In 2023, the number of users of free weights (barbells) in the United States amounted to approximately 29.3 million. This was an increase of 0.62 percent from the previous year.
Number of users of free weights (barbells) in the United States from 2011 to 2023
(in millions)
A weighting technique was used to balance the data to reflect the total U.S. population ages six and above.
A participant is defined as an individual who took part in the activity at least once in the given year.
Number of survey participants from 2016 onwards: 24,134 (2016) / 30,999 (2017) / 20,069 (2018) / 18,000 (2019) / 18,000 (2020) / 18,000 (2021) / 18,000 (2022) / 18,000 (2023). Figures for earlier years were not provided by the source.
Figures prior to 2017 were taken from previous surveys.
Figures from 2023 were rounded to one decimal place by source.
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