Now he has better things to do?

Lame-duck Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday he won’t return to his much-maligned two-borough trips for light workouts at his preferred Brooklyn YMCA for the remaining seven months of his tenure at City Hall.

“I’m looking forward to going back. I think at the rate I’m going, it’ll probably be next year when I’m done with this job. But I am definitely looking forward to going back at some point,” he said during his daily press briefing.

The mayor previously said in September that he had no plans to return to the Park Slope workout facility at the time — after Gov. Andrew Cuomo first allowed gyms to reopen amid the pandemic.

Still, Monday’s statement amounted to a dramatic about-face for de Blasio, who ignored a years-long onslaught of criticism over the daily 12-mile sojourns from the Gracie Mansion mayoral residence to the Prospect Park YMCA — where he would typically ride a stationary bike while watching cable news.

Meanwhile, several of the top candidates vying to replace the term-limited mayor vowed that they would not work and workout in different boroughs if they score the giu.

“Will I be living in one neighborhood and exercising [in] another? No,” fellow Park Sloper Kathryn Garcia told The Post.

And unlike the perennially tardy de Blasio, who The Post once gifted an alarm clock, Garcia is an early riser known to have frequently greeted underlings at 5 a.m. roll calls when she was the mayor’s Sanitation Commissioner.

Andrew Yang promised he would exercise on the Upper East Side — and that his family would make frequent use of two nearby neighborhood parks: Asphalt Green and Carl Schurz Park, which contains Gracie Mansion.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who has workout equipment inside Borough Hall, laid out his routine should he be elected to lead City Hall.

“By 6 a.m. every day, I’ve worked out, meditated and had my smoothie. Then I go right to work,” Adams told The Post.

De Blasio’s gym trips have given easy ammunition to his critics and frustrated his allies for years.

Those remonstrations peaked in March 2020 as de Blasio took what would be his last trip to the YMCA — all while city schools closed and he put the Big Apple under a state of emergency in a bid to contain the initial coronavirus outbreak.

Former top advisors for de Blasio assailed the decision publicly at the time, tweeting that it was “inexcusable and reckless,” “pathetic” and “self-involved.”

“The YMCA has been a huge part of his and his family’s life, like it has been for a lot of New Yorkers. It’s clear that’s about to change and before that, the mayor wanted to visit a place that keeps him grounded one last time,” a then-spokeswoman said in defense.

Additional reporting by Sam Raskin