Most fitness publications have a stories section by launch day. Ours is empty, and that is deliberate: the stories in it will be from real people who send them to us, and none of them exist yet.
What we are looking for
Not extraordinary achievements. The ones worth reading are almost always ordinary: someone who could not run for five minutes and now runs 5K on Saturdays. Someone who got their first pull-up at forty-three. Someone who entered an event they had no business entering and finished it.
- What you could not do before, and what you can do now.
- How long it took, honestly — including the bit where you stopped for a month.
- What you got wrong.
- What actually kept you going, which is usually not what you expected.
What we will not run
- Before-and-after photography. It measures the wrong thing and it makes readers feel worse. We would rather have a picture of you doing the thing.
- Weight-loss numbers as the achievement. If that is part of your story we are not going to pretend it did not happen, but it will not be the headline.
- Anything we cannot verify with you directly. We will speak to you before we publish.
How it works
- Email hello@trainforsomething.com with a few paragraphs. It does not need to be polished.
- We will come back with questions.
- We write it up in your words and send it to you before it goes anywhere.
- Nothing is published until you have read it and agreed.
You choose how much of your name appears. First name only is fine.
