r/Fitness

Founded May 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 22

A place for the pursuit of physical fitness goals. Please see the r/Fitness Wiki and FAQ at https://thefitness.wiki for help with common questions.

Members

12,593,526

12.6M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

1.7

from the last 100 posts, spanning 58.1 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

medium

read the sidebar rules first

Last post

Oct 21

sampled Oct 22

Distinct posters

5.0%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 22 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Oct 22 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/Fitness — frequently asked

How many members does r/Fitness have?

r/Fitness has 12,593,526 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 22. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Fitness growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Fitness yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 22; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/Fitness?

Around 1.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 58.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/Fitness created?

r/Fitness was founded in May 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/Fitness?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 5.0% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 21. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/Fitness?

Our read on r/Fitness is medium promo tolerance. A product mention is fine when it genuinely answers the question asked, and unwelcome when it does not. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/Fitness for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Fitness into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/Fitness's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Fitness's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/Fitness Subreddit Stats — 12.6M members, 1.7 posts/day