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2026 Best Gym to Train for HYROX

Arena Fitness & Performance

Arena Fitness & Performance was founded by Chris Beck — a longtime personal trainer and HYROX world champ qualifier — and is the second HYROX affiliate gym in North America. Here, you’ll tackle workouts such as pushing and pulling power sleds and throwing a weighted ball nine feet in the air — all things you’ll do during different portions of the competition — under the watchful eye of skilled trainers. The group classes, focused on agility, strength, and cardio, will kick your ass but help you power through the finish line. Read More »

2001 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA Website

2025 Best Place to Get Strong

G-Strength

All are welcome at Giancarlo Regni’s five gyms, where you’ll follow a whole-body training plan that fits your level — while being guided to keep making gains. It’s all the benefits of having a personal trainer without the hefty price tag and all the fun of working out with a group but not as a group. Read More »

Multiple locations Website

2024 Best Glow-Up

The Sporting Club at the Bellevue

After 31 years, the Sporting Club shuttered due to the pandemic. But there was a silver lining: The Center City icon finally had time to transform, reopening this past November as a totally swagged-out health-and-fitness mecca. Its modern makeover boasts 100,000 square feet of workout, lounge and event space and is guaranteed to keep you busy, with pickleball, basketball and squash courts; a luxe pool; eight exercise studios with sleek equipment; golf simulators; a cafe and juice bar; and much, much more. Read More »

224 South Broad Street, 8th floor, Philadelphia, PA | 215-985-9876 | Website

2023 Best All-In-One Gym

Vision Plus Fitness

You’ll find everything at Charles Knowles’s Conshy gym: a robust schedule of group cardio, circuit and resistance training; results-driven trainers who’ll kick your ass but leave you smiling; one-on-one coaching; an open gym for solo lifting or treadmill running; a new active-recovery space with hot yoga and mobility; and a community that’ll uplift you, whether it’s a 5 a.m. or post-work sweat sesh. Read More »

701 East Elm Street, Conshohocken, PA Website

2022 Best New Strength-Training Gym

Control Lab

This small but mighty strength and conditioning gym offers personal training and circuit-style small-group seshes that move you through equipment like battle ropes, rowers, ski ergs, slam balls and kettlebells. Founder and head trainer Victor Spaulding will activate muscles you didn’t know existed — and that good burn will last for days. Read More »

1624 South Street, Philadelphia, PA Website

2020 Best Inclusive Gym

EveryBody Movement & Wellness

Before the pandemic, Julia Naftulin’s spot in West Philly provided therapy, massage, body-positive joyful movement exercise classes, Pilates, functional training, queer yoga and more. After? She took the entire gym online and made every class donation-based, so people of all financial situations could participate. Read More »

4305 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA | 267-969-5019 | Website

2019 Best Way to Beat Gymtimidation

Train & Nourish

Personal trainer Jenna Fisher’s bright, clean studio is designed to make her all-female private and small-group clients feel right at home. (The entryway literally looks like somebody’s living room.) And then of course there’s Fisher herself — the chill cheerleader every strong woman needs in her life. Read More »

1621 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Website

2019 Best Two-for-One Training Deal

Leverage Fitness

Want to work out at this sleek Rittenhouse studio but can’t swing $125 an hour for the private training sessions? Opt for “semi-private” training at $65 a pop. You’ll still get plenty of personal attention — trainers are paired with no more than four clients at a time — plus you’ll get access to the gym’s high-intensity conditioning classes, which are complimentary for all members. Read More »

1530 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA | 267-455-9660 | Website

2019 Best New Gym

EverybodyFights

Don’t be fooled by the name. With four boutique studios (boxing, running, circuit training and yoga) and general gym equipment, this is so much more than a boxing gym — and really, the only membership you need. Read More »

1900 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA | 215-278-2912 | Website

2019 Best Gym With a View

City Fitness East Market

Working out while gazing upon the hubbub of Market Street through an entire wall of 30-foot windows? We just might stay for hours. Read More »

11 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA | 267-541-2427 | Website