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 on the Everyday Spy Podcast, Andrew Bustamante sits down with Coach Alex VanHouten to talk about faith, fitness, agency, hope, chronic pain, marriage, truth, and why the pursuit of a goal often changes us more than achieving the goal itself.
Coach Alex explains why training should never be reduced to vanity, random workouts, or checking a box. Inste...
Coach Alex sits down with San Qing on The Way for a wide-ranging conversation about exercise science, stress adaptation, mitochondria, fasting, performance, belief, martial arts, and what happens when the body is challenged and forced to grow.But this conversation also moves into territory that many Faithful Fitness listeners may not be used to hearing.
Daoism.
Eastern medicine.
Energy...
In this conversation on the G-Spodcast, Coach Alex VanHouten joins the host for an honest, practical, and sometimes funny conversation about fatherhood, fitness, chronic pain, nutrition, faith, and what it means to steward the body God has given you.
The episode begins with a real question from a brand-new father:How do you train, eat well, and stay grounded when you...
Alex shares how living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome—a painful genetic disorder affecting collagen, joints, connective tissue, and digestion—shaped his path as an exercise scientist and faith-based...
In this episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex sits down with Dr. Stacy Haynes, a licensed professional counselor, educator, speaker, author, and children’s ministry leader, to discuss a truth every parent needs to understand:Mental health is physical health.
Together, they explore how sleep, nutrition, movement, technology,...
You may just be trying to follow someone else’s plan.In this episode, Coach Alex VanHouten joins The Next Level Guy Show for a deep conversation on discipline, elite performance, faith, pain, and what it actually takes to make progress that lasts.
Coach Alex is an exercise scientist, faith-based health coach, author of Faithful Fitness, and founder of a movement helping...
Why can something as simple as a workout trigger emotions, fear, shame, or even tears?
In this powerful conversation, Coach Alex sits down with trauma-informed health coach and author De Bolton to explore the deep connection between movement, trauma, healing, and Christian stewardship.
Together they discuss:
- How trauma is stored i...
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...
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 fitne...
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...
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 cult...
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 operat...
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 f...
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...
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 D...
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 belie...
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&rs...
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 con...
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.
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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 i...
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