The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Image 76%Video 22%Gallery 1%
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/GymMemes?
r/GymMemes ("Enough with the numbers and routines - let's lift heavy shit!") describes itself this way: It never gets easier, you just get stronger. It was founded in 2013 and has 2.1M members.
How many members does r/GymMemes have?
r/GymMemes has about 2.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.6K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/GymMemes?
"Gains gains gains" reached 19.6K upvotes and 102 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/GymMemes.
What subreddits are similar to r/GymMemes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/ukraine, r/florida.
What kind of posts do best on r/GymMemes?
Of the posts we hold, 76% are image posts and 22% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/GymMemes?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 12:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/GymMemes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/GymMemes has 6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 18 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/GymMemes, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.