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Caroline Girvan is a personal trainer and fitness YouTuber based in Northern Ireland. As of July 2024, her YouTube channel has 3.19 million subscribers.^[1] Girvan's workouts are geared to women with an aim to build muscle strength, endurance, and overall fitness. Relative to other workouts directed at a general female audience, they are considered very challenging.^[2][3]

Girvan started posting workouts on YouTube in April 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, in response to a request from one of her personal training clients.^[4][5] Previously, Girvan saw clients in her living room, which doubled as a gym. She had pivoted to personal training around 2014, after working a day job in admin and accounting, citing a desire to help her fellow moms feel better about their bodies.^[6]

Girvan's channel has been noted for the depth of the free content provided, including detailed workout schedules and plans typically reserved behind paywalls.^[7] In interviews with the press, she has stated that she keeps the bulk of her material free for people of different backgrounds, and that she finds the determination to workout without traditional resources -- with, for example, concrete slabs in place of yoga blocks -- inspiring.^[4] She says her biggest following "seems to be in the USA, the UK, Germany, India and Canada."

As of January 2024, Girvan is 39 years old and has two children.