Every year, New Years Resolutioners lace up their sneakers after their hangovers wear off to take their shiny new gym memberships for a test spin before retiring them at some point, presumably a few weeks later. But according to new data from Classpass, the most popular day to work out is not January 2nd. It’s not even in January. It’s February 28th. Surprising, right!? The fitness-class-booking service analyzed data from nearly 40 million fitness reservations made this year to collect info on 2017’s fitness trends. In addition to discovering that February 28th was the most popular day to sweat, they also found that Tuesday is the most common day of the week to take a class (perhaps less surprisingly, February 28th, 2017 was a Tuesday). There’s not a clear reason that 2/28 took the top spot, but some combo of chilly weather and the fact that it was a Tuesday seem to have played a role.

Some other stats from the survey worth noting: 6:30 p.m. is the most popular class time on weekdays, while 10am takes the top spot on weekends (seems early, but whatever works!). Strength training is the most popular class offering overall, but the workout of choice does vary a bit by city: Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston all prefer Pilates; Seattle, Portland, Raleigh, Columbus, Ohio and Kansas City, Missouri chose yoga; the top pick in Washington D.C. and Austin is indoor cycling; and in Orlando users love barre classes. (Strength training won in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Tampa, Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.)

The data didn’t just look back at the year that was: Classpass forecasts that the next big workout trend for 2018 will be meditation, restorative, and recovery classes. Already in 2017 users taking those types of classes has grown by 16 percent, so odds are pretty good that the number will continue to climb next year. Namaste.

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