A free 6-week workbook for Christians
Most Christians are getting their instruction about health from culture, not Scripture. Temple Training is a free 6-week workbook that shows you how your faith already informs how you live in your body — and how to steward it for His glory.
"Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?" — 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NKJV)
Temple Training
Steward your health for God's glory
When I moved to Canada in 2012, I was a new Christian and completely out of shape. I wanted to make my high school basketball team, so I got disciplined and started training. Grade 11 came — and there was no basketball team that year. No tryouts. No shot. Nothing to show for the work. I kept training anyway.
Senior year, there was a team. I made it. That season taught me something dangerous: that discipline and hard work produce results you can be proud of. It wasn't wrong — but I let it become the foundation of who I was.
In 2020, I became a certified personal trainer. Then in 2021, my mental health suffered immensely. I was committed to a psychiatric hospital. What followed was five years of depression, weight gain, and a slow erosion of who I thought I was.
"At my heaviest I weighed 285 pounds. The thing I'd built my entire identity on — my fitness, my physique, my ability — was gone. And I had nothing left to stand on."
But sitting in that darkness, I came to understand something the Bible had been saying all along: my identity was never supposed to be in how I looked or what I could physically achieve. It was supposed to be in Christ alone.
I'm still a personal trainer. But what I wish someone had told me is this: your body isn't a project to perfect. It's a temple to steward. And you can't steward what you don't first understand theologically.
The mission
Most Christians are getting their instruction about their bodies from culture, not Scripture. SDG Performance exists to change that — one person at a time.
Temple Training — Free Workbook
This isn't a diet plan or a workout program. It's a six-week journey through what the Bible actually says about your body — and what that means for how you live in it every day.
Week 01
Your body is not your own
We start by dismantling the lies culture has told you about your body — and replacing them with what Scripture actually says. Your body belongs to God. That changes everything.
1 Corinthians 6:19–20 · Romans 12:1Week 02
More than what you see
Your mirror is not your identity. We work through what it means to be hidden in Christ — and how that frees you to care for your body without obsessing over it.
Colossians 3:3 · 1 Samuel 16:7Week 03
Eating as an act of worship
Not a diet. A theology of food. We cover gratitude, moderation, the danger of food becoming an idol, and practical starting points for eating in a way that honours God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 · Daniel 1:8Week 04
Training the temple
Exercise reframed — not as a project to optimize, but as worship, stewardship, and preparation for ministry. With a simple, beginner-friendly movement framework.
1 Timothy 4:7–8 · 1 Corinthians 9:27Week 05
Trusting God with recovery
Rest is an act of faith. Hustle culture has crept into the church and Christians are burning out. We cover sleep, Sabbath, and why recovery is a spiritual discipline.
Psalm 127:2 · Matthew 11:28–30Week 06
The long game
We close with resilience. Mental health, stress, and the reality that stewarding your body is a lifelong journey — not a 6-week fix — held by a faithful God.
Philippians 4:6–7 · 2 Corinthians 4:16What's inside every week
Biblical truth applied practically — in plain language, not seminary jargon.
Journaling prompts that move the teaching from your head into your actual life.
One or two practical things to do before the next week. Small moves. Real change.
A written prayer to close each week — grounding everything back in dependence on God.
This workbook is for you if...
You just haven't found a framework that takes both your faith and your body seriously at the same time.
Every January you start over. Every Monday is a new beginning. You're exhausted by your own inconsistency.
You're giving everything to everyone and there's nothing left. Your body is paying the price. Something has to give.
Every fitness resource assumes you already have habits and a plan. You need a foundation, not a program.
Sunday is for God. The gym is for you. The two never seem to meet. You want your whole life to be integrated.
Either you obsess over how you look and it's never enough, or you've checked out entirely. Neither is what God intended.
You've heard "your body is a temple" but nobody's told you what to do with that. You need more than a verse — you need a framework.
This is not for you if...
You're looking for a quick-fix diet, a shredding program, or a shortcut to aesthetics. Temple Training is not that. If your primary goal is appearance, this workbook will challenge that goal before it helps you reach it. That's intentional. We believe the goal has to change before the habits can.
A note from Joshua
I want to be honest with you. I am not writing this from the other side of a perfect transformation. I'm in the trenches with you. I gained over 75 pounds. I lost my sense of who I was. I'm still in the process of rebuilding — physically, mentally, and spiritually.
But that's exactly why I built this. I needed it. I needed someone to show me that my faith had something to say about my body — not just my soul. This workbook is my best attempt to give you what I wish I'd had. Take it, use it, and give God the glory for whatever He does through it.
— Joshua Bleppony, CPT · SDG Performance
Temple Training — Free Workbook
You don't need to be healthy to start this workbook. You don't need a gym, a plan, or a streak. You just need six weeks and the willingness to let God's Word reshape how you think about your body. That's it. Everything else follows.
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."
— Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)