The God of Endurance: A Practical Guide for Incorporating Exercise and Nutrition Into Your Spiritual Journey

Contemporary efforts toward fitness are, by and large, rooted in vanity and self-interest. Here, however, authors Dan Burke and Chase Crouse reveal how your physical well-being can help energize your spiritual life and empower you to offer a more complete self-gift to God and others. 

In this practical guide inspired by St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and the evidence-based benefits of good health, you will discover how fitness and wholesome nutrition assist you in elevating and intensifying your journey to Christ. You will discover how to:

• Reject the enemy’s lies that harm your life and forge a plan to move toward wellness
• Implement a health and fitness plan with measurable goals, regardless of your age, state in life, or current health
• Lose fat and build muscle through achievable exercises and simple, sustainable workouts
• Create a healthy diet that you can realistically maintain (by adding, not subtracting!)
• Grow in asceticism (self-denial) to strengthen yourself in the pursuit of holiness in your vocation
• Optimize your sleep by creating a schedule that helps you wind down so you awaken refreshed and renewed

The authors’ goal is to help you develop a personalized plan that you will enjoy following regularly, as opposed to fad workouts that you will abandon. They also include a list of additional high-value resources for enhancing the spiritual, nutritional, and fitness strategies you devise. 

In the words of St. John Paul II, “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” With this invaluable book, the road to a healthier, happier, and more fulfilled you begins now. 

Dan Burke is the founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation (Avila-Institute.org), which offers formation in three seminaries, along with graduate and personal enrichment studies in spiritual theology to priests, deacons, religious, and laity in more than ninety countries and prepares men for seminary in more than a hundred dioceses. He also founded SpiritualDirection.com, the largest website (in English) in the world dedicated to re-proposing Catholic mystical tradition. He is a bestselling author and editor of numerous books on authentic Catholic spirituality and with his wife, Stephanie, hosts the Divine Intimacy podcast, which broadcasts weekly on EWTN Radio. In his deep commitment to the advancement of faithful Catholic spirituality, he is also the founder of Apostoli Viae (ApostoliViae.org), an over four-thousand-member worldwide private association of the faithful dedicated to living, lighting and leading the way to contemplation in the heart

Chase Crouse's life took a pivotal turn in 2012 when he experienced a profound reversion of faith. Soon after, he joined NET Ministries as a missionary from 2012 to 2014, a period that sparked immense personal growth. Building on this foundation, he earned a bachelor's and master's in biblical theology from John Paul the Great Catholic University.Following his studies, he and his wife moved to New York where he found a calling to integrate Theology of the Body with fitness. As a husband and father of three, he understands firsthand the importance of nurturing both body and spirit.He is a Certified Personal Trainer (NASM), Functional Fitness Specialist (ACE), Nutrition Coach, and Change Psychology Specialist (PN1). Through his program, Hypuro Fit, he combines his spiritual, intellectual, and physical expertise to inspire others to embrace self-gift and personal growth.