Gym list in India: gyms database for suppliers, by city

Who sells to gyms and who decides, how many gyms Starleads' data holds in each city, why 5% GST without ITC changed equipment buying, and how to reach gym owners lawfully.

By Kavita Khatri · Published 15 November 2026 · 17 min read

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The quick answer

A gym list is a contact list of gyms, health clubs, fitness studios and yoga centres: business name, owner or manager, mobile number, email and address, sorted by city. It is used by the businesses that sell to gyms: equipment dealers, supplement brands, gym software firms, flooring and interior contractors, insurers and trainers' academies. There is no official census of gyms in India. Starleads' gym database has 13,302 gyms and fitness centres across 26 states and 75 cities (as checked on 15 November 2026), 91% of them with a mobile number, and the biggest city lists are Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.

This guide is for people who want to sell to gyms, not for people looking for a gym to join. It covers who buys from gyms and who decides, how many gyms Starleads' data holds in each city, the 2025 GST change that altered how gyms look at equipment prices, the FSSAI rules that apply when a gym sells supplements, a step-by-step way to turn a gym list into meetings, and the TRAI rules for calling and messaging gym owners.

Who sells to gyms, and who decides at the gym

Gyms look like a single market, but they buy very different things on very different cycles. A treadmill is bought once every few years and the owner decides; protein and pre-workout are bought every month and the floor manager or head trainer often chooses the brand. Before you buy any gym list, be clear which of these you are:

What you sell	Who usually decides	How often a gym buys	What the gym asks first
Commercial equipment (treadmills, strength machines, racks, dumbbells)	Owner or partners; the franchise head office for chain outlets	At opening, at an upgrade, or when a machine wears out	Price, warranty, service visits in their city, delivery and installation time
Spares and servicing (belts, cables, motor repair, AMC)	Manager or owner	Every few months	Response time when a machine breaks down
Supplements and drinks (whey, protein bars, electrolytes)	Owner, often with the head trainer	Monthly stock	Margin, credit period, whether the product is FSSAI-compliant
Gym management software (memberships, attendance, payments, WhatsApp reminders)	Owner	Once, then a yearly renewal	Monthly cost, biometric or QR check-in, UPI collection, data export
Flooring, mirrors, lighting, interiors	Owner	At opening or a refit	Past sites they can visit, timeline
Apparel and merchandise (staff T-shirts, branded towels, bottles)	Manager	A few times a year	Minimum order, printing, delivery
Insurance, loans and payments (shop insurance, equipment finance, POS)	Owner	Yearly, or at opening	Premium, EMI, paperwork
Training and certification for trainers	Owner or head trainer	When hiring	Recognition of the certificate, batch dates

Two things follow from this. First, the owner is the buyer for almost everything except daily consumables, so a list with the owner's or manager's name and mobile is worth more than a list of front-desk landlines. Second, timing matters more than volume: an equipment dealer wants gyms that are about to open or refit, while a supplement brand wants every gym in a radius it can deliver to every month.

How many gyms there are: what Starleads' data shows

India has no single register of gyms. A gym registers under the state shop and establishment law (see our guide to shop act registration), takes GST registration if its turnover requires it, and may need local licences depending on the city, but none of these registers is published as a searchable list of gyms. So every "number of gyms in India" you read is an estimate or a count from somebody's database. The figures below are counts of contacts in Starleads' data, not an official census.

Our Gyms & Fitness Centres list has 13,302 businesses in 75 cities, 91% with a mobile number and 42% with an email address. Most are in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.

When we checked the list pages on 15 November 2026, the all-India file held 13,302 rows: 91% with a mobile number, 42% with an email address, 29% with a landline, 7% with a website, 98% with a street address and 33% with the contact person's name. Maharashtra had 4,783 of them, Delhi 2,354 and Karnataka 1,408, so the three biggest states hold 64% of the list. These are the city lists we saw:

City	Gyms and fitness centres	With mobile	With email	With contact name	Localities with the most rows
Mumbai	3,338	91%	32%	57%	Andheri West (201), Malad West (93), Andheri East (83)
Delhi	2,354	91%	48%	24%	Not split by locality on the page
Bengaluru	1,307	99%	39%	33%	Koramangala (33), JP Nagar (22), Marathahalli (22)
Pune	1,106	87%	38%	28%	Hadapsar (58) leads
Hyderabad	704	85%	52%	22%	Banjara Hills leads
Chennai	697	75%	50%	Not given	Porur (15), Velacheri (14), Anna Nagar (13)

Three honest notes on reading this table. Mumbai alone holds 70% of Maharashtra's rows, and Bengaluru 93% of Karnataka's, so outside the metros our gym coverage is thin; if you sell in tier-2 towns, check the free sample for your district before you pay. Chennai's list has the lowest mobile share (75%), so plan for more landline calls there. And contact names are missing for most rows outside Mumbai, so your first call will often be to the front desk.

Gym lists by city, live

What is inside a gym database, and what is not

By category, the all-India list's biggest groups are gymnasiums and health clubs (4,558 rows), yoga training centres (478) and gymnasium equipment businesses (459). Mumbai's biggest groups are gymnasiums and health clubs (840), yoga centres (253) and fitness trainers and consultants (199). In other words, the list is the fitness trade in a city, not only gyms with a weights floor. That is useful or noisy depending on what you sell:

An equipment dealer can treat the 459 equipment rows as competitors to study, or as potential sub-dealers in towns where it has no presence. A supplement brand can sell to them too, since many equipment shops also stock supplements.
A gym software firm will want to keep yoga and dance studios, because they run memberships and batches in the same way.
A flooring or interiors contractor will usually drop personal trainers who have no premises.

The free sample of 60 rows shows the mix you will get. In the sample we looked at, most rows were gyms and yoga centres, at least one was a franchise outlet of a national chain, one was an equipment maker, and at least one row was a business outside fitness, a travel firm. That is normal for a list built from business listings, and it is the reason to filter by the category column before you start calling.

What a gym list does not contain, and should never contain, is the gym's members. Members are private individuals, and Starleads doesn't sell member lists of gyms or any other list of private consumers. If a seller offers you "gym members' mobile numbers", it is offering personal data that the members never agreed to share with you, and both buying and using it carry legal risk under the DPDP Act (see our guide to the DPDP Act for B2B sales).

If your product also suits studios, spas or physiotherapy clinics, these lists cover the rest of the trade.

For reference, the related all-India files we checked today: 4,170 yoga centres and trainers (90% with a mobile number), 3,440 spas and wellness centres (91% with a mobile number, but only 19% with an email address) and 5,500 physiotherapy clinics. The beauty, wellness and fitness file puts 1,23,549 salons, gyms, spas, yoga centres and cosmetics sellers in one sheet, which suits a brand that sells to all of them. Salons are covered in our beauty parlour and salon list guide.

The 2025 GST change: why gyms now look harder at equipment prices

If you sell to gyms, this is the change of the last year that matters most, and almost none of the pages that rank for "gym list" mention it. The GST Council's 56th meeting cut the rate on gym services. The Ministry of Finance's FAQs on the decisions of the 56th GST Council (PDF), which we read on 15 November 2026, say in answer 72: "Beauty and physical well-being services including services of health clubs, salons, barbers, fitness centers, yoga, etc. will attract GST rate of 5% without ITC. These services attracted 18% GST earlier." Answer 1 says the new service rates apply from 22 September 2025.

The words "without ITC" are the part a seller should understand. Input tax credit is the GST a business pays on its purchases, which a regular GST-registered business can set off against the GST it collects. At 18% with credit, a gym could recover the GST on a new treadmill. At 5% without credit, it cannot, so the GST on equipment, software, interiors and services becomes part of the gym's cost. How a gym treats credit it already held on 22 September 2025 is a question for its accountant; for a seller, what matters is that new purchases no longer come with recoverable GST.

Here is what that means on one purchase. The figures are an illustration: the right GST rate for a given machine depends on its HSN classification, which the supplier's accountant must confirm.

	Before 22 Sep 2025 (gym at 18% with ITC)	From 22 Sep 2025 (gym at 5% without ITC)
Equipment price before GST	₹4,00,000	₹4,00,000
GST on the invoice, if the item is taxed at 18%	₹72,000	₹72,000
GST the gym can set off as credit	₹72,000	₹0
Real cost to the gym	₹4,00,000	₹4,72,000
What the gym now compares	Price before tax	Price including tax

So quote GST-inclusive totals to gyms, show the effect of any rate change on your own products, and expect more questions about payment terms and equipment finance. The government's explainer "GST Reforms for a New Generation" (PIB, 20 September 2025, PDF) also says "GST on toys and sports goods cut from 12% to 5%", so check with your accountant whether any of the fitness goods you sell moved with it. The same document presents the gym rate cut as making memberships more affordable and links it to the Fit India Movement; for a seller, more members means more gyms expanding, which is the buying signal an equipment dealer looks for.

Selling supplements to gyms: what FSSAI says

Many gyms sell protein and other supplements at the counter, and supplement brands are some of the most active buyers of gym lists. Both sides need to know where these products sit in food law. FSSAI's FAQs on the Nutraceutical Regulations (dated 6 October 2021, PDF), which we read on 15 November 2026, say:

Any business that makes, imports or sells these products must comply with the regulations (answer 1). A gym that sells packaged supplements is a food business for that purpose. Our FSSAI licence check guide explains which registration a food seller needs and how to check a supplier's licence number.
Health supplements include "protein supplements intended for general population" (answer 40).
Gym supplements and products for sportspersons fall under Food for Special Dietary Use (FSDU) and "shall only be used under medical advice or dietetic supervision" (answer 46). The FAQ points to a separate FSSAI guidance note on food for sportspersons.
Substances on the World Anti-Doping Agency's prohibited list must not be used in these products (answer 47).
Vitamins, minerals, proteins and amino acids added to health supplements should not exceed the recommended daily allowance set by ICMR (answers 19 and 20).

For a brand pitching gyms, this is a selling point, not a footnote: show your FSSAI licence number on the first message, keep the label claims within what the regulations allow, and give the gym a short note on how the product should be recommended. Gym owners have become cautious about stocking products they cannot vouch for, and a brand that answers the compliance question before it is asked gets the shelf space.

How to turn a gym list into meetings: step by step

Decide your radius. Equipment needs installation and service visits, and supplements need monthly delivery. Start with the city or the part of a city where you can actually serve a gym within a day. The locality counts above (201 rows in Andheri West, 58 in Hadapsar) tell you where a field visit covers the most gyms.
Download the free sample first. Every Starleads list page has 60 real rows as an Excel file or PDF. Check the categories, how many rows have a contact name, and whether the gyms you already know are in it. If your city's sample looks thin, don't buy.
Buy the narrowest file that fits. A city or state list costs ₹499 and the all-India file ₹1,999, plus 18% GST. A dealer covering one metro needs the city list, not the all-India file. If you need gyms in two cities plus yoga centres, the list builder puts them in one sheet.
Clean the sheet for your product. Filter the category column: keep gymnasiums and health clubs for equipment, add yoga and fitness studios for software, and move equipment dealers to a separate tab. Mark franchise outlets of national chains separately, because they often buy through a head office.
Check DND before any promotional call or SMS (rules below), and remove numbers whose owners have opted out.
Call between the rush hours. Gyms are busiest early in the morning and in the evening, when the owner is on the floor. Late morning and early afternoon are usually when an owner or manager has time to talk. Ask for the owner by name where the list gives one.
Lead with something the gym can check. For equipment: a site in their area they can visit, a service response time, a GST-inclusive quote. For software: a free trial and data export. For supplements: margin, credit period and the FSSAI licence number.
Visit the warm ones. Gym owners buy machines they have touched. Plan field visits by locality for the gyms that showed interest on the phone.
Follow up on a schedule and log everything. Most gyms will not buy on the first call, but they will remember a supplier who sent the quote they asked for and followed up two weeks later. Our 7-day calling plan and cold calling tips give you a working rhythm and scripts.

A first call that works sounds like this: "Good afternoon, am I speaking with Mr Sharma, the owner of Fit Zone? I'm calling from a commercial gym equipment dealer in Pune. We service treadmills and strength machines in Hadapsar and Kharadi, and we can usually reach a breakdown within a day. Do you have any machines that are due for servicing, or are you planning to add equipment this year?" It names the person, the area, a checkable promise and one easy question.

Calling, SMS, email and WhatsApp: the rules for reaching gyms

A gym owner's mobile number is often their personal number, so the telecom rules on commercial communication apply to your calls and messages just as they would to a consumer's. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's rules are the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 (TCCCPR).

DND (the National Customer Preference Register). TRAI's preference registration page says anyone can block commercial communication by category, including "Health" and "Consumer goods and automobiles", by mode (voice calls, SMS, auto-dialler and robo calls), by time band and by day of the week, through SMS or a call to 1909, an app or a web portal. Check a number before a promotional call; our DND check guide shows how.
Bulk SMS needs DLT registration. TRAI's advice to senders lists what every sender of bulk messages must do: register as a principal entity, get a header (up to 11 characters), register content templates, and, for commercial messages, register a consent template and get the recipient's consent. Our DLT registration guide walks through the steps.
WhatsApp has its own opt-in rules for business messages. See our WhatsApp marketing guide.
Email has no DND register in India, but Gmail and Yahoo filter senders who do not authenticate their domain or who get spam complaints. Send small batches from a warmed-up domain, include a one-click unsubscribe, and honour every opt-out.

The simplest safe pattern for gyms: a personal call (DND-checked) or a one-to-one email to introduce yourself, and bulk SMS or WhatsApp only to gyms that have agreed to hear from you.

Free ways to find gyms, and where each falls short

The pages that rank for "gym list" today are local directory listings: a city's gyms with ratings and membership fees, written for people choosing a gym. They are useful for a seller too, but only one city or locality at a time.

Source	What you get	Where it falls short for a seller
Google Maps and local search	Gyms near a point, with ratings, photos and opening hours	One search at a time, no owner names, no export; copying it at scale breaks Google's terms (see our guide to scrapers and their risks)
Local directory websites	Listings by locality, often with a phone number	Numbers are often routed through the directory; written for members, not suppliers
Franchise brands' websites	Outlet addresses for one chain	Only that chain; buying decisions often sit with the head office
Fitness trade shows	Gym owners in person, ready to talk about equipment	Only a few days a year, and only where one is held
Your own field visits	The best conversations	Slow without a list to plan the route
A ready-made gym list	Every gym in a city in one Excel sheet, with mobiles and emails for most	Some rows are not gyms, contact names are often missing, and no list is complete; check the sample

Most sellers use two or three of these together: the list to see the whole market and plan routes, local search to check a gym is still open before a visit, and trade shows for the bigger deals. Our guide to finding B2B clients and sales leads covers how to combine sources.

Questions people ask

How many gyms are there in India?

There is no official count, because gyms are registered under state shop laws and GST rather than a gym register. Starleads' data has 13,302 gyms and fitness centres across 26 states and 75 cities, as checked on 15 November 2026. That is a count of contacts in our data, not a census, and the real number is higher, especially in smaller towns where our coverage is thin.

Is there a free gym list PDF?

Yes, a partial one. Every Starleads gym list page offers 60 real rows free, as an Excel sample or a PDF, with phone numbers and emails partly masked. The full list comes as an Excel workbook.

What is a gym centre called?

In business listings, gyms appear under several names: gymnasium, health club, fitness centre, fitness studio, CrossFit or functional training box, and yoga or Zumba studio. A good gym list includes all of them, and you filter by category for your product.

Can I get the phone numbers of gym members?

No. Members are private individuals, and Starleads doesn't sell lists of them. A gym list covers the businesses and the people who run them, which is what a supplier needs.

What GST does a gym charge now?

According to the Ministry of Finance's FAQ on the 56th GST Council, services of health clubs, fitness centres and yoga attract 5% GST without input tax credit from 22 September 2025, down from 18%. Because the gym can no longer claim credit, the GST on equipment it buys becomes a cost.

Does a gym need an FSSAI licence to sell protein supplements?

FSSAI's FAQ says any business that sells health supplements, nutraceuticals or foods for special dietary use must comply with the regulations, so a gym selling packaged supplements falls under food law. Which registration it needs depends on its turnover; our FSSAI guide explains the limits.

Which city has the most gyms in Starleads' data?

Mumbai, with 3,338 gyms and fitness centres, followed by Delhi (2,341 in the city), Bengaluru (1,307), Pune (1,106) and Hyderabad (704).

Can I buy gyms for just one city?

Yes. City and state lists cost ₹499 each and the all-India file ₹1,999, plus 18% GST. Check the 60-row sample for your city before you pay.