Best Medium publications for Fitness writers
19 publications that publish Fitness stories. Publications marked open to new writers regularly publish people with fewer than 100 followers — the best place to submit your first stories.
Updated Oct 20, 2026
Where new Fitness writers get published
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long. Sweet. Valuable. open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 5 | 51 | 60% | |
| 2 | Health Management open to new writers | 14 | 13 | 79% | |
| 3 | Introvert Ink open to new writers | 4 | 146 | 75% | |
| 4 | Direction open to new writers | 6 | 55 | 67% | |
| 5 | Scripting Horizons open to new writers | 10 | 3 | 50% | |
| 6 | BeSund open to new writers | 6 | 0 | 100% |
All Fitness publications
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long. Sweet. Valuable. open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 5 | 51 | 60% | |
| 2 | Health Management open to new writers | 14 | 13 | 79% | |
| 3 | Introvert Ink open to new writers | 4 | 146 | 75% | |
| 4 | Direction open to new writers | 6 | 55 | 67% | |
| 5 | Scripting Horizons open to new writers | 10 | 3 | 50% | |
| 6 | BeSund open to new writers | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| 7 | 12 | 93 | 25% | ||
| 8 | 12 | 220 | 0% | ||
| 9 | 7 | 141 | 14% | ||
| 10 | 9 | 152 | 22% | ||
| 11 | 26 | 149 | 15% | ||
| 12 | 3 | 62 | 0% | ||
| 13 | 3 | 2 | 67% | ||
| 14 | Thirty over Fifty | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 15 | 3 | 337 | 0% | ||
| 16 | 3 | 482 | 0% | ||
| 17 | Honest Fiction guidelines ↗ | 2 | 262 | 0% | |
| 18 | VO₂ Maxed | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 19 | The Overthinking Runner | 5 | 0 | 0% |
How to choose a publication
Bigger is not always better. A publication with 192K followers can bury your story among dozens of daily posts, while a smaller, active publication that features new writers often brings more reads per story. Look at three numbers above: followers (potential reach), median claps (how much readers actually engage) and the share of small writers (your chances of being accepted).
For context, Fitness sees about 19 new stories a day and 50% of them get no claps at all. Getting into a publication is one of the few reliable ways out of that pile. See the full Fitness tag statistics.