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Mar 12

Fitness for body and soul: Ex-El Pasoan creates faith-based workout PrayFit

Jimmy Pea has always been very athletic.

He has also always been very religious.

Pea grew up in a very active, sports-minded El Paso home. He played football for the West Side Mustangs and baseball at Coronado High School, and he even walked on and tried out for the Baylor University baseball team.

He had no problem wearing his faith on his sleeve.

"In the eighth grade I started going to Cielo Vista Baptist Church (now Cielo Vista Church), and that's when I got serious about faith and serving God and committing my life to the Lord," Pea said.

Now living in Los Angeles, Pea is an exercise physiologist who works with Tyler Perry and has worked with Mario Lopez and LL Cool J.

He has combined prayer and exercise to create PrayFit, a 33-day workout designed to burn calories, build muscle and bolster faith.

"There is nothing in our lives that isn't affected by our health," Pea said. "Our heart is most important, but our body gets our spirit to where it needs to go. Our bodies have no right to hold that back."

Pea developed PrayFit with the help of a friend and fitness writer, Eric Velazquez. It includes daily inspirational emails and fitness tips, a PrayFit team of exercise and nutrition professionals, and individual workouts.

"When you look at a gymnast or a dancer, they have phenomenal physiques because they've learned how to manage and manipulate their own body weight," Pea said. "I designed the first DVD as a body-weight-only program so a beginner,

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