I'm Eric T. Williams — founder of 517FIT, master personal trainer, life coach, author, and elder.

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But before any of that, I was the heavy kid.

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I spent my entire childhood fighting my own body and losing. And what I learned in those years is the thing most fitness programs still miss: the weight was never only physical. There was a mental weight, an emotional weight, and a spiritual weight underneath it. The enemy doesn't build strongholds in your muscles. He builds them in your mind, your memory, and your sense of who you are. That's why willpower keeps failing you. You've been fighting the wrong fight.

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I know that ground because I've walked it.

 

Thirty-one years later, I've spent my life on both sides of the equation: the science and the Scripture. Exercise physiology, program design, metabolic and nutritional coaching on one side. Twenty-four years of teaching the Word, fifteen years of life coaching, and 27 books on the other. 517FIT exists because those two things were never meant to be separate. Your training is a discipleship issue. Your discipleship has a body attached to it.

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We don't preach fitness as a religion. We preach the gospel of fitness — a life reconciled to its Source, lived out in a body you were entrusted with.. This is not ANOTHER GOSPEL, this is the Gospel Jesus preached, Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. The Gospel of Fitness teaches that God wants to be LORD over every area of our life, including our body and finances.