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Dawn Harvey, Pastor, "I felt like they needed exercise and that we needed to be in shape and that we wanted to look better and feel better."
Women exercising thier bodies at a Christian center
While these women are exercising their bodies, it's their souls that are hard at work. They meet every Monday evening at a Christian center in Maryland for an aerobics class called Gospel Fitness. And if exhaustion creeps in between sets of crunches they fight it off with praise for God and thoughts of Jesus, sometimes even the devil.
Participants tell what keeps them going on
Ice Cooper, Participant, "Sometimes I just. I can't do it any more! And the music would come up and, I can do this!" Mary Grice, Participant, "God, help us make it through it. The burning and the kicking, the more we push and the more we scream, that's what helps us get through it." More than one in three black women in the United States is obese, a number that is much higher than the national average.T
Gospel fitness trend growing in the United States
Dawn Harvey, Pastor, "I felt like they needed exercise and that we needed to be in shape and that we wanted to look better and feel better."

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