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Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt on Faith, Fitness & Taylor Swift\u2019s Wedding | The Riley Gaines Show<\/a> <\/p>\n

Gracie Hunt joins The Riley Gaines Show for a wide-ranging conversation on faith, fitness, football, and the next chapter of her life. Gracie opens up about her surprise engagement to Derek, why they pursued marriage counseling before getting engaged, and how faith shapes their future marriage. She also shares how sports shaped her identity, why strength training is now the foundation of her fitness routine, and how living with celiac disease influences the way she thinks about food and wellness. Riley and Gracie discuss growing up in the Kansas City Chiefs family, the impact of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on young female football fans, and what it was like attending Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding. Plus, Gracie shares the Christian AI work, children\u2019s stories, and women\u2019s devotional she\u2019s building next. New episodes of The Riley Gaines Show release every Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt recently opened up about her health philosophy on “The Riley Gaines Show,”<\/a> revealing that heavy strength training and a simple approach to nutrition keep her energized and confident.<\/p>\n

Speaking on a recent episode of the podcast, the former Miss Kansas USA and marathon runner dispelled misconceptions around women’s fitness<\/a> \u2014 specifically the belief that lifting heavy weights leads to a bulky physique.<\/p>\n

“There’s so much misconception out there that if you lift weights, you’re going to be bulky and big,” Hunt told host and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines. “That is not how it works.”<\/p>\n

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Hunt said that over the past three years, her routine<\/a> has changed significantly, as she stepped back from long-distance running to focus more on heavy strength training.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt recently opened up about her health philosophy on “The Riley Gaines Show,” revealing that heavy strength training and a simple approach to nutrition keep her energized and confident. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“When you have enough muscle, you can sustain a healthy diet<\/a> with lots of variety,” the former pageant queen noted, adding that building muscle eliminates the need to track every calorie or macronutrient.<\/p>\n

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Instead of relying on meal tracking, Hunt said she applies a sort of litmus test to determine whether a food fits into her clean-eating lifestyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If I was a farmer, could I grow this or make this?” she asks herself. “If I don’t know how to make it, maybe I shouldn’t eat it.”<\/p>\n

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Hunt emphasized that heavy strength training will not make women “bulky,” but instead builds metabolic health and allows for a more varied, flexible diet. (iStock)<\/p>\n

Hunt’s passion for physical fitness began early in life, she told Gaines. Originally, she planned to go into competitive soccer, but her athletic trajectory changed after she suffered multiple concussions. The injuries forced her to pivot away from soccer into pageantry, marathons and strength training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on her shift away from competitive team sports, the football heiress emphasized how physical activity shaped her self-image and mental resilience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Sports empower women,” Hunt said. “They teach you how to be healthy and also to not attach health and wellness<\/a> to how you look and to vanity. It’s more about, ‘Am I healthy? How can I perform?'”<\/p>\n

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Hunt (not pictured) said she relies on a simple rule instead of counting calories or macros: If she could not grow or make a food herself as a farmer, she avoids eating it. (iStock)<\/p>\n

She said she believes that physical strength fosters body confidence, regardless of societal standards.<\/p>\n

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“I’m strong. So even if I don’t look like what society idolizes as beauty, I’m confident in my skin because I know I’m strong.”<\/p>\n

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A series of concussions cut short Hunt’s competitive soccer career, pushing her to redefine her physical identity through pageantry, marathon running and weightlifting, she shared. (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

For women seeking a healthy, strength-focused routine, Hunt recommends building workouts around consistent weightlifting, balanced with high-intensity interval training<\/a> (HIIT) and a favorite form of cardio, whether that’s hiking, walking or trail running.<\/p>\n

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Above all, physical fitness should be viewed as a long-term lifestyle aimed at overall well-being, not just a quick goal to hit, according to Hunt.<\/p>\n

“Fitness isn’t about reaching a certain aesthetic and calling it a day \u2014 it’s about pursuing a life where you can be your best for everyone else around you,” she said. “Find something that you love and can do for life.”<\/p>\n

Khloe Quill is a lifestyle<\/a> writer with Fox News Digital. She and the lifestyle team cover a range of story topics including food and drink, travel, and health.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt on Faith, Fitness & Taylor Swift\u2019s Wedding | The Riley Gaines Show Gracie Hunt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,17740,13898,6636,84543,244421,56,54,55,13963],"class_list":["post-738962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy-living","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nutrition","tag-nutrition-and-fitness","tag-riley-gaines-podcast","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}