Spotify summarizes your entire year in playlists—so why can’t SELF do the same with wellness? Consider this your Wellness Wrapped: a look back at the workouts, daily habits, recovery rituals, and moments that shaped how we moved and took care of ourselves in 2025. From viral fitness races to the rise of low-impact everything, here’s what defined the year—and what it says about where we’re headed.
Your top workouts of the year
When it comes to spotting fitness trends, ClassPass has a front-row seat. With more than 40 million reservations booked globally this year, the platform’s 2025 Look Back Report data offers a clear picture of what workouts people actually showed up for.
Here were the top 10 workouts of 2025:
- Pilates
- Yoga
- Strength training
- Cycling
- Barre
- Gym time
- Boxing
- Dance
- Low-impact training
- Running
For the third year in a row, Pilates was the most-booked workout worldwide. The appeal is clear: a low-impact burn while building strength in muscles you probably didn’t know existed.
Yoga, strength training, and cycling also held strong as 2025 favorites, showing that people are committed to these tried-and-true foundations. But the rise of “less traditional” workouts (i.e., slow burn sculpt, hybrid endurance training, and mobility-focused classes), make this the year exercisers worked out smarter, not harder. Across platforms, we saw the same trend: Tonal’s 2025 State of Strength Report showed a major shift toward shorter, high-quality, personalized sessions designed to support long-term health over all-out grind. When it comes to movement, efficiency is in.
When you’re most likely to move (and when you’re not)
ClassPass data also revealed surprising patterns in when people prefer to sweat.
- Most active month: March (New Year’s resolutions last longer than we give them credit for)
- Most popular workout day: Tuesday
- Peak workout times: 6 p.m. on weekdays, 10 a.m. on weekends
Lunch-hour classes saw a major jump too—reservations between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. increased 38% globally, suggesting that wellness and the “return-to-office era” are learning to coexist.
And of course, everyone loves (and needs!) a rest day. The most common times for cancelations and no-shows? Early mornings and immediately after work. On weekends, 6 a.m. was the most-canceled slot; on weekdays, it was 11 a.m.
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