r/crossfit vs r/Fitness
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CrossFit community vs general Fitness wiki room
r/crossfit’s public description covers CrossFit methodology, weightlifting, functional fitness, the sport and lifestyle tips. r/Fitness describes a place for physical fitness goals and points readers at its wiki and FAQ.
In our directory, Fitness is much larger (about 12.6M, rank #69) than crossfit (about 1.8M, rank #596). Activity samples show Fitness posting more often (~26 posts/day vs ~9). Both samples are text-forward. Fitness’s sample flairs include gym-story Saturday, physique Phriday, moronic Monday and victory Sunday. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities. SubMouse already compares Fitness with bodyweightfitness, loseit and xxfitness; this pair is specifically CrossFit versus the general Fitness wiki room.
Rule titles: crossfit bans medical/injury posts and requires CrossFit relevance; Fitness steers common questions to its rules and wiki before posting.
- Choose r/crossfit for CrossFit methodology and sport talk under its relevance and no-medical-advice rules.
- Choose r/Fitness for broad programming and wiki-guided fitness questions under its read-the-wiki rules.
- Fitness is inside the current Top 100; crossfit opens via the info tool.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/crossfit
CrossFit on reddit
A community for discussing all things CrossFit, including: • The methodology – weightlifting, functional fitness, training, lifestyle, and tips. • The sport – athletes, competitions, endorsements, and events. • The orga…
- Members
- 1.8M
- 7-day growth
- +357
- Posts/day
- 8.7
- Directory rank
- #596
- Created
- Dec 25, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 85%, images 7%, videos 3%
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Posts should be related to CrossFit
- Zero tolerance for discrimination and hate speech
- Be polite, respectful, and helpful
- No medical, injury, or pain-related posts
- Self-promotion requires regular participation
- Protect privacy and personal information
- No affiliate codes in product or deal posts
- No SaaS or survey requests without approval
- Check the FAQ and search before posting
- Direct relevant posts to the megathreads
- Avoid all-caps, excessive emojis, and editorializing in titles
- No Spotify playlist posts
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r/Fitness
Fitness
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
- 12.6M
- 7-day growth
- +3.2K
- Posts/day
- 26.3
- Directory rank
- #69
- Created
- May 7, 2008
- Submissions
- Text posts
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Fitness
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Read the Rules Before Posting
- Read the Wiki Before Posting
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/crossfit | r/Fitness |
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| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
A community for discussing all things CrossFit, including: • The methodology – weightlifting, functional fitness, training, lifestyle, and tips. • The sport – athletes, competitions, endorsements, and events. • The orga… |
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. |
| Size r/Fitness is larger in our directory (about 6.8×). |
1.8M members |
12.6M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
8.7/day |
26.3/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 85%, images 7%, videos 3% |
text posts 100% |
| Allowed submission type (meta) |
Text or links |
Text posts |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
n/a |
Fitness |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
Posts should be related to CrossFit; Zero tolerance for discrimination and hate speech; Be polite, respectful, and helpful; No medical, injury, or pain-related posts; Self-promotion requires regular participation |
Read the Rules Before Posting; Read the Wiki Before Posting |
What they share
- Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
crossfit short titles include: posts should be related to CrossFit; zero tolerance for discrimination and hate speech; be polite, respectful and helpful; no medical, injury or pain-related posts; self-promotion requires regular participation; protect privacy; no affiliate codes in product posts; no SaaS or survey requests without permission.
Fitness: read the rules before posting; read the wiki before posting. Our sample flairs include gym story Saturday, physique Phriday, moronic Monday and victory Sunday.
Where this comparison comes from
Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only. Related curated pages: fitness-vs-bodyweightfitness, loseit-vs-fitness, xxfitness-vs-fitness.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.