Caroline Girvan | ||||||||||
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Born | June 22, 1984 | |||||||||
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Website | carolinegirvan | |||||||||
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Years active | 2020–present | |||||||||
Genre | Fitness | |||||||||
Subscribers | 3.2 million [1] (547 million) | |||||||||
Total views | 547 million [1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: July 18, 2024 |
Caroline Girvan (born June 22, 1984) [2] [3] is a personal trainer and fitness YouTuber based in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Girvan's videos are geared towards everyone with an aim to build muscle strength and endurance.
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. [2] [4] Girvan began a business as a personal trainer around 2014, seeing clients in her home gym. She had previously worked in accounting. [5]
Girvan has said that she keeps the bulk of her material free, and that her biggest following "seems to be in the USA, the UK, Germany, India and Canada." [2] [6]
Girvan has two children. [2]
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