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Faithful Fitness By Better Daily

Faithful Fitness By Better Daily

By: Coach Alex VanHouten
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Welcome to Faithful Fitness, where we train our bodies and strengthen our faith!
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This channel is dedicated to Bible-based fitness, health, and mindset growth so you can honor God through disciplined stewardship.What You’ll Find Here:

🔥 Workouts & Training Tips – Get stronger with faith-driven fitness.
📖 Biblical Health & Stewardship – Align scripture & science for lasting wellness.
🎙️ Inspiring Interviews – Hear from health & fitness experts from all over the globe.
🚀 Community Challenges – 40 days of fitness, faith, and transformation in community!

Your body is a temple (1 Cor. 6:19-20)—let’s train hard, pray harder, and grow 1% better daily!📌 Subscribe Now & Join the Movement!💥

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*You can also catch episodes from Defining Dad Bod and Better Daily Live (2017-now) in this archive!

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Episodes
  • The Pace of Peace: Finding Calm in Body, Soul, and Home with Michelle Brumgard

    The Pace of Peace: Finding Calm in Body, Soul, and Home with Michelle Brumgard
    Nov 20 2025
    Episode Summary
    What if peace wasn’t just a feeling you occasionally experience but a person you follow daily? In this episode, Coach Alex sits down with author, speaker, and podcast host Michelle Brumgard to explore what she calls The Pace of Peace.

    Michelle shares how years of praying for calm—in her body, her marriage, and her home—revealed that true peace isn’t found in quick fixes, quiet moments, or the absence of chaos, but in Christ Himself, the Prince of Peace.

    Through vulnerable stories of motherhood, marriage struggles, overwhelm, and the practical demands of daily life, Michelle helps us understand how to pause, pray, and invite Jesus into the middle of our messy days.

    Together, Alex and Michelle unpack how peace intersects with our health, fitness, and homes—and why striving for control only leads to more overwhelm. Whether you’re a busy parent, a believer battling stress, or simply hungry for God’s presence in your everyday life, this conversation will remind you to slow down, breathe, and walk at the pace of peace.

    Main Discussion Themes
    -Why peace is not just an emotion but a person (Jesus, the Prince of Peace)
    -Michelle’s journey: from overwhelm, anxiety, and striving to living at God’s pace
    -The difference between worldly peace (quick fixes, calm moments) and biblical peace
    -Overwhelm as the opposite of peace—and practical ways to reset
    -The P.A.C.E. acronym: Pray And Continue Earnestly
    -How overwhelm shows up in parenting, marriage, health, and the home
    -Simple daily practices for pausing, praying, and re-centering on Christ -Michelle’s free resource: Five Proverbs to Pray When You Feel Overwhelmed
    -Her upcoming book The Pace of Peace (January release)

    Timestamped Outline
    00:00 – 05:00 | Pre-show: life on the farm, fiber internet, kids growing up
    05:00 – 12:00 | Introducing Michelle: mom of two, podcast host, relaunching her coaching ministry 12:00 – 20:00 | Why peace became her life’s message (journaling, prayer, revelation)
    20:00 – 28:00 | What peace is not: quick fixes, pills, naps, or achieving goals
    28:00 – 40:00 | Biblical peace as presence with Christ—even in chaos 4
    0:00 – 55:00 | Overwhelm: the opposite of peace (parenting, schedules, meals, body image)
    55:00 – 01:05:00 | Practical resets: journaling, prayer, prioritizing with God
    01:05:00 – 01:15:00 | The P.A.C.E. acronym: Pray And Continue Earnestly
    01:15:00 – 01:25:00 | Free resource: Five Proverbs to Pray When You Feel Overwhelmed
    01:25:00 – 01:30:00 | Final encouragement + closing prayer

    Move Forward Today
    ✅Get Coach Alex's new book today! Faithful Fitness Devotional (40-Day Guide): https://faithfulfitnessdevo.com
    ✅Join the BetterDaily community! Faith And Fitness Foundations: https://betterdaily.live/beginner ✅Download Michelle’s free resource – Five Proverbs to Pray When You Feel Overwhelmed (link in show notes).
    ✅Listen to The Pace of Peace Podcast for weekly encouragement and biblical guidance.
    ✅Pause & Pray – When overwhelm hits, stop and bring your list to God.
    ✅Look for Evidence of Peace – Write down small ways God is showing His faithfulness today. ✅Pre-order Michelle’s book The Pace of Peace (January release).

    Featured Guest Resources
    -Free Resource: Five Proverbs to Pray When You Feel Overwhelmed
    -Podcast: The Pace of Peace Podcast
    -Book: The Pace of Peace (releasing January)

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.
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    48 mins
  • “How Sound Theology Shapes Real Discipleship (and Real Muscles)”

    “How Sound Theology Shapes Real Discipleship (and Real Muscles)”
    Nov 13 2025
    🧠 Episode Summary
    Coach Alex reconnects with longtime friend and former training partner Gabe Aguirre—now an itinerant preacher and theological content creator—to unpack the vital link between biblical depth, spiritual endurance, and embodied faith.

    They explore why expositional preaching is essential for growing deep spiritual roots, how to guard against modern Gnosticism that separates body and spirit, and what bodybuilding can teach us about stewardship and discipline under Christ’s lordship.

    By the end of this episode, you’ll understand how good theology makes strong disciples—and strong bodies serve eternal purposes.

    🧩 Main Discussion Themes
    -What “Expositional Preaching” really means (and why it’s missing in most churches)
    -The danger of “milk-only” Christianity vs. the meat of the Word
    -Rooting your faith deeply enough to withstand trials and lies
    -How theology forms the foundation of resilience in suffering
    -Modern Gnosticism: how the church has unconsciously separated body and spirit
    -The role of bodybuilding and fitness in spiritual growth and stewardship
    -Avoiding idolatry in both ministry and the gym
    -Doing all things unto the glory of God, including your workouts

    🕒 Timestamped Outline
    00:00 — Pre-show banter & nine-year reunion
    01:40 — Why Alex invited Gabe: Faith + Theology + Fitness
    03:30 — Defining “Expositional Preaching” (and why it matters)
    06:10 — Milk vs. Meat: Growing past spiritual infancy
    08:30 — Why the church needs deeper teaching, not diluted faith
    10:45 — The “Gates of Hell” passage reexamined – offense vs. defense
    13:50 — Commentary study, seminary insights, and tools for laypeople
    16:00 — Shallow roots vs. deep roots: The parable of the sower in real life
    18:30 — Why theology matters in times of suffering and loss
    22:15 — Sound doctrine as protection against despair and false teaching
    26:45 — The Bible’s depth: “shallow enough for a child, deep enough for a lifetime”
    30:00 — Milk preaching doesn’t prepare for suffering
    32:45 — Scripture misused: coffee mugs and context
    35:00 — America’s spiritual turning point & hunger for truth
    38:00 — Taking territory back from hell – the church on offense
    40:15 — Gen Z, biblical illiteracy, and the cost of losing the Word
    43:00 — The 95% problem: Living on fresh media instead of ancient truth
    46:00 — Psalms 1: being rooted by rivers of living water
    48:00 — Scripture stands the test of time – Acts & Gamaliel’s warning
    49:30 — Transition: the body as a theological battleground
    51:00 — Bodybuilding as discipline, not vanity
    53:30 — Stewardship, idolatry, and keeping Christ first in fitness
    56:00 — The “artist’s eye” of bodybuilding – perfection as devotion
    58:00 — Discipline, suffering, and spiritual transformation through training
    01:01:00 — Bringing Christ into every part of life—24/7 discipleship
    01:03:00 — Gabe’s final exhortation: Avoid idolatry; glorify God in all things
    01:04:30 — Closing prayer for Gabe & his ministry
    01:05:30 — Outro: “Train Hard, Pray Harder.”

    🏃‍♂️ Move Forward Today
    ✅Get Coach Alex's new book today! Faithful Fitness Devotional (40-Day Guide): https://faithfulfitnessdevo.com
    ✅Join the BetterDaily community! Faith And Fitness Foundations: https://betterdaily.live/beginner
    ✅ Read one passage of Scripture expositionally—word by word, context by context
    ✅ Reflect: Are there areas where your fitness or goals have become idols?
    ✅ Set your alarm 30 minutes earlier tomorrow to be in the Word before the world
    ✅ Invite a brother or sister in Christ to train or study with you this week
    ✅ Subscribe to Expositor99 for deeper theological insights

    🔗 Featured Guest Resources
    📺 YouTube: Expositor99
    📖 Recommended Study Tools: ESV Study Bible, NIV Theological Study Bible 🎧 Faithful Fitness Devotional: FaithfulFitnessDevo.com

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Embodiment vs. Simulation: Fitness in the Age of AI

    Embodiment vs. Simulation: Fitness in the Age of AI
    Nov 6 2025
    📖 Episode Summary
    In an age of artificial intelligence, digital simulation, and disembodied experiences, it’s easy to lose touch with what makes us truly human. We outsource more than ever—our thinking, our remembering, even our relationships.

    But there is one practice that cannot be simulated: fitness. In this episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten explores why exercise isn’t just about health metrics or biblical stewardship of your own body.

    Fitness is an act of resistance against disembodiment. It is a bastion of reality, a practice that anchors you to your own flesh, reminds you of God’s design, and connects you with others in ways no algorithm can replicate. If you’ve ever wondered how faith, fitness, and the future collide, this is the conversation you don’t want to miss.

    🗝 Main Discussion Themes
    -The cultural drift toward disembodiment in the “Age of AI”
    -Why fitness is one of the last unmediated human experiences
    -Exercise as a practice of resistance and remembrance of being alive
    -How shared physical exertion strengthens connection and community
    -The incarnational truth: God became flesh, and our embodiment matters

    ⏱ Timestamped Outline
    0:00 — Intro: The Most Counter-Cultural Thing You Can Do
    1:45 — Reason 1: We Live in Disembodied Times 3:00 — Reason 2: Fitness Is Resistance Against Cultural Drift
    4:10 — Reason 3: Fitness Is Always Real
    5:25 — Reason 4: The Body Is Wired for Adaptation and Connection
    7:10 — Reason 5: Stewardship – Your Body as a Temple
    8:55 — Reason 6: Fitness Prepares You for the Future
    9:55 — Reason 7: It’s Really Not That Hard
    11:00 — Closing Encouragement: Don’t Outsource Your Humanity
    12:15 — Outro: Train Hard, Pray Harder

    🏃 Move Forward Today
    -Move Your Body: Do something physical today that reminds you you’re alive.
    -Train With Others: Invite someone to walk, lift, or sweat with you.
    -Reflect Spiritually: Thank God for the gift of your body — “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

    🌐 Featured Resources
    -Faithful Fitness Devotional (40-Day Guide): https://faithfulfitnessdevo.com
    -Faith And Fitness Foundations: https://betterdaily.live/beginner

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.
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    13 mins
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