{"id":241089,"date":"2026-01-19T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:08:09","slug":"bodybuilder-influencer-kali-muscle-hospitalized-after-fainting-at-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241089\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilder Influencer Kali Muscle Hospitalized After Fainting at Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular bodybuilder Kali Muscle was hospitalized after allegedly losing consciousness at a California gym.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/17\/bodybuilder-kali-muscle-hospitalized-after-fainting-at-gym\/?utm_sf_cserv_ref=16331010&amp;adid=social-tw&amp;utm_sf_post_ref=653936576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ<\/a> reports that Muscle, whose real name is Chuck Kirkendall, fainted while exercising at a fitness center in California, according to his ex-wife. He was allegedly rushed to the hospital to be treated, but his ex doesn\u2019t know why he fell unconscious or how he\u2019s currently doing.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that Kirkendall had a heart attack before and had to have a stent inserted into his heart to restore proper blood flow. The situation she\u2019s most likely referring to is when he shared a video announcing a heart attack in 2021. In the video, he claimed that the heart attack occurred because his left artery was fully clogged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth is everything,\u201d he stated in the video. \u201cGod is using me as an example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to heart issues, Kirkendall has admitted to dealing with edema in the past, which has caused his feet and ankles to swell due to excess fluids.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkendall is one of the most popular gym influencers on YouTube and TikTok. He\u2019s been on YouTube for more than 15 years and has nearly 4 million subscribers on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular bodybuilder Kali Muscle was hospitalized after allegedly losing consciousness at a California gym. TMZ reports that Muscle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-241089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}