Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 86 stores from 68 gym chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Vent Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best Fitness and YMCA.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
68
Tracked stores
86
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gym chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Vent Fitness and Best Fitness sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Vent Fitness - +0.5%
2 Best Fitness ▲1 -12.5%
3 YMCA - -46.2%
4 Planet Fitness ▼1 -58.1%
  • Vent Fitness
  • Metabolic Meltdown
  • ABC Sports & Fitness
  • Rensselaer Outing Club
  • Best Fitness
  • Impact Athletic Center
  • SPORTIME Schenectady
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

86 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 22 of the 86 stores (26%); 62 of the 68 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, against 6% across New York.

  • Vent Fitness (4)
  • Metabolic Meltdown (1)
  • ABC Sports & Fitness (1)
  • Rensselaer Outing Club (1)
  • Best Fitness (3)
  • Impact Athletic Center (1)
  • SPORTIME Schenectady (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Planet Fitness 10
  • 2 Vent Fitness 4
  • 3 YMCA 3
  • 4 Best Fitness 3
  • 5 Equinox 2
  • 6 Retro Fitness 2
  • 7 CrossFit Beyond 1
  • 8 The Boardroom & Lounge 1
  • 9 The Y 1
  • 10 4 Pillar Fitness 1
  • 11 Anytime Fitness 1
  • 12 I Grind 365 1
  • 13 Urban Fitness 1
  • 14 Wellness Center At Sunnyview 1
  • 15 Schenectady Ring of Hope Boxing Club 1
  • 16 Fiternity Gym 1
  • 17 Judy Torel Coaching & Training 1
  • 18 Top Form 1
  • 19 Metabolic Meltdown 1
  • 20 Saratoga Health & Wellness 1
  • 21 Healthy Living Center 1
  • 22 Community Care Workout 1
  • 23 City Of Albany Professional Shop 1
  • 24 Baseball Health & Performance Institute 1
  • 25 Max Level Fitness & Athletics 1
  • 26 Ultron Gym 1
  • 27 Underground Athletics 1
  • 28 Point of Woods 1
  • 29 Ballston Spa Jr. Baseball 1
  • 30 Custom Fitness 1
  • 31 Warriors Gym 1
  • 32 Cartwheels Gymnastics Center 1
  • 33 HLM Fitness 1
  • 34 Dr. Sola Togun-Butler 1
  • 35 Jazzercise Fitness Center 1
  • 36 Ideal Fitness 1
  • 37 Battleground Fitness 1
  • 38 ABC Sports & Fitness 1
  • 39 Rensselaer Outing Club 1
  • 40 Impact Athletic Center 1
  • 41 SPORTIME Schenectady 1
  • 42 InFerno 1
  • 43 Crunch Fitness 1
  • 44 PWR Performance Wellness Recovery 1
  • 45 Her Strength 1
  • 46 Central Rock Gym 1
  • 47 The Edge Halfmoon 1
  • 48 Fitness Artist 1
  • 49 Capital District Sport and Fitness 1
  • 50 Girl Fight Fitness 1

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