Medium “Fitness” tag statistics
How busy the Fitness tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 280 stories from the last 14.4 days
Busier than 8% of 73 tracked tags
19% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 19 stories a day, Fitness is busier than 8% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (141,171 followers per daily story) is higher than 96% of tags — more readers per story than average.
59% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 19% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 47% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.9 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Fitness stories
| Publication | Followers | Fitness stories (last 14.4d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 12 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 10 |
| Second Nature (formerly In Fitness & In Health) | 192K | 10 |
| Health and Science | 8.6K | 9 |
| Runner's Life | 28K | 8 |
| Scripting Horizons | 171 | 4 |
| Nudge | 838 | 3 |
| Publishous | 70K | 3 |
| Health Management | 2.9K | 3 |
| the Challenged | 2.3K | 2 |
Top Fitness stories right now
- 160 Hours of Hard Exercise Since January — Want To Know What’s Changed?
- I Made the Viral 3-Ingredient Superfood Bread That Helps You Lose Weight
- Weight Loss Mistakes
- September Goals Recap: Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned
- The Power of NO: Why Saying No Will Save Your Life
- I’m 72, and My Back Pain Wasn’t Aging. It Was an Exercise I Did for Decades.
- From Stiff Joints to Strong Steps: The Power of World Physical Therapy Day
- Scientists Keep Finding the Age When We Suddenly Get Old. The Age Keeps Changing.
- The Five Habits of Sexually Confident Men
- Move, Reset, Repeat: The New Way Girls Are Thinking About Fitness
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Fitness tag on Medium?
- About 19 per day (136 per week), based on 280 stories published in the 14.4-day window before our last scan. The tag has 106,592 stories in total.
- Is the Fitness tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 8% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 141,171 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Fitness?
- 19% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 59% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.