Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten
Welcome to Faithful Fitness—discipleship for the body. Coach Alex here. This isn’t about chasing aesthetics or quick fixes. It’s about becoming a better steward of the body God has entrusted to you—through truth, discipline, and daily obedience. Each episode sits at the intersection of faith, physiology, and formation—where Scripture and science work together to build strength that actually lasts. What You’ll Find Here: 💪 Training & Nutrition That Works Simple, effective strategies rooted in exercise science—not trends. 📖 Biblical Stewardship & Identity Learn what it means to honor God with your body in a culture that treats it casually. 🎙️ Conversations That Sharpen You Interviews with leaders in health, performance, and faith—applied through a Christian lens. 🔥 Challenges & Community Join structured seasons like Faithful40 and Shred—where growth happens with others, not alone. Your body isn’t separate from your faith. It’s one of the primary places your faith is lived out. “You are not your own… therefore honor God with your body.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 If you’re tired of starting over… If you know you’re capable of more… If you’re ready to build discipline that actually sticks— You’re in the right place. Train hard. Pray harder. Get 1% better—daily. 📌 Join the Community: https://faithfulfitness.co/premium 📘 Get the Devotional: https://faithfulfitnessdevo.com #FaithfulFitness #AlexVanHouten #FaithfulFitnessPodcast #ChristianHealth #BiblicalStewardship #TrainHardPrayHarder Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-with-coach-alex-vanhouten--5150768/support.
Episodes
In this conversation with Rithvik Raya, Coach Alex dives deep into some of the biggest questions surrounding health, fitness, resilience, agency, suffering, faith, and human potential.Together they explore:
- Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and chronic pain
- Why modern abundance may be making us physically and men...
What if the biggest problem in modern fitness… isn’t motivation?
What if it’s misinformation? In this powerful conversation on the Live From America Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten joins Hatem for a deep dive into the psychology, biology, and spiritual side of health and fitness.
Together, they unpack:
- Why the fitness industry keeps failing everyday people
- The difference betwe...
In this episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex sits down with Amy Adams to unpack the concept of “digital sugar”—the constant overstimulation from social media that’s quietly shaping your attention, your habits, and even your relationship with God. Most people know how to avoid junk food. Few know how to avoid junk input.
And the cost is d...
In this deeply moving episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex sits down with Michelle Tornetta to explore a conversation many Christians have never had:How does God meet us through movement?
Together, they unpack:
- Why modern Christianity often disconnects the body from faith
- The hidden influence of Gnostic thinking in church culture
- How movement ...
What does the “perfect body” actually look like?In Part 2 of Coach Alex’s conversation on The Samir Show, the discussion moves beyond six-packs, big biceps, and Instagram fitness into something much more useful: building a body that can serve the mission.
Coach Alex explains why excessive muscle can become a liability for operators, why the best body is not necessarily the one that at...
In this conversation on the Husband Material Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten joins Drew Boa to unpack a powerful framework: the “Sin Spectrum of Fitness.”On one end—pride, vanity, comparison.
On the other—gluttony, sloth, and avoidance.Most people bounce between the two.Very few walk the narrow path: stewardship.This episode goe...
This conversation will challenge you.Not because it’s extreme…
But because it exposes something most people avoid:
👉 You’re capable of more than you think.
👉 But you won’t access it without surrender.
In this episode, I sit down with JD—an ultra-endurance athlete who completed one of the hardest feats on earth:10 Ironmans in 10 days across Hawaii.But this isn’t about endurance.It’s about obedience.It’...
This conversation is different.I joined This Week Explained—a geopolitical intelligence podcast—to talk about something most analysts completely overlook:
👉 Your body is a strategic asset.In a world of unstable systems, fragile supply chains, and rising global tension…Your health isn’t just personal anymore.
It’s mission-critical.
🔥 What We Dive Into:
- Why a sick population is a geopolitical threat
- ...
In this episode of Faithful Fitness, Coach Alex sits down with his wife Christin Van Houten to talk about her experience completing the Shred protocol, the unique challenges women face with fasting and exercise, and what it’s really like living inside the Faithful Fitness mission.
Christin shares how her relationship with fasting grew over several years—from believing it wasn’t possible for ...
Grace and peace.
Most people think their problem is stress.It’s not.It’s the fact that they never stop.In this conversation with Samir, we unpack a hard truth:
👉 The human body is built for stress… but only if it’s followed by recovery.And in today’s world—where your phone keeps you “on mission” 24/7—most people never actually recover.That’s where burnout, weight gain, anxiety, poor sleep, and disconnection begin.🔑...
In this short episode, Alex reflects on the past year — from launching the long-awaited Faithful Fitness Devotional and the Faithful Fitness App, to stepping away for a season of grief after losing his brother.
Through it all, the mission of Faithful Fitness has continued to grow. Across the ...
In this episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten sits down with breathwork expert Kurtis Lee Thomas, author of Breathwork Detox, to explore how breath restores agency—the God-given ability to act, respond, and choose again.
Together, they unpack:
-Why breath is the only sy...
We talk about:
-why “you can’t heal who you pretend to be”
-how silence turns trauma into identity
-the three types of depression (clinical, circumstantial, spiritual)
-why movement + sweat can be a practical weapon in the fight
-Kintsugi (broken, restored, stronger...
Drawing from Scripture, neuroscience, circadian biology, and lived discipleship, he shows how your first 30 minutes shape your faithfulness, clarity, and emotional regulation for the entire day. You’ll lea...
What does faithful fitness actually look like inside a real household? In this episode, Coach Alex sits down with his wife Christin—dietitian, working mom of two, and the often-unseen force behind their family’s rhythm—to talk honestly about parenting, nutrition, sleep, training, and discipline.
This isn’t a lecture or a perfect blueprint. It’s a grounded conversation about how faith and fitness shape daily decisions ...
In this sermon preached at New Life Church Greenbrier (Dec. 28, 2025), Coach Alex flips a familiar verse on its head: the gates of hell aren’t attacking the Church—they’re defending. Jesus’ promise isn’t that we’ll merely “hold on” until the end; it’s that the Church advances and hell can’t stop it.Coach Alex makes it practical: if you’ve spent a year waking up on defense—tired, in pain, stuck, reactive—there’s a rea...
What if the Church has misunderstood the body—not as a problem to fix, but as territory to reclaim? In this powerful, deeply personal conversation, Coach Alex VanHouten sits down with Alisa Keeton, founder of Revelation Wellness, to confront one of the most neglected truths in modern Christianity: God doesn’t just love your soul—He dwells in your body.
Together, they explore:
-Why shame—not laziness—is the real driv...
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Most Christians have been told addiction is a failure of willpower. Scripture says something far more serious: addiction is slavery. In this solo episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten dismantles the shame-based, slogan-driven approach to addiction and replaces it with a biblical and neuroscience-grounded framework for freedom.
Drawi...
In this episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex sits down with personal trainer and writer Christina Barkley, founder of Dogged Strength. Christina shares her journey from Hollywood’s entertainment world to a Christ-centered fitness practice, recounting how a powerful encounter with God shifted her perspective on health and strength.
Together, Alex and Christina unpack the truth about New Year’s resolution...
What happens when athletic excellence outpaces spiritual maturity? In this powerful conversation, Coach Drake Reed—former professional basketball player, high-school coach, and author—reveals the hidden spiritual battles facing young athletes today.
From locker rooms and college campuses to overseas professional leagues, Drake exposes why many Christian athletes collapse after success, not before it. This episode chal...
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