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Faithful Fitness By Better Daily

Faithful Fitness By Better Daily

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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!💥

Pre-order Is Open! Reserve your copy of "Faithful Fitness" Today! https://betterdaily.live/devo

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

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.Copyright The Betterment Co Cristianismo Desarrollo Personal Espiritualidad Higiene y Vida Saludable Ministerio y Evangelismo Éxito Personal
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  • 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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  • Outgrowing Porn: Healing Hearts and Redeeming Sexuality with Drew Boa

    Outgrowing Porn: Healing Hearts and Redeeming Sexuality with Drew Boa
    Oct 30 2025
    ✨ Episode Summary
    In this groundbreaking episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex sits down with Drew Boa—author of Outgrow Porn and founder of Husband Material Ministries—to tackle one of the most hidden yet destructive struggles in the Church today: pornography.

    Drew combines neuroscience, psychology, and biblical truth to offer a message of hope far beyond “try harder” strategies and purity culture. Together, Alex and Drew explore how porn is not simply a moral issue but a sexualized solution to unprocessed pain—and how healing, maturity, and God’s grace provide the true path to freedom.

    This episode will challenge you, encourage you, and equip you (or someone you love) to walk in freedom, heal from shame, and redeem sexuality under the Lordship of Christ.

    📌 Main Discussion Themes
    -Why fitness, sexuality, and stewardship are inseparably linked
    -The difference between arousal and desire—and why it matters
    -Porn as a pacifier: a counterfeit solution to unprocessed pain
    -How shame becomes toxic—and how bringing it into the light disarms it
    -The failure of “purity culture” vs. the grace-driven process of healing
    -Practical tools for moving past porn and into deeper connection with God and others
    -The Church’s calling to reclaim sexual wholeness and disciple future generations

    🕒 Timestamped Outline
    00:00 – Alex’s introduction and framing: What does porn have to do with fitness?
    06:40 – Drew shares about fitness, music, and life in Colorado Springs
    08:30 – Introducing Drew Boa: author, podcaster, and Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional
    10:15 – Why porn affects stewardship of the body and faith
    12:00 – Sexuality as blessing and boundaries: fire in the fireplace analogy
    14:30 – Fighting waves vs. riding them: how to deal with sexual energy
    17:20 – Why Outgrow Porn is different from other books on the subject
    19:10 – Porn as a “sexualized solution to unprocessed pain”
    23:30 – The pacifier metaphor: outgrowing childish solutions
    27:20 – Fitness metaphor: “try harder” vs. healing foundations
    29:40 – Purity culture’s failures and the need for compassion
    31:15 – The shame cycle and how healing begins with safe connection
    36:00 – Shame: when it’s healthy, when it’s toxic, and how to bring it into light
    42:30 – Accessibility of Drew’s writing: practical tools, not academic jargon
    44:50 – Head to heart to gut: integrating all of yourself in healing
    46:50 – Drew’s hope for the Church: not just avoiding lust, but learning love
    50:20 – On offense: the Church storming the gates of hell
    52:10 – Porn as spiritual warfare—and how Christ meets us with compassion
    54:20 – Drew’s final words: “Always remember, you are God’s beloved son”
    55:20 – Alex closes in prayer over Drew, his work, and listeners

    🚀 Move Forward Today
    -Grab Coach Alex's devotional: Faithful Fitness – A 40-Day Devotional for Christian Health and Stewardship → https://Faithfulfitnessdevo.com
    -Join the Better Daily Community → https://betterdaily.live/invite
    -Get Drew’s Book: Outgrow Porn – download the free first chapter and begin your healing journey.
    -Join Husband Material: Explore Drew’s coaching, groups, and retreats at husbandmaterial.com.
    -Bring Shame into the Light: Share this episode with a trusted friend, group, or pastor—and start the conversation.
    -Remember: True fitness includes stewarding every part of your body, mind, and spirit.

    📚 Featured Guest Resources
    -Book: Outgrow Porn – Drew Boa
    -Podcast: Husband Material Podcast
    -Website: drewboa.com
    -Ministry: husbandmaterial.com

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faithful-fitness-by-better-daily--5150768/support.
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    53 m
  • The Body Teaches the Soul: Justin Whitmel Earley on Habits, Holiness, and Stewardship

    The Body Teaches the Soul: Justin Whitmel Earley on Habits, Holiness, and Stewardship
    Oct 23 2025
    📖 Episode Summary
    In this special episode of the Faithful Fitness Podcast, Coach Alex VanHouten welcomes Justin Whitmel Earley—lawyer, author of Habits of the Household, and father of four—to discuss his upcoming book The Body Teaches the Soul. Justin shares how years of grueling work in a law firm, fatherhood, and a CrossFit gym encounter awakened him to the reality that our bodies and souls are inseparably joined.

    What began as lessons in physical endurance soon became lessons in patience, grace, and discipleship. Together, Alex and Justin explore why the modern church often ignores or idolizes the body, how everyday practices like sleep, eating, and exercise shape our spiritual lives, and why stewardship—not vanity or neglect—is the narrow road of fitness. This episode will encourage anyone who longs to bring faith and fitness together, showing that holiness is embodied, habits matter, and God designed the body to be a teacher of the soul.

    🔑 Main Discussion Themes
    -Justin’s journey from corporate law to writing Habits of the Household
    -The untold story behind The Body Teaches the Soul
    -How CrossFit became a spiritual classroom
    -The wall vs. “one more rep”—fitness as a metaphor for grace
    -The sin spectrum of fitness: gluttony/sloth vs. envy/vanity
    -The body as a temple: neither idolized nor ignored
    -Why stewardship is the faithful middle way
    -Community, not isolation: the body of Christ and fitness
    -Grace, effort, and how physical habits reveal spiritual truths

    ⏱ Timestamped Outline
    00:00 – 05:00 | Pre-show banter: gyms, coffee, parenting, and podcasting from the garage
    05:00 – 09:30 | Justin’s background: lawyer, dad, and author of Habits of the Household
    09:30 – 13:00 | Coffee, liturgies, and scripture before phone: how small habits shape faith
    13:00 – 18:00 | Habits of the Household: why practical disciplines matter for parents
    18:00 – 25:00 | The gym as a spiritual classroom—learning “one more rep” through CrossFit
    25:00 – 32:00 | Alex’s story: from defining dad bod to embodied discipleship
    32:00 – 37:00 | The theology of body and soul integration—Genesis and beyond
    37:00 – 44:00 | Stewardship vs. neglect or idolatry: eating, sleeping, and exercising for love
    44:00 – 51:00 | Fitness and fatherhood: windows, not mirrors; what the body can do
    51:00 – 56:00 | Community as essential for transformation: faith, fitness, and fellowship
    56:00 – End | Prayer, blessing, and a call to train hard but pray harder

    🙌 Move Forward Today
    -Grab Coach Alex's devotional: Faithful Fitness – A 40-Day Devotional for Christian Health and Stewardship → https://Faithfulfitnessdevo.com
    -Join the Better Daily Community → https://betterdaily.live/invite
    -Read Justin’s books: Habits of the Household and preorder The Body Teaches the Soul
    -Practice daily liturgies: coffee with Scripture, walks with family, meals with prayer
    -See fitness as stewardship: neither idolize nor neglect your body—honor God with it
    -Don’t do it alone: find a coach, a group, or a friend to walk this road with you
    -Reframe your reflection: stop staring in the mirror—start looking out the window of your body toward love and service

    📌 Featured Guest Resources
    Justin Whitmel Earley – justinwhitmelearley.com
    Books – Habits of the Household (2021), The Body Teaches the Soul (coming October 28)

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