Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 268 stores from 161 gym chains in Maryland. Planet Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Gold's Gym and Brick Bodies.

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
161
Tracked stores
268
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. Planet Fitness and Gold's Gym sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Planet Fitness - +14.9%
2 Gold's Gym ▲2 +12.5%
3 Brick Bodies ▲1 +7.7%
4 Powerhouse Gym ▲1 +7.0%
5 Anytime Fitness ▲1 -7.3%
6 YMCA ▼1 -30.0%
7 Onelife Fitness ▼1 -45.2%
8 LA Fitness ▼3 -99.8%
  • Gold's Gym
  • YMCA
  • Crunch Fitness
  • Onelife Fitness
  • Elite Technique
  • Merritt Clubs
  • Life Time
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

268 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 87 of the 268 stores (32%); 144 of the 161 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, against 4% across the United States.

  • Gold's Gym (13)
  • YMCA (12)
  • Crunch Fitness (6)
  • Onelife Fitness (9)
  • Elite Technique (2)
  • Merritt Clubs (3)
  • Life Time (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Planet Fitness 44
  • 2 Gold's Gym 13
  • 3 YMCA 12
  • 4 Onelife Fitness 9
  • 5 Anytime Fitness 9
  • 6 Crunch Fitness 6
  • 7 LA Fitness 6
  • 8 Life Time 4
  • 9 Merritt Clubs 3
  • 10 Brick Bodies 3
  • 11 Powerhouse Gym 3
  • 12 Wonderfly Arena 2
  • 13 My Gym Children's Fitness Center 2
  • 14 World Gym 2
  • 15 Snap Fitness 2
  • 16 Merritt Athletic Clubs 2
  • 17 Elite Technique 2
  • 18 City Fit 1
  • 19 Building 17 1
  • 20 No Limit Fitness and Sports Performance 1
  • 21 Columbia Gym 1
  • 22 The Aspen Hill Club 1
  • 23 Titan Fitness 1
  • 24 Redline Athletics 1
  • 25 Sport & Health 1
  • 26 She Fit Lifestyle Fitness Studio 1
  • 27 eQuillibrium Fitness 1
  • 28 Park Heights Jcc 1
  • 29 Loyola University Maryland Fitness and Aquatic Center 1
  • 30 Jump Climb Extreme 1
  • 31 Chesapeake Health and Fitness Club 1
  • 32 The Edge Training Academy 1
  • 33 Good News Fitness 1
  • 34 Crofton Bootcamp & Personal Training 1
  • 35 Team Randori Martial Arts 1
  • 36 Central Maryland YMCA 1
  • 37 Arenal Fitness 1
  • 38 Results Health & Fitness Club 1
  • 39 Brenda's Body Shop 1
  • 40 Level 5 Athletics 1
  • 41 Perfect Fit 1
  • 42 Train For Greatness MD 1
  • 43 Harford Sports Performance Center 1
  • 44 Dance Unlimited 1
  • 45 Brickhouse Cardio Club 1
  • 46 Barnes Corner Fitness & CrossFit 1
  • 47 The Yard Gym 1
  • 48 Level Fitness 1
  • 49 MV Fitness 1
  • 50 GBMC at Texas Station 1

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