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Rhea Graham is not your average content creator. With a powerful physique and a penchant for heavy lifting, she looks every inch the fitness influencer. Yet her page isn’t quite what you’d expect from someone who bench presses 55 kilos “for bants”. Amid the gym vlogs and the modelling shoots, Graham uses her platform primarily to talk about her Christian faith. “Both my faith in the Lord and my health and wellness are formed by discipline,” she writes, accompanying a video montage of endless perfect pull-ups. “They require both discipline and grace.”
Graham, a 25-year-old Londoner, is far from alone. TikTok and Instagram are now bulging with Christian “fitfluencers”, not least Graham’s friend @veryvalerie, who mixes “thicker thigh supersets” with reels about the “grace of the Lord”. We’re also seeing a “Gym Bro Revival” on Christian blogs and forums, something even non-believers are noticing. “Why does fitness culture skew so HEAVILY Christian?” laments one Reddit thread.
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Graham, a 25-year-old Londoner, is far from alone. TikTok and Instagram are now bulging with Christian “fitfluencers”, not least Graham’s friend @veryvalerie, who mixes “thicker thigh supersets” with reels about the “grace of the Lord”. We’re also seeing a “Gym Bro Revival” on Christian blogs and forums, something even non-believers are noticing. “Why does fitness culture skew so HEAVILY Christian?” laments one Reddit thread.
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The return of Muscular Christianity
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