Jumpstart

Faithful Fitness

14 Days of Individualized Faithful Fitness Coaching

Stop guessing what your body needs.

Spend 14 days working directly with Coach Alex to evaluate where you are, personalize your training and nutrition, and build a clear plan for where you’re going next.

✓ Personalized training
✓ Daily nutrition coaching
✓ Two live coaching calls


Start My 14-Day JumpStart — $299

Personalized. Practical. Built around your actual life.

Exercise science • individualized coaching • biblical stewardship • practical execution

Information isn’t the problem anymore

You probably don’t need another program.

You can find workouts for free. Meal plans for free. Podcasts about protein, sleep, fasting, fat loss, hormones, strength, and longevity are everywhere.

You need someone qualified to look at your situation.

What applies to you? What deserves your attention first? What can your body tolerate right now? What actually fits your schedule? What should change—and what should you stop worrying about?

JumpStart closes the gap between information and application.

What happens during JumpStart?

Fourteen days of focused attention.

Before we prescribe anything, we listen. Then we coach what actually happens—not what a generic template assumes will happen.

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Live Health History + Strategy Consultation

Understand where you are before deciding where to go.

You and Coach Alex sit down together to understand the full picture before building the plan.

Health + exercise history
Current training
Nutrition patterns
Goals
Injuries + limitations
Sleep + recovery
Schedule + lifestyle
Previous wins + struggles

Days 1–14 / Personalized Exercise Coaching

Train with a plan built around you.

This isn’t “here’s a PDF—good luck.” Your training is built around your goals, available equipment, experience, limitations, and current capacity.

As the two weeks unfold, we can adjust based on what we learn about your body, schedule, recovery, and response to training.

Days 1–14 / Daily Nutrition Coaching

Don’t wonder if you’re “eating healthy.” Show me.

For two weeks, your food choices become useful coaching data. We aren’t judging isolated meals. We’re looking for patterns.

Protein
Are you eating enough to support your goals?
Nutrient Density
Is your food giving your body what it needs?
Energy Intake
Does intake match the outcome you’re pursuing?
Meal Structure
Are your meals making consistency easier?
Hydration + Recovery
Are simple gaps quietly limiting progress?
Consistency
What actually happens across the week?

We coach the pattern—not the isolated meal.

Personalized Nutrition Targets

Know your numbers—without becoming ruled by them.

We’ll establish useful calorie, protein, carbohydrate, and fat targets appropriate to your goals. The purpose isn’t lifelong obsession with tracking. It’s to help you understand what appropriate nutrition actually looks like for your body and your current objective.

Included Resource

Faithful Fitness Foundations

$27 value — included

A structured introduction to the principles underneath the Faithful Fitness approach.

Learn the principles behind the plan

Personalization tells you what to do. Foundations helps you understand why.

Training, nutrition, recovery, habits, and stewardship make more sense when you understand the principles underneath them. Foundations gives you that context without using your live coaching time to lecture you.

Day 14 / Live Debrief + Personal Health Roadmap

JumpStart doesn’t end with Day 14.
It ends with a plan.

At the end of the two weeks, we sit down again and review what actually happened—what worked, what didn’t, how your training and nutrition responded, and what deserves your attention next.

What worked
What didn’t
Training response
Nutrition patterns
Limiting factors
Next 30–90 days

“Here is what I believe your next season requires.”

Everything inside your JumpStart

Fourteen days. One individualized coaching experience.

Live Health History + Strategy Consultation
14 Days Personalized Exercise Coaching
14 Days Daily Nutrition Coaching
Personalized Macronutrient Targets
Faithful Fitness Workout Builder$99 value
Faithful Fitness Foundations$27 value
Practical Meal Planning Resources
Live Debrief + Personal Health Roadmap

$299

One payment for the full 14-day individualized experience.

Start My JumpStart

JumpStart is for you if…

You want expert eyes on your actual life.

✓ You’re overwhelmed by conflicting health advice.

✓ You exercise but aren’t sure you’re training intelligently.

✓ You want to lose fat, gain strength, improve health, or feel capable again.

✓ Your nutrition is inconsistent and you want real feedback.

✓ Generic plans haven’t fit real life.

✓ You’re considering individualized coaching and want to experience the process first.

✓ You’re ready to be coachable for 14 days.

JumpStart probably isn’t for you if…

You want a shortcut without participation.

× You’re looking for a crash diet.

× You want someone else to do the work for you.

× You aren’t willing to report your food or training honestly.

× You’re looking for medical diagnosis or treatment.

× You only want a generic workout plan.

× You’re unwilling to make reasonable changes for two weeks.

You do not need to be fit before you begin. You do need to be willing.

The Faithful Fitness difference

This isn’t about becoming obsessed with your body.
It’s about becoming more faithful with it.

Your body is not an ornament. It is not an idol. And it is not an inconvenience standing between you and the things that really matter.

It is part of how you show up for those things. We train so we can remain strong enough to serve. We eat in ways that support the work in front of us. We practice discipline because discipline forms us. And we pursue progress without forgetting Who gave us the body we’re trying to improve.

The goal isn’t optimization. It’s alignment.

Coach Alex Van Houten

Meet your coach

Coach Alex Van Houten

I’m Coach Alex—exercise scientist, health coach, author, and founder of Faithful Fitness. For more than 20 years, I’ve helped people navigate exercise, nutrition, body composition, performance, behavior change, and the messy realities that make good plans hard to execute.

My job during these 14 days isn’t to impress you with information. It’s to listen, identify the highest-leverage changes, teach you what matters, and help you leave with a plan you can trust.

Real coaching. Real people.

What clients say

“Coach Alex changed my life. With his help, I’ve dropped 50lbs. and several medications and still going strong!”

— Katie Crawford | Denton, TX

“I never thought of my health and fitness as stewardship. With Faithful Fitness, I finally understand how to meld my faith with my workouts and nutrition. That has made all the difference.”

— Laurie Prather | Greenbrier, AR

“Until Coach Alex, I never had a trainer who cared about the deeper things my body stood for. I felt truly understood by someone who cared about my health and fitness.”

— Christine Bess | Aurora, CO

Frequently asked questions

Before you begin

Is this group coaching?

No. JumpStart is an individualized coaching experience built around your goals, history, training environment, nutrition, and current circumstances.

How long does JumpStart last?

JumpStart lasts 14 days and is bookended by your live strategy consultation and your live debrief / personal health roadmap session.

Do I need a gym?

No. Your training can be built around the equipment and environment you actually have available.

Do I have to track my food?

You’ll need to provide enough information for Coach Alex to meaningfully evaluate your nutrition. He will guide you through that process starting in your initial health history call.

Is this a diet?

No. Nutrition recommendations are individualized around your goals and circumstances. The objective is to build useful, repeatable patterns—not create another short-lived crash diet.

Is this medical care?

No. JumpStart provides coaching and general education. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace appropriate medical care.

What happens after the 14 days?

You leave with an individualized next-step roadmap. If continued individualized coaching would be useful, Coach Alex can explain what that could look like, but there is no obligation to continue.

What if I’m very out of shape?

That’s okay. The point of individualized coaching is to begin from your actual capacity—not someone else’s.

What if I’m already experienced?

JumpStart can still be useful because you’re not purchasing beginner information. You’re purchasing expert eyes, feedback, personalization, and a clearer plan.

Ready to stop guessing?

What could change if you stopped guessing for 14 days?

Give me two weeks.

Let me see how you train.

Let me see how you eat.

Let me understand what you’re trying to accomplish.

And let’s build the next steps together.


Begin My 14-Day JumpStart — $299

Personalized. Practical. Built around your actual life.

Train Hard. Pray Harder.

Health disclaimer: Faithful Fitness JumpStart provides individualized coaching, general health education, exercise programming, nutrition guidance, encouragement, and stewardship support. It is not medical care and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Consult an appropriate healthcare professional regarding symptoms, medications, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, injuries, eating disorder history, pregnancy, or other health concerns before changing your exercise or nutrition practices.

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