What happened to fitness first in Malaysia?
Opinion
26 Aug 2026 • 3:00 PM MYT

Fitness First entered Malaysia in 2001.
Anytime Fitness arrived 13 years later.
Today, Fitness First has 10 clubs in Malaysia. Anytime Fitness has 100+.
That doesn’t tell us who has more members or makes more money — but it does show how dramatically Malaysia’s gym landscape has changed.
So what happened?
