tips tricks, tricks rich, games training. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does CrossFit Mayhem post, and when?

CrossFit Mayhem publishes about 3.4 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
15
Mon
8
Tue
18
Wed
7
Thu
21
Fri
7
Sat
100

How long are CrossFit Mayhem's videos?

Typical uploads run about 31 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (27K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
27K
20 min+
24K
5-10 min
19K

How does CrossFit Mayhem compare to other fitness channels?

At 24K median views, CrossFit Mayhem runs above the typical fitness channel we track (17K). It is outperforming its niche.

What is CrossFit Mayhem's net worth and estimated earnings?

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, CrossFit Mayhem pulls roughly 351K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $351-$1,404 a month in ad revenue (about $4,211-$16,842 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like CrossFit Mayhem make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Sat, and build titles around its proven words (open, games). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 24K views.

CrossFit Mayhem stats at a glance

Subscribers336K
Total views87M
Videos published2K
Avg views (of 176 analyzed)34K
Engagement rate8.3%
Uploads per week3.4
Typical length31 min
On YouTube since2013 (13 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for CrossFit Mayhem, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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