Best Gyms and Trainers in Sioux Falls: 2026 Guide
Twenty-two independent gyms, studios and trainers, grouped by how you want to train. Last reviewed September 20, 2026.
The short answer
The best gym is the one you are still walking into in March.
Everything else is detail.
- You need someone watching only you: Cuong Strong. The most specific published credentials in the city.
- You are over 40 and starting again: MB Wellness. Small groups of four, built for exactly this.
- You are hurt and need to train anyway: Empower U or Well Balanced Physical Therapy.
- You will not leave the house: Mega Strong Fitness. Eleven live classes a week on Zoom, $45 a month.
- You want to lift heavy: Los Campeones or Liberty Barbell.
- You want a class and a playlist: mōtiv, FORM or Core Soul Pilates.
- You are a woman who wants to lift: Evolve Fitness for Women, or Kota Rise at CrossFit Kota.
- You are tight and it is catching up with you: StretchLab.
- You are training hard and not recovering: RESET Sauna and Cold Plunge.
Quick match
| If this is you | Start with |
|---|---|
| I have never had a membership and I am nervous | CrossFit FC or MB Wellness. Both lead with exactly that |
| I want a real coach, one on one | Cuong Strong, Results Personal Training or The Exercise Coach |
| I am over 40 and coming back from nothing | MB Wellness. Groups of four, professionals over 40 |
| I have twenty minutes, twice a week, max | The Exercise Coach |
| I am recovering from an injury | Empower U or Well Balanced Physical Therapy |
| Pelvic floor, pregnancy or postpartum | Well Balanced Physical Therapy |
| I work out at 5am from my kitchen | Mega Strong Fitness. Live on Zoom at 5:30am |
| I want to compete in powerlifting or strongman | Los Campeones |
| Crowded gyms make me quit | Liberty Barbell. Membership is deliberately capped |
| I want to be told what to do every day | CrossFit FC, CrossFit Viable or CrossFit Sioux Falls |
| I am training for a HYROX | CrossFit Viable |
| My joints cannot take impact | mōtiv Climb classes or Core Soul Pilates |
| I am a woman over 50 starting Pilates | Core Soul Pilates |
| I get bored in three weeks | FORM. Over 60 classes a week |
| I am sore all the time | RESET Sauna and Cold Plunge |
| I work nights | Los Campeones, Liberty Barbell, Evolve, Top Fitness or HOTWORX |
| I am a woman who wants to lift | Evolve Fitness for Women or Kota Rise at CrossFit Kota |
| I want my daughter lifting with me | Kota Rise. Mother and daughter memberships |
| I am tight all the time | StretchLab, or Fascial Stretch Therapy at Top Fitness |
| I want to know every price before I call | CrossFit Kota publishes all of it |
A word about price
Almost nobody in Sioux Falls publishes what they charge.
Six businesses in this guide do. The rest quote by phone or in person.
- Mega Strong Fitness: $45 a month, $245 for six months, $485 a year.
- Results Personal Training: $30 to $65 an hour depending on format and length.
- MB Wellness: a $99 two-week trial with no commitment, plus three free workouts.
- CrossFit Kota: every tier published. Unlimited CrossFit $72 bi-weekly, HYROX $115 a month, Kota30 $45 bi-weekly.
- StretchLab: 4, 8 or 12 sessions a month, 25 or 50 minute formats.
- Planet Fitness: $15 to $24.99 a month plus a $49 annual fee.
Ask these three things on every call
- What is the monthly rate, the startup fee and the annual fee?
- What is the contract length, and what does it cost to cancel?
- Is there a free trial or a day pass?
Coached, one on one and small group
More per hour. Usually cheaper per result.
Worth it if you have started and stopped before.
Cuong Strong Personal Training & Nutrition
- The most specific published credentials of any trainer in this guide. Owner Cuong Strong Nguyen studied Exercise Science at Concordia University and Business Administration at Dakota State. ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer. Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist.
- Model: one to one in person and online. Custom programs, not class formats.
- Distinctive: ultrasound body composition assessment. Measurement rather than guessing.
- Also: custom nutrition coaching, red light therapy, exclusive gym memberships, supplement and gear retail.
- Who they work with: youth sports, healthy retirement, bodybuilding and bikini competitors, powerlifting, fat loss.
- Open over 10 years.
- Address: 705 S Marion Rd
- Website: cuongstrong.com
- Google rating: (161 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want numbers, not vibes, and you want the same coach every session.
The Exercise Coach
- Twenty minutes, private, coach-led.
- Technology: Exerbotics adaptive resistance. The machine matches the load to what you can actually produce, rep by rep.
- All fitness levels.
- Address: 6709 S Minnesota Ave, Suite L20
- Phone: (605) 302-6225
- Website: exercisecoach.com
- Google rating: (49 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if time is the real obstacle and twenty minutes twice a week is honestly all you will do.
Top Fitness
- Model: small group strength training, one to one personal training, nutrition coaching, Fascial Stretch Therapy, youth programs.
- Access: 24/7 for members. Staffed Mon through Fri 8 to 5.
- Distinctive: publishes specific programming for people with Parkinson's. Very few gyms anywhere do.
- Address: 2317 W Trevi Place
- Website: topfitnesssf.com
- Google rating: (41 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want coached small groups plus the freedom to train on your own days.
MB Wellness
- Four people per session, maximum. Individualized programming inside a small group, focused on functional fitness and longevity.
- Owner and trainer: Will Sturgeon.
- Built explicitly for professionals over 40 who want to burn fat, build strength and train in a community rather than alone.
- Published pricing: a $99 two-week trial with no commitment. Three free workouts on offer.
- Address: 3001 E 10th St
- Phone: (507) 401-7290
- Website: mymbwellness.com
- Google rating: (51 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you are over 40, you have tried the big-box thing, and you want someone who knows your name.
Results Personal Training
- Published pricing: $30 to $65 an hour depending on format and duration. One of four businesses here that tells you up front.
- Model: one on one and semi-private, up to four people.
- Built for: busy professionals, parents, and adults over 40 who want efficient sessions and real accountability.
- Operating since 2011.
- Address: 5020 S Tennis Lane, Suite 8
- Phone: (605) 310-6591
- Website: resultsptonline.com
- Google rating: (17 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want a real trainer, you want to split the cost with a friend, and you want the number before you walk in.
Hurt, healing, or rebuilding
Physical therapists who train people, not just treat them.
Empower U
- The deepest review history of any fitness or rehab business in this guide.
- Founder: Nathan LeMaster, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS. Also Dry Needling Certified Level II and a Certified Blood Flow Restriction Therapist.
- Services: performance physical therapy, dry needling, running rehabilitation, sports rehab, ACL rehabilitation, CrossFit rehab, myofascial release, golf training, running coaching.
- Approach: built around getting you back to the thing you were doing, not just out of pain.
- Address: 7303 Cliff Ave
- Phone: (605) 961-7250
- Website: theempoweru.com
- Google rating: (400 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you are injured and you do not want to be told to rest for six weeks.
Well Balanced Physical Therapy
- Practitioner: Ember Smith, PT, DPT. B.S. Exercise Science, South Dakota State, summa cum laude. DPT, University of South Dakota, summa cum laude.
- Training, and it is a long list: Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist, Dry Needling Level 1, Spinning Babies, Parkinson Wellness Recovery (PWR!Moves), Certified Group Exercise Instructor, STOTT Reformer Pilates, Yoga Sculpt, Barre.
- Services: pelvic floor PT, prenatal and postpartum, dry needling, orthopedic pain, plus Longevity Fitness group classes of 30 to 40 minutes and individual training. Online options available.
- Recovery on site: sauna, red light, wellness tools.
- Address: 7000 S Lyncrest Place, Floor 1
- Phone: (605) 610-8220
- Website: wellbalancedphysicaltherapy.com
- Google rating: (72 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you are pregnant, postpartum, leaking, or nobody has taken your pelvic floor seriously yet.
Training from home
Mega Strong Fitness
- Eleven live classes a week on Zoom. Not recordings you scroll past. Real classes at a set time with a coach watching.
- Owners: Megan Kool and Dirk Kool. Both NASM certified.
- The schedule: Megan leads a 50-minute circuit strength class at 5:30am. Dirk leads a 30-minute low-impact strength class at 6:30am. Miss one and the recording is emailed to you.
- Published pricing, and it is the clearest in this guide: $45 a month, which works out to about a dollar a class. $245 for six months. $485 a year.
- Also: nutrition guidance, video guides, supplement help.
- Built for: any age or fitness level. Every exercise is shown with an advanced version and a beginner modification.
- No physical location. This is a virtual business, which is why it will not turn up on a map.
- Website: megastrongfitness.com
- Google rating: not yet established
Go here if the drive is what stops you. At 5:30am in January, it usually is.
Serious strength
Los Campeones Gym
- Locally owned since 1983. Over four decades in the same city.
- Equipment: powerlifting, Olympic lifting and strongman equipment. Cardio. A posing room.
- Access: 24/7, open 365 days a year.
- Also: on-site retail store, certified personal trainers.
- The strongman equipment is the giveaway. Very few gyms in a city this size carry it.
- Address: 3400 S Sheldon Ln
- Website: loscampeonesgym.com
- Google rating: (58 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you compete, you want to, or you just want to train where lifting is taken seriously.
Liberty Barbell
- Membership is deliberately capped. That is the whole pitch. You are not waiting for a rack.
- Every membership includes a free consultation and a foundational program to start you off.
- Equipment: Precor, Keiser, Legend Fitness, Dynamic Fitness, ER Racks, Pit Shark.
- Access: 24/7. Ages 18 and up unless you are working with a trainer.
- Address: 27109 Independence Ave, Ste 101 and 102
- Website: liberty-barbell.com
- Google rating: (13 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if crowded gyms are why you stopped going, and you want a program handed to you on day one.
Coached group training
Someone writes the workout. Someone watches your form. You show up.
CrossFit Kota
- The deepest review history of any CrossFit gym in Sioux Falls, by more than double.
- Owners: Amanda and Brandon Fey. Eleven coaches on staff with over 60 years of combined CrossFit coaching experience. The Feys started in a garage in 2013 and opened the gym in 2023.
- Programs, and this is the widest list in town: CrossFit, HYROX, Kota30, Kota Rise (women's performance), Kota Sports Performance for ages 12 to 18, CrossFit Kids, Kota Barbell Club, BRIK Wellness.
- Published pricing, all of it. Unlimited CrossFit $72 bi-weekly individual, $100 couple, $110 family. CrossFit plus Kota30, HYROX and open gym $80 bi-weekly. Part-timers at 12 classes a month $115. Kota HYROX $115 a month. Kota Sports Performance $115 a month. Kota30 $45 bi-weekly.
- Also: sauna packages from $20 a month, InBody scans on the top tier, and a free trial.
- Address: 601 S Lyons Ave Ste 200
- Phone: (605) 660-5569
- Website: crossfitkota.com
- Google rating: (72 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want a gym that runs a real program for whoever you are, and tells you what every one of them costs.
CrossFit FC
- Format: group training, personal training, nutrition coaching. Drop-ins welcome.
- Tone: the site leads with how intimidating walking into a new gym feels. That is an honest pitch and a rare one.
- Address: 5045 Grant St b
- Phone: (605) 553-1696
- Website: crossfitfcsf.com
- Google rating: (33 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if CrossFit interests you but the culture has put you off before.
CrossFit Viable
- Distinctive: a dedicated HYROX program with race-specific functional training and running.
- Connected to CrossFit Kota. Brandon Fey is behind both, they share a phone line, and Viable's own site links to Kota. Two locations, one operation. Worth knowing if you are comparing them as separate options.
- Format: coach-led group classes scaled to your level.
- Also: online programming with full-equipment and minimal-equipment options.
- Who it is for, in their words: every level from competitor to adaptive athlete to "just-off-the-couchers."
- Two weeks free.
- Address: 4000 S Hawthorne Ave
- Website: crossfitviable.com
- Google rating: (19 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you have signed up for a HYROX, or you want a class that scales without making a thing of it.
CrossFit Sioux Falls
- Owner: Wes Dvorak.
- Format: one-hour classes. Everyone does a scaled version of the same workout, coached step by step.
- Address: not published in the affiliate directory. Call or check social.
- Website: crossfit.com
- Google rating: (31 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want the classic CrossFit class format from an established local affiliate.
Studios and classes
A schedule, a room, music, and someone counting.
mōtiv FITNESS
- Formats you will not find elsewhere in town: Climb on VersaClimbers, and Jump on rebounders.
- Full schedule: TRX 30 and 45, Jump 45 and 60, Climb 30, 30/30 cardio and strength, Barre 30/45/60, Cycle 45, Strength 50, and a CLIMB + Sculpt hybrid.
- Also: cycling shoe rentals.
- Address: 6225 S Western Ave
- Phone: (605) 271-1401
- Website: motivfitness.com
- Google rating: (106 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if your knees are done with running but you still want your heart rate up.
FORM Fitness Studio + Boutique
- The widest class list in the city. Over 60 classes a week.
- Formats: barre, hot yoga, TRX, yoga sculpt, reformer and mat Pilates, trampoline Bounce, HIIT, rowing, HIGH Fitness.
- Also: personalized training sessions alongside the group schedule.
- First week free.
- Address: 2210 W 69th St #150
- Phone: (605) 359-7131
- Website: formfitnessboutique.com
- Google rating: (49 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you get bored fast. Nowhere else offers this much variety on one membership.
HOTWORX
- Format: 30-minute infrared isometric sessions and 15-minute HIIT sessions, plus a functional exercise zone.
- Sessions: Hot Iso, Hot Pilates, Hot Yoga, Hot Barre None, Hot Core, Hot Cycle, Hot Blast and others.
- Access: 24 hours for members. First-timers come during staffed hours.
- Address: 2400 S Marion Rd Suite 130, plus 69th and Cliff
- Website: hotworx.net
- Google rating: not yet established
Go here if you want a sauna and a workout at the same time, on your own schedule, in 30 minutes.
Core Soul Pilates Studio
- A Merrithew Host Training Center. That is the organization behind STOTT PILATES, and it means this studio is qualified to certify instructors, not just teach classes. Very few studios in a city this size hold it.
- Owner and instructor: Debbie.
- Formats: Pilates reformer and TRX, plus a Getting To Know Pilates Reformer class for people who have never been on the equipment.
- The room skews toward women over 50, and that is a feature rather than an accident. If you have walked into a studio and felt like the oldest person there, this is the other thing.
- Community-first by design. The studio describes itself as a community based studio for building personal and mental strength.
- Also: supports the Huntington's Disease Society of America.
- Booking runs through MindBody. Pricing is not published, so call or email Debbie.
- Address: 3719 S Grange Ave
- Phone: (612) 816-0145
- Website: mycoresoul.com
- Google rating: not yet established
Go here if you are a woman over 50 starting Pilates and you want a room where that is the norm.
Women's strength and weightlifting
Lifting, in rooms built for it.
Evolve Fitness for Women
- Women only, and open 24 hours. That combination does not exist anywhere else in Sioux Falls.
- Recognition: a Local Best winner.
- Why it matters: the barrier for a lot of women starting to lift is not the barbell, it is the room. This removes the room from the equation.
- Pricing and class formats are not published. Call or stop in.
- Address: 4831 S Louise Ave
- Google rating: (67 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want to lift and you would rather not do it in front of a crowd of men.
Kota Rise at CrossFit Kota
- A dedicated women's performance track inside a full CrossFit gym, rather than a separate lighter version of the main class.
- Published pricing: $72 bi-weekly unlimited. $115 a month part time.
- Mother and daughter options: $100 bi-weekly unlimited, $150 a month part time. Nobody else in this guide offers that.
- Address: 601 S Lyons Ave Ste 200
- Phone: (605) 660-5569
- Website: crossfitkota.com
- Google rating: 5.0 (72 reviews, gym-wide)
Go here if you want to train seriously with other women and you want your daughter training alongside you.
Origin Strength
- Affiliated with Origin Health, Dr. Joe Moen's chiropractic and wellness practice. If you train here and something goes wrong, the person who fixes it already knows your programming.
- Format: group classes, high intensity, built around not wasting time.
- Pricing not published.
- Address: 3216 E 10th St
- Google rating: (10 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want group strength work with a sports chiropractor attached to the building.
Mobility and stretch
The thing you know you should be doing and are not.
It is also the difference between training for another decade and stopping at 55.
StretchLab Sioux Falls
- Assisted stretching with a practitioner they call a Flexologist. Somebody else moves you through ranges you will not get to on your own.
- Membership structure, published: 4, 8 or 12 sessions a month, in 25 or 50-minute formats. Higher tiers can be shared with up to four family members.
- The model is tracking over time: a practitioner who knows your history and adjusts the program as you go, rather than a one-off session.
- Owner: Jill.
- Address: 2213 W 57th St
- Phone: (605) 305-9615
- Website: stretchlab.com
- Google rating: (30 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you keep tweaking the same thing, or you want mobility work that is not a chiropractic adjustment.
Fascial Stretch Therapy at Top Fitness
- Fascial Stretch Therapy offered inside a coaching gym, so the person stretching you can see how you train.
- Also here: small group strength, one to one training, nutrition coaching, youth programs, and specific programming for people with Parkinson's.
- 24/7 member access.
- Address: 2317 W Trevi Place
- Website: topfitnesssf.com
- Google rating: (41 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want the mobility work and the strength work from the same people.
Well Balanced Physical Therapy
- When it is not tightness, it is an injury. Ember Smith, PT, DPT holds Dry Needling Level 1 and treats orthopedic pain alongside pelvic floor work.
- Full entry in the rehab section above.
- Address: 7000 S Lyncrest Place, Floor 1
- Phone: (605) 610-8220
- Website: wellbalancedphysicaltherapy.com
- Google rating: (72 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if stretching has not fixed it and you think something is actually wrong.
Recovery
The part most people skip, then wonder why they keep getting hurt.
RESET Sauna and Cold Plunge Studio
- Every session is in a private room. No shared plunge, no audience. That is the differentiator.
- Services: infrared sauna with red light therapy, cold plunge, contrast therapy combining both, and "Reset Together" sessions for two.
- Who it is for: athletes, endurance and cross-training, professionals managing stress, anyone working on sleep and energy.
- Address: 1900 S Sertoma Ave
- Website: resetsaunaandcoldplungestudio.com
- Google rating: (17 reviews, as of 9/20/26)
Go here if you want contrast therapy without a gym membership attached, or plunging in front of strangers is a non-starter.
The large fitness centers
This guide covers independent and locally owned gyms.
For completeness, the three big facilities in Sioux Falls:
If you want a pool, courts and a big building
Sanford Wellness Center on Oxbow: 4201 S Oxbow Ave. Lap pool, warm-water pool, racquetball and squash courts, sauna, heated yoga room, indoor track, kids room. Adaptive training offered.
GreatLIFE at Avera McKennan Fitness Center: 3400 S Southeastern Ave. Over 50,000 square feet. Pool with lap lanes, indoor track, basketball, pickleball, sauna, steam room, whirlpool.
GreatLIFE Golf & Fitness: multiple locations. Golf, pool, tennis, pickleball, bowling, plus EFS Recovery at Harrisburg with float therapy, cryotherapy and cold plunge.
Worth knowing about the Avera facility: GreatLIFE took over management on December 1, 2024. Avera still owns the building: this was a management agreement, not a sale. Existing Avera memberships did not carry over automatically; members had to enroll with GreatLIFE. Avera Therapy services remain on site.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a gym membership cost in Sioux Falls?
Four businesses in this guide publish rates. Mega Strong Fitness runs $45 a month for eleven live virtual classes a week. Results Personal Training runs $30 to $65 an hour. MB Wellness offers a $99 two-week trial. Planet Fitness runs $15 to $24.99 a month plus a $49 annual fee. Everyone else quotes by phone or in person. Budget roughly $30 to $80 a month for a standard gym and over $100 for boutique or coached programs, then confirm.
What is the best gym in Sioux Falls for beginners?
CrossFit FC leads its own marketing with how intimidating a new gym feels. MB Wellness caps groups at four and is built for people over 40 starting again. Liberty Barbell includes a consultation and a starter program with every membership. Core Soul Pilates runs beginner reformer classes for people who have never touched the equipment. The Exercise Coach uses equipment that adapts to whatever you can do on the day.
I am over 40 and out of shape. Where do I start?
MB Wellness is the most direct answer. Small groups of four, functional fitness and longevity, explicitly built for professionals over 40. Results Personal Training names adults over 40 as a core group. Well Balanced Physical Therapy runs Longevity Fitness classes if there is an injury or a pelvic floor issue in the picture. The Exercise Coach if twenty minutes is realistic and an hour is not.
Where can I do cold plunge or cryotherapy in Sioux Falls?
RESET Sauna and Cold Plunge Studio on Sertoma Avenue offers infrared sauna, cold plunge and contrast therapy, all in private rooms. EFS Recovery at GreatLIFE Harrisburg offers floating, cryotherapy, cold plunge, sauna and red light therapy. HOTWORX offers infrared studio sessions but not cold plunge.
Is a personal trainer worth the money?
It depends on why you have stopped before. If you know what to do and only need to show up, a low-cost membership is enough. If you are returning from injury, working to a deadline, or have started and quit repeatedly, coaching changes the math. Semi-private is the middle ground. Results Personal Training runs groups of up to four, and MB Wellness is built entirely around groups of four.
Can I do this without leaving my house?
Mega Strong Fitness runs eleven live classes a week on Zoom for $45 a month, with recordings emailed if you miss one. Both owners are NASM certified and based in Sioux Falls. Cuong Strong, CrossFit Viable and Well Balanced Physical Therapy all offer online programming alongside their in-person work.
My joints hurt. What are my low-impact options?
mōtiv FITNESS runs Climb classes on VersaClimbers and Jump classes on rebounders. Core Soul Pilates is reformer-based and keeps classes small. The Exercise Coach uses adaptive resistance that matches the load to what you can produce. Well Balanced Physical Therapy if there is an actual injury rather than general wear.
Who is the best trainer in Sioux Falls?
It depends what you need, and any guide naming one person is not being straight with you. Cuong Strong publishes the most specific credentials and does ultrasound body composition testing. Nathan LeMaster at Empower U holds PT, DPT, SCS and CSCS plus Level II dry needling, and has the deepest review history in the guide. Ember Smith at Well Balanced is the answer for pelvic floor, pregnancy and postpartum. Will Sturgeon at MB Wellness is the answer for over-40 small group.
How We Ranked These Providers
Twenty-two independent fitness businesses were reviewed for this guide.
- Businesses are grouped by how you want to train, not ranked one through twenty-two. A powerlifter and someone returning from a C-section are not shopping for the same thing.
- Inside each group, businesses are ordered by depth of practice: published credentials, years open, scale of the operation, and review history. Appearing on the Dialed In Health podcast is a tiebreaker inside that order, not an override.
- Google ratings are shown for reference with the date captured. They are not a ranking input. Review volume in this category tracks how long a business has been open more than how good it is, so we do not score it.
- Ratings are shown only where a business has at least 10 reviews.
- This guide covers independent and locally owned gyms, studios and trainers. The hospital-system fitness centers are listed separately at the end for context. They are large, they are fine, and they are not what this guide is for.
We do not accept payment to alter rankings within a tier.
Details change without notice. Confirm hours, rates and contract terms before you sign anything.
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