Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in the United States

Iceflower tracks 14,583 stores from 7,302 gym chains in the United States. Smash Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Express Fitness and Powerhouse Gym.

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
7,302
Tracked stores
14,583
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. Smash Fitness and Express Fitness sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Smash Fitness ▲3 +17.7%
2 E Express Fitness ▲4 +17.5%
3 P Powerhouse Gym logo Powerhouse Gym ▲2 +16.3%
4 C Club 24 Concept Gyms ▲6 +14.4%
5 R Redline Athletics logo Redline Athletics ▲6 +9.9%
6 A APEX ▲3 +8.8%
7 T The Gym ▲4 +8.6%
8 M Merritt Clubs logo Merritt Clubs ▲7 +8.2%
9 T The St. James ▲7 +7.6%
10 C CLUB4 logo CLUB4 ▲2 +5.5%
11 L Las Vegas Athletic Club logo Las Vegas Athletic Club - +0.9%
12 A Anytime Fitness logo Anytime Fitness ▲2 +0.3%
13 M Mountainside Fitness logo Mountainside Fitness ▲2 -0.6%
14 B Bouldering Project logo Bouldering Project ▼2 -0.7%
15 B Brick Bodies logo Brick Bodies ▼2 -1.2%
  • YMCA
  • Crunch Fitness
  • Planet Fitness
  • Equinox
  • Life Time
  • EōS Fitness
  • Gold's Gym
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

14,583 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • YMCA (701)
  • Crunch Fitness (431)
  • Planet Fitness (2,202)
  • Equinox (98)
  • Life Time (171)
  • EōS Fitness (98)
  • Gold's Gym (200)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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