Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in the United States

Iceflower tracks 14,477 stores from 7,246 gym chains in the United States. Vent Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Midtown Athletic Club and Smash Fitness.

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
7,246
Tracked stores
14,477
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 Midtown Athletic Club sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Vent Fitness ▲5 +19.4%
2 Midtown Athletic Club ▲4 +18.8%
3 Smash Fitness ▲6 +17.3%
4 Bay Club ▲5 +16.9%
5 Express Fitness ▲3 +16.4%
6 Defined Fitness ▲11 +16.0%
7 Powerhouse Gym ▲1 +15.1%
8 Next Level Fitness ▲8 +9.1%
9 Steamworks ▲9 +8.9%
10 Merritt Clubs ▲10 +8.3%
11 Big Sky ▼1 +6.9%
12 CLUB4 ▲4 +6.8%
13 Cooperstown Dreams Park ▲3 +6.5%
14 Olympus Gym ▲5 +6.4%
15 Best Fitness ▲8 +5.1%
  • YMCA
  • Crunch Fitness
  • Quantico Gym
  • Planet Fitness
  • Equinox
  • Life Time
  • EōS Fitness
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

14,477 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 4,087 of the 14,477 stores (28%); 6,649 of the 7,246 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • YMCA (687)
  • Crunch Fitness (438)
  • Quantico Gym (1)
  • Planet Fitness (2,167)
  • Equinox (99)
  • Life Time (175)
  • EōS Fitness (102)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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