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r/strength_training

5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.8K upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5Mmembers
1.8Kbest post
432most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

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.

98%
Video 98% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Lift 129 PR/PB 111 Form Check 55 Weekly Thread 4 Long Form Review of A Program I Ran 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

6 pull ups at 170lbs

↑ 1.8K 💬 141 video 2026

Weighted pulls 27.5kg 3 reps @59kg

↑ 1.6K 💬 64 video 2026

FINALLY! Two chin-ups today!

↑ 1.1K 💬 78 video 2026

Bench PR: 405 for 5 Incline. 186 BW, 5'7

↑ 1.1K 💬 235 video 2026

Managed 415lbs for 2 reps at 135lbs bw (and a fist bump from the guy deadlifting on the platform beside me)

↑ 896 💬 69 video 2026

405 clean and jerk

↑ 828 💬 63 video 2026

Week 33 of Deadlifting for Reddit until Satisfaction has been Achieved

↑ 694 💬 136 video 2026

Week 35 of Deadlifting for Reddit until they are Satisfied

↑ 657 💬 101 video 2026

340lbs @132

↑ 617 💬 79 video 2026

She hurt my feelings again

↑ 569 💬 255 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/strength_training, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/strength_training have?
r/strength_training has about 5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.8K upvotes, which is 0 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/strength_training?
"6 pull ups at 170lbs" reached 1.8K upvotes and 141 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/strength_training.
What subreddits are similar to r/strength_training?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/strength_training?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are video posts and 2% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/strength_training?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (415 avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (372 avg upvotes), Thursday at 12:00 UTC (325 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/strength_training?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/strength_training has 260 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/strength_training, 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.