{"id":290434,"date":"2026-01-18T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:06:07","slug":"bodybuilder-kali-muscle-hospitalized-after-fainting-at-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290434\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilder Kali Muscle Hospitalized After Fainting at Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Kali Muscle<br \/>\n                          Bodybuilder Hospitalized After Fainting at Gym<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              January 17, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:04 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260118_b1e02658ae844c9f9851b4a882b75f21\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3f9894fa-51be-4e15-b669-7ce5c35b01c8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b1e02658ae844c9f9851b4a882b75f21_md.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Kirkendall, instagram\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kali Muscle<\/strong> suffered a major health scare Saturday while doing what he does best &#8212; working out at the gym, TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The popular bodybuilder and YouTuber &#8212; whose real name is Chuck Kirkendall &#8212; passed out cold while exercising in a fitness center in California, his ex-wife, Dvyne Dirkendall, tells TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260118_e9cf78e6c10340aea33f3a1a1de550fb\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3f9894fa-51be-4e15-b669-7ce5c35b01c8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e9cf78e6c10340aea33f3a1a1de550fb_md.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Kirkendall, instagram 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kali was rushed to a hospital for treatment, but Dvyne tells us she doesn&#8217;t know why he fell unconscious or the status of his condition. She noted Kali previously had a heart attack and needed a stent inserted into his heart to restore blood flow.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kali has been posting on YouTube for more than 15 years and has nearly 4 million subscribers on the site, and is a fan fave on Instagram and TikTok. He&#8217;s also a personal trainer and last year, began teaching social media tips and offering coaching sessions on financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>He married his wife, <strong>Helena<\/strong>, in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kali Muscle Bodybuilder Hospitalized After Fainting at Gym Published January 17, 2026 9:04 PM PST Kali Muscle suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18,525,135,19,17,5,132,4308,33223],"class_list":{"0":"post-290434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-news","16":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115914603434462978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}